Bill Baue

[From the press release] Companies are failing to accurately reflect the scale and extent of their environmental impacts, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found.

In the case of greenhouse gas emissions, only 9 out of 108 (8 per cent) surveyed companies have established reduction targets in accordance with the science-based target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius - the central goal of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change… Show more

[From the press release] Companies are failing to accurately reflect the scale and extent of their environmental impacts, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found.

In the case of greenhouse gas emissions, only 9 out of 108 (8 per cent) surveyed companies have established reduction targets in accordance with the science-based target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius - the central goal of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, December 2015.

Launched today at the Reporting 3.0 Conference in Berlin, Germany, the report, Raising the Bar - Advancing Environmental Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting, calls on companies to do more to address the environmental and social impacts of their operations, as required in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Show less

Net Positive is an emerging concept and practice in corporate sustainability that is inspiring companies to transform their business models to design negative social and environmental impacts out of their products and processes, while simultaneously optimizing positive social and environmental impacts. As this movement burgeons globally, key players in the ecosystem convened a virtual dialogue over 5 days in early September 2015 to discuss key challenges and opportunities for further building… Show more

Net Positive is an emerging concept and practice in corporate sustainability that is inspiring companies to transform their business models to design negative social and environmental impacts out of their products and processes, while simultaneously optimizing positive social and environmental impacts. As this movement burgeons globally, key players in the ecosystem convened a virtual dialogue over 5 days in early September 2015 to discuss key challenges and opportunities for further building the movement. As part of a new joint offering of Sustainable Brands and Convetit, Co-Curators Bill Baue and Ralph Thurm facilitated this dialogue in a digital ThinkTank and then distilled the key takeaways into this eBook.

"This weeklong virtual dialogue on Convetit helped connect that community across time and space in ways that are difficult if not impossible to achieve using traditional methods,” wrote Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability & Stewardship at The Crown Estate in the Foreword. "And the digital ThinkTank engendered a robust dialogue and healthy debate on how best to advance the concept and practice of Net Positive. This emerging practice of online engagement pulled together diverse players with passionate perspectives that resulted in synergistic learnings that fueled forward momentum of the Net Positive Movement.” Show less

A Leader's Guide to ThriveAbility is a field manual for Executives, Investors, Change Agents, Policymakers and future generations. The research and fieldwork we’ve conducted with leaders across every industry sector and civil society has led us to the inescapable conclusion that if we wish to reinvent capitalism, we need to reinvent capital and the organizations that generate and apply that capital. How can you, as a leader, use ThriveAbility to build a vibrant future for your organization or… Show more

A Leader's Guide to ThriveAbility is a field manual for Executives, Investors, Change Agents, Policymakers and future generations. The research and fieldwork we’ve conducted with leaders across every industry sector and civil society has led us to the inescapable conclusion that if we wish to reinvent capitalism, we need to reinvent capital and the organizations that generate and apply that capital. How can you, as a leader, use ThriveAbility to build a vibrant future for your organization or business as part of a ThriveAble world? Some of the key questions that you will need to grapple with include: 1. What are the unique capabilities needed to maximise the thriving of my organization and its stakeholders for the smallest footprint? 2. Which innovation pathways can deliver the improvements and breakthroughs needed to deliver enhanced ThriveAbility to all our stakeholders? 3. How can we measure True Value in everything we do? 4. How can we get our organization to begin the ThriveAbility Journey? 5. In what ways can advantages in 1-4 above be translated into competitive advantage versus other organizations that are not on the ThriveAbility Journey? ThriveAbility is descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive- it describes the emerging edge of leading practice in strategy, innovation, sustainability and design, while prescribing an approach which includes an equation, decision framework, process and ThriveAbility Index. ThriveAbility is predictive in the sense that it enables us to calculate the costs and benefits of different options and trade-offs in the design, development and scaling of new products, services and experiences, along with the human and social transformations needed to achieve ThriveAbility. Show less

Thought leaders in the field are now talking about next-generation goals, leapfrog goals, end-zone goals, context-based goals, science-based goals, reality-based goals... in a word, goals that catapult past business-as-usual, squarely into the realm of true sustainability or even past that, to regeneration or "net positive" impacts. This e-book compiles 10 dialogues conducted by Bill Baue with the likes of Allen White of Tellus Institute, Bob Willard of Sustainability Advantage, "Big Pivot"… Show more

Thought leaders in the field are now talking about next-generation goals, leapfrog goals, end-zone goals, context-based goals, science-based goals, reality-based goals... in a word, goals that catapult past business-as-usual, squarely into the realm of true sustainability or even past that, to regeneration or "net positive" impacts. This e-book compiles 10 dialogues conducted by Bill Baue with the likes of Allen White of Tellus Institute, Bob Willard of Sustainability Advantage, "Big Pivot" author Andrew Winston, Emma Stewart of Autodesk, Gretchen Hancock of GE, Mark McElroy of the Center for Sustainable Organizations, and others. Show less

The world's first context-based assessment of corporate carbon footprints compared to scientific climate thresholds.