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The Green Executive Corporate Leadership in a Low Carbon Economy

By: Gareth Kane
271 pages, b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Routledge
The Green Executive
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About this book

Over the last five years, the corporate sustainability debate has shifted from one of compliance to one of strategic competitive advantage. Accordingly, responsibility for environmental and sustainability issues has risen from management functions to director level executives.

"The Green Executive" provides everything you need to know to develop a winning sustainability strategy and the leadership skills you require to implement that strategy. The first part of the book explores the business case for action taking into consideration opportunities, threats of inaction, risks of action and the ethical dimension. This is followed by an overview of global environmental problems, including the big three: climate change, resource depletion and toxic materials, and global solutions - including eco-efficiency and industrial ecology. The third part translates these large scale solutions into practical actions for a single business ranging from simple housekeeping measures through to innovative business models. The final, crucial part introduces the sustainability maturity model and provides an insight into how the highest level of that model can be achieved.

A range of personal views is provided in the form of eighteen exclusive interviews with senior level executives from a wide range of sectors including retail, transport, manufacturing, logistics and the service sector, from small businesses through to international giants like Canon, BT, Marks & Spencer, National Express and GlaxoSmithKline.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Why Do It: Understanding the Business Case
1. Doing Nothing is not an Option
2. Green Business Opportunities
3. The Moral Imperative
4. Green Business Risks

Part 2: The Global Context
5. Global Problems
6. Global Solutions
7. Visions of a Sustainable Economy

Part 3: Green Business Techniques
8. Outreach
9. Good Housekeeping
10. Greener Operations
11. Greening the Supply Chain
12. Greener Product Portfolio
13. Innovative Business Models

Part 4: Making it Happen
14. Embedding Sustainability
15. Leadership
16. Strategy
17. Mobilising Stakeholders Stakeholders
18. Management

Conclusions: Bringing it all Together

Annex: New and Emerging Green Markets

Customer Reviews

Biography

Gareth Kane is the author of "The Three Secrets of Green Business" (Earthscan 2009). An environmental consultant, he has worked with hundreds of organizations to improve their environmental performance. He has appeared as a media pundit on sustainability issues on the BBC Six O'Clock News, Countryfile and The Politics Show. In 2008, The Journal newspaper named Gareth as a 'Rising Star, Future Leader' for his work on sustainability
By: Gareth Kane
271 pages, b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Routledge
Media reviews
'The Green Executive' provides everything you need to know to develop a winning sustainability strategy and the leadership skills you require to implement that strategy.
- Elaine Cohen, CSR Wire

"A well written manual designed to help business leaders improve the environmental impact of their company"
- Jessica Shankleman, businessGreen.com

"[A] well-informed and public-spirited new book. Why not, instead of tinkering around the edges of sustainability, go the whole hog and make it a pillar of your corporate DNA? There are, as [the author] explains, sound commercial reasons for following this track."
- Nick Smith, Engineering & Technology Magazine

"[An] outstanding book [...] what CEOs and business leaders need to know in terms of sustainability, is aptly summarized in 'The Green Executive'"
- Florian Kaefer, Sustainable Futures Blog
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