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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). Unilever U.S.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

Many countries also committed serious funds to build a clean economy: Saudi Arabia pledged $109 billion for solar , Japan declared that a $628 billion green energy industry would be central to its 2020 strategy, and China targeted $372 billion to cut energy use and pollution. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over.