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Ford's Impressive Sustainability Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ford then worked back from this necessary future reality, determined the share of global emissions coming from Ford products (around 2%), and mapped out the fuel-efficiency levels required to meet the scientific mandate. Relying on hard climate science to map out non-negotiable boundaries for your products is, to say the least, very unusual.

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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

The whole notion of green business rests on the assumption that corporations want to solve the societal or environmental problems they take on, that they are not lying to us, and that we can trust what they say about their products and practices. As an eco-conscious TDI owner recently asked one of us: What am I supposed to do now?

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