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  • 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 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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  • The Car Next Door: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer Social Innovation

    A conversation with WhipCar founder Vinay Gupta

    07 Apr 2011 – Conversation

    SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun chats with Vinay Gupta, founder of WhipCar, about the opportunity to exploit 'idle assets', like your neighbor's car.

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  • Issue Brief: Climate Change and Global Health

    The Role for Business

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    An overview of the health-related challenges posed by climate change, with a number of inspiring examples of how the private sector can contribute products, services and expertise to help tackle these challenges.

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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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  • Switch to the Fast Lane (Director)

    31 Dec 2008 – Article

    Today's business students set tomorrow's ground rules.

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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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  • We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For (Nikkei Ecology)

    Entrepreneurship and strategic alliances in the electrification of transport

    11 Nov 2008 – Article

    If the business of business is business, it is also to build future markets. One opportunity space attracting growing interest focuses on low-carbon cars.

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  • Finance, Politics, Climate: Three Crises in One (openDemocracy)

    17 Oct 2008 – Article

    The breakdown of the global financial system highlights the need for a change in ways of thinking as well as strategic direction, say John Elkington & Mark Lee.

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