It is enabling more people to engage, on more issues, more often - essential as we try to accelerate the sharing of ideas and knowledge on how to address the biggest sustainability challenges facing the business world Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks & Spencer Making business sustainable is challenging.
Water courses through many of Brazil's biggest sustainability challenges.
Grappling with economic inequality, climate change and other big sustainability challenges on the horizon makes business sense, says Laura Gitman, vice president of advisory services for consultancy BSR.
Arguably, the project's biggest sustainability benefit is the opportunity it gives to Chicagoans to get outside, get healthy and, above all, get back in touch with the river running through the heart of their city.
Today, we're launching a new series to examine how the BRICs – and the countries they influence – perceive and respond to their biggest sustainability challenges, such as energy, water, climate change and human rights.
It will explore the ways system innovation has been used to create large-scale change outside of the business world and apply these lessons to empower companies to help solve big sustainability issues.
With its rainforest, favelas and megacities, Brazil is a huge piece of the puzzle for many of the world's biggest sustainability goals, and the country has loomed large in environmental discussions since it held the Rio+20 climate talks in 2012.
By doing so, they just might have provided us with a roadmap for success in many of the other big sustainability battles that lie ahead.
But only Wal-Mart has built tools of scale like the Sustainable Value Networks (bringing together partners in the value chain to work on big sustainability issues) and the packaging scorecard it made everyone fill out; and only Wal-Mart has gotten so involved in the sourcing choices of its suppliers.
Big, bold sustainability commitments might grab headlines, but is it more effective to first foster an internal environment where sustainability is given precedence?
