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China: the path to responsible business and sustainable growth
In an op-ed to The Guardian, CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek writes that "responsible, green business practice is a pre-condition for China's domestic stability, its moral mandate as an emerging super-power, and hopes for a more sustainable global economy that is currently in environmental freefall."
Searching for Disruption, Sustainability and Transformation at Davos
Heads of state and leading figures from business and academia gather this week in Davos, Switzerland to “shape global, regional and industry agendas,” as part of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting. With this year’s conference entitled "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models," we talk to WEF Sustainability Adviser and CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek on what the forum’s unique composition can offer in terms of economic recovery and a move toward green growth.
Dear Mr Wolf… Reflections for the Magic Mountain
CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek asks: Can Davos 2012 offer real alternatives or will it serve up a smiling, gritted-teeth espousal that "business as usual" can and should be sustained?
2012: the year of the unreasonable
"Time will tell whether 2012 will be a disaster on the scale that Lagarde predicts, and let's hope not. But, as predictions go, one cannot go far wrong in saying that 2012 is going to be ghastly for, quite literally, hundreds of millions of people," warns CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek.
In austere times, world needs a climate change 'Plan B'
"What's needed is a Plan B that gets us beyond having to choose between the unlikely and the insufficient. It has to address the problem at scale, rapidly," CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek argues in making the case for green, inclusive economies.
Time for progressive companies to deal with the climate change bad guys
In a recent piece to The Guardian, CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek says that “chief executives with business models in mind or practice that can profit from inclusive, environmentally bounded markets should focus post-Durban on what to do about their backward-looking peers.”
Durban climate talks: there is a feasible plan B to combat climate change
"New [climate] financing mechanisms must be close to the ground, and focus on mobilizing lighthouse initiatives with mutual interest driving international co-operation," writes Simon Zadek ahead of COP 17 in Durban, South Africa.
Financial Transactions Tax, RIP
Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek explores three of the main arguments a possible financial transaction tax.
China's Outward Investment Is Our Future
"If China's trade surplus has to date symbolized its emerging place in the international economy, then the next decade's symbolic and practical focus will be its surging outward investment," CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek writes.
#OccupyWallStreet Proposals Add Up
"Occupy Wall Street's proposed list of eight demands is a work-in-progress developed through the best 'open innovation' process that money can't buy," writes CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek