Climate Change Policy Options: Beyond Kyoto

A GlobeScan / SustainAbility Survey

09 May 2012 – Report

Real action on the cost of emissions is an essential part of long-term strategy post Kyoto according to our latest survey.

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The Inescapability of Traceability

Is Big Oil Next?

05 Dec 2011 – Report

Growing interest in supply chain traceability is set to become a major aspect of corporate sustainability - and is likely to affect an unsuspecting oil industry.

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Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance

Results from The Sustainability Survey

19 Sep 2011 – Report

What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?

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Appetite for Change

Reinventing the Global Food System

23 Jun 2011 – Report

Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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The Future of Energy

Findings from The Sustainability Survey

08 Jun 2011 – Audio/Video

Jeff Erikson interprets the latest survey on the future of energy – examining how governments will proceed, how experts perceive nuclear and what role energy will play in corporate sustainability strategies in the wake of Fukushima Daiichi.

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The Great Disruption

A conversation with Paul Gilding

10 May 2011 – Conversation

Frances Buckingham speaks with Paul Gilding about his new book and his optimism for humanity's ability to successfully navigate, and be better off on the other side of, the Great Disruption.

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Ocean Assault

An Interview with Caroline Chisholm of Earthwatch

09 Sep 2010 – Conversation

One way to raise awareness of the effects of climate change and pollution on the world’s oceans is to dive right in and find out for yourself.

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Issue Brief: Distributed Generation

Taking Control of the Power

10 Aug 2010 – Article

Recent changes in technology and regulations, and an increasing concern over the environmental impacts of large-scale power plants, have driven new interest – and investment – in distributed generation.

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Two Degrees Is Too Much

08 Oct 2009 – Article

With the clock ticking as we approach COP 15 in Copenhagen, Gary Kendall explains why the 2°C threshold for dangerous climate change is so important.

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Our Number's Up and It's 350

08 Oct 2009 – Conversation

John Elkington talks to Bill McKibben, the man behind 350.org, the global campaign on climate change.

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Peak Oil: Why $40 Per Barrel Is No Cause for Complacency

22 Feb 2009 – Article

Gary Kendall, Executive Director of SustainAbility, and David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock, on why peak oil still deserves attention even as global oil prices retreat due to recession.

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2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

15 Jan 2009 – Article

2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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The Future of Oil (China Dialogue)

11 Nov 2008 – Article

New market dynamics created by climate change, geological and geopolitical pressures will transform our hydrocarbon economies, write John Elkington and Gary Kendall.

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Get Used to Virtual Burgers (Director)

30 Oct 2008 – Article

Water shortage is no longer a virtual problem.

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Repowering the World (Director)

30 Sep 2008 – Article

The US must reinvent.

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