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David Cooperrider & Audrey Selian 's insight:
Pioneer n. A person or group that originates a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development. (Merriam-Webster)
Pioneer n. An innovator. (American Heritage)
Becoming the first blue-chip company to give investors a say on its climate strategy, Unilever’s Board, in a truly pioneering act, announced in December that it will put the company’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a shareholder vote, a move consistent with their decades-long leadership by example in corporate social responsibility. Shareholders will vote at the May 5 annual meeting on measures like cutting emissions in its operations and through its value chain to net zero by 2030, and cutting the environmental impact of its products by half. The $120 billion giant – makers of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Lipton tea, and Hellmann’s mayonnaise – also plans to cut emissions from product sourcing through point of sale to net zero by 2039, 11 years ahead of the Paris Accord deadline.
This kind of courageous and business strengthening positioning has, as this article shares, been in the works for many years.
When I interviewed Paul Polman a few months ago--Paul is currently Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and former CEO of Unilever--he spoke with urgency as well as with decades of delivering high purpose business outperformance. He spoke about the “shifting of the tectonic plates”—not a small step but a giant leap—from our industrial age paradigm of business to its successor. He asserted: "What we are witnessing is a shift that is all-embracing, rapid, irreversible, extending to the far corners of the planet and involving practically every aspect of business life. What we are witnessing is a world increasingly divided by companies that are known as part of the problem and those that are leading the solution revolution in this, the era of massive mobilization."
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