"I came in and recognized that the largest opportunity from a financial end and sustainability end was to secure a marquee deal," said Alisha Valavanis, Storm President and General Manager, who joined the front office in 2014.
Toward this end, corporate sustainability ratings must focus on what really matters, not just quantity of corporate ESG disclosure, but quality and materiality.
In the end, the Sustainability Framework played maybe its most important role as a tool for engagement of and negotiation between local stakeholders.
Over 80% of gardens visited for this assessment were still functioning one year after the program ended, suggesting sustainability of program benefits among the majority of participant communities.
Phung, who recently completed her first year at Yale, said the competition offered a valuable opportunity to learn about Nespresso's end-to-end approach to sustainability and to help develop solutions that address the company's heightened commitments.
To that end, PepsiCo's sustainability team reaches out across its value chain, including suppliers, to find new ways for more efficient water use; and the company works with charities to ensure the communities in which it operates have adequate access to fresh water.
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Barber, who has won numerous awards for his cuisine, says that if the farm-to-table movement is to truly support sustainability, end the rise of monocultures, and produce delicious food, it's the table that must support the farm, not the other way around.
The question is, how did environmental sustainability end up making such good business sense?
And in the end, our very sustainability.
