Sustainability trends businesses must watch in 2025
IMD experts list the key themes they believe will shape business goals over the coming 12 months, ranging from competition for green talent to a move to scale sustainability efforts and recast...
April 23, 2025 • by Karl Schmedders in Climate • 5 min read
CFOs must drive a financially disciplined way to manage environmental risks amid growing pushback against environmental sustainability efforts, explains IMD’s Karl Schmedders....
Continue readingDecember 27, 2024 • by Natalia Olynec in Climate • 15 min read
IMD experts list the key themes they believe will shape business goals over the coming 12 months, ranging from competition for green talent to a move to scale sustainability efforts and recast...
September 16, 2024 • by André Brotto in Climate • 5 min read
The BRICS economic grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are sitting in the catbird seat as the world’s wealthiest nations spend billions of dollars to transition their economies away...
October 12, 2023 • by Arturo Bris in Climate • 6 min read
To achieve this delicate equilibrium, the bank should be implementing governance reforms, carefully managing the transition to cleaner energy sources, and adopting a market-driven approach to financing and investment....
October 6, 2023 • by Vanina Farber in Climate • 8 min read
As the existential threat to human survival becomes ever starker, what will it take to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to tackle the climate, nature and social crises?...
April 11, 2023 • by Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff, Alexander Schmidt in Climate • 8 min read
Europe is about to implement a major change in the reporting standards and requirements for carbon as part of the European Green Deal. These changes will require more companies to account for...
November 26, 2021 • by Karl Schmedders in Climate • 5 min read
The world is more focused than ever on the measures needed to limit climate change and deal with its consequences, but the social impact of these measures — on people's jobs, livelihoods...
September 20, 2021 • by Eva Zabey in Climate • 7 min read
The destruction of natural ecosystems poses major risks for businesses and could wipe $10 trillion from the global economy. The time to act is running out....
September 16, 2021 • by David Bach in Climate • 1 min read • Podcast available
Zurich Zoo director Severin Dressen explains how his organization is being proactive in tackling the loss of biodiversity and helping to shape a sustainable coexistence between humans and nature...
September 14, 2021 • by Karl Schmedders, Rick Van der Ploeg in Climate • 5 min read
Those who argue that climate change has little to do with macroprudential risk management are offering a counsel of despair. If the 2008 global financial crisis revealed anything, it is that regulation...
July 8, 2021 • by Natalia Olynec in Climate • 4 min read
In Asia, economic growth comes at a high carbon cost. CFOs have a critical role to play in making their companies take account of sustainability, says Natalia Olynec....
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