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Global Sustainability video, 3rd June 2013 Visit the Huffington Post website “I have long been deeply concerned about the effect our modern, highly industrialised approach is having on nature’s capacity to sustain life on Earth. There is a growing set of alarming problems which, if not addressed with real urgency, will severely affect nature’s capacity [...]

“Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20) that “accountants would save the world.” But I meant it. To get all businesses involved in solving the world’s toughest problems, we must change the accounting rules.” Read more here Accountants Will [...]

Journal of Accountancy, 8th February 2013. Read more

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Insight magazine, Feburary 2013. Read more

“It’s intriguing that two of the most outspoken CEOs on the big issues of our day are both former chief financial officers (CFOs). They are Unilever CEO Paul Polman, a former CFO at Nestlé, and Peter Bakker, now President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), who previously was CFO and then CEO [...]

“Prince Charles’ think-tank, A4S or “The Prince’s Accounting For Sustainability Project”, recently published an insightful new report called “Future Proofed Decision Making” critiquing the state of CSR. A4S found that firms were not “Future Proofing” rapidly enough – that is to say they were not turning CSR into a principal business activity such as finance, [...]