Truth And Dare: Business Leadership in the Age of Climate Change (#21): Andrew Winston

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“Every sector has to realize that climate change is a threat to them. There is no business in a dying planet or a city that is flooded.” – Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston is an expert in helping business leaders navigate global megatrends and build thriving, sustainable companies. Andrew is the author of Green to Gold, which became the top-selling green business title of the past decade. He is also the author of The Big Pivot, which was selected as one of the Best Business Books by Strategy+Business magazine. As founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, Andrew is a sought-after speaker and has worked with companies such as 3M, HP, DuPont, Unilever, Marriott, PepsiCo, and others. His views have been quoted in CNBC, New York Times, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale, an MBA from Columbia, and a BA in Economics from Princeton.

Andrew joins me today to discuss business leadership in the age of climate change. He shares five ways that companies can act to drive sustainability, reduce carbon emissions, and exhibit climate leadership. Andrew highlights the conflicts between short-term profit and growth and sustainability. He discusses the moral and business logic behind changing policies now and how companies can empower employees and stakeholders to be activists. Andrew also shares how companies can leverage their purchasing power and rethink their investment models to make a positive impact on climate change.

This week on The Last Environmentalist Podcast:

• Corporate tension between short-term profit growth and sustainability
• Why companies must use their political influence to drive policy change
• How employees are pressuring companies to do more on climate change
• The business logic and moral logic to adopting policies today
• Rising costs in the supply chain from the effects of climate change
• How companies are helping employees become climate change activists
• The challenges of customer consumption for growth-driven companies
• How companies can use their purchasing power to drive sustainability
• Rethinking investment models to consider low carbon and sustainability
• Voting for people in power who will do great things on climate change

Connect with Andrew Winston:

• Andrew Winston’s website
• Andrew Winston’s books
• Andrew Winston on LinkedIn

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