Esty Environmental Partners and Monitor Group host timely webcast, Sustainability: Successful Strategies for 'The New Normal'
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Governments around the world are moving to impose limits on carbon dioxide emissions while seeking to mitigate the economic, political and social costs of such limits. Rapidly rising urban populations in developing countries are leading to volatility in global supply of raw materials. Driven by heightened environmental awareness, consumers are evaluating the “green value” of all manner of goods and services (and by extension, the social acceptability of company brands and associations). All the while, NGOs are entering into strategic alliances with industry, and companies like Wal-Mart are forcing their value chains to adopt sustainable business practices, pushing the costs of ‘compliance’ upstream.
The changes, both sweeping and subtle, collectively add up to a New Normal, that is dramatically impacting competitiveness by changing the way consumers behave, the operating environment regulators are creating for enterprises and the availability and economics of key factors of production. In this webcast, Dan Esty, along with Monitor's Eamonn Kelly and Bob Lurie, explain how sustainability can be a core part of future success.
MODERATOR:
Eamonn Kelly
Eamonn Kelly is a Partner of Monitor Group and leads the firm’s thought leadership and networking activities. For the last 10 years, he served as CEO and President of Global Business Network, where he was central to sustaining GBN’s thought leadership for mastering change and uncertainty. Mr. Kelly is the author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World and the co-author of What’s Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business
SPEAKERS:
Professor Dan Esty
Professor Dan Esty is Chairman of Esty Environmental Partners and director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. He is the co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. His recent research interests concentrate on innovation and environment, global administrative law, data-driven environmental decision-making, environmental governance, corporate environmental strategy, and environmental protection in the information age.
Bob Lurie
Bob Lurie, is Co-Managing Partner of Monitor. He consults to clients in a wide range of industries (materials, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods) on their core competitive, commercial, and innovation issues. Prior to joining Monitor in 1985, he was an assistant professor of economics at Brandeis University and a staff consultant on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors where his work concerned the economic effects of environmental and economic regulation.