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Businesses will stick to the status quo whatever the disastrous consequences unless we build a credible sustainability vision Via Willy De Backer 
Willy De Backer's curator insight,
April 13, 5:06 AM
Excellent article by Jo Cofino of the Guardian underlining the need for the sustainability movement to stop analysing and start doing.
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April 13, 5:08 AM
"To create the pathway for fundamental change, it is therefore vital that we mainstream a credible vision of a prosperous future within planetary boundaries, but the sustainability movement has so far failed to do this." - so correct! 
Antoine Moore's comment,
April 16, 8:47 AM
To me the most salient statement of this article was this: Standing back from the whole sustainability debate, the sense I have is that before we can come up with a credible future vision, we must firstly let go of our egoic need to be in control and be right. The paradox is that only by embracing uncertainty, will the way forward start to manifest." Business leaders have to become more comfortable with uncertainty and not knowing upfront the way forward which presumably might also suggest the possibility of not acting but rather sensing into the storyline unfolding in the field of one's experience.
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A new report by Ceres shows that oil and gas companies are not doing enough to manage offshore drilling risks and disclose their efforts to investors.
Forbes is one of the few media paying attention to this interesting new report on offshore and Arctic drilling for oil and gas. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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"Financial-market reform has fallen far short of securing the sector’s resilience, let alone driving investment in the technology, energy systems, infrastructure, and business models needed to develop a sustainable world economy."
Good article in Project Syndicate by sustainability expert Simon Zadek on the need to tackle the financial sector. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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Many of the country’s leading companies have taken contradictory actions when it comes to climate change science while pumping a tremendous amount of resources into influencing the discussion, according to an analysis released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
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"A new report from oekom research, a German research firm, shows that many oil and gas companies are failing to keep up with sustainability management as they look to open up new oil reserves."
The only priority for fossil fuel companies are "sustainable" profits. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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Ensuring that banks are boring may prove to be a key element of a new business model for the banking sector, enabling the sector to re-establish its ethical framework and focus financing on sustainability.
Good article on the future of banking and the financial sector in Forbes. Title is misleading in my view: what is boring about working for real value and the real economy? Via Willy De Backer 
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Having boring associated with ethical and sustainable in same sentence creates, in my humble opinion, a link that I find not very sound, unless you'd find unethical and unsustainable exciting.
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If Shared Value is to offer real, long term transformation it must address the flaws of capitalism, look beyond incrementalism and not just align commercial and societal goals, says John Elkington...
Good critique by sustainable business expert Elkington of the Shared Value approach developed by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer. But Elkington's own "triple bottom line" is as flawed as Porter's. Both of them do not put "ecological limits" at the heart of the transformational agenda. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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"The ideas for creating a new and sustainable finance system are out there. If this thinking doesn't get greater exposure to policy makers and the media, the world of finance will remain a barrier to social and environmental progress."
Good analysis by Chris Hewett on the Open Democracy site. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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