UNEP Launches Green Economy Initiative to Get the Global Markets Back to Work

The following eulogy was delivered by Paul Hawken at a memorial service honouring Ray Anderson held in Atlanta on August 11, 2011.

Ashoka is the global association of leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.

In this speech, delivered to the Meeting of the Experts Group on Disclosure of Non-Financial Information by Companies, Dr. Steve Waygood discusses the need for greater levels, and uniformity, of discloure by companies on non-financial issues in order to better ensure long-term, sustainable, value creation for both investors and their investee companies. Dr. Waygood goes on to address four key questions regarding how and why to proceed with this aim, and sets out Aviva Investors' position.

Offsetting and corporate claims to be carbon neutral have been a distraction. The genuine leadership of companies as a force for good will entail working towards decarbonising business models and the framing of objectives in terms of zero carbon and carbon positive.