A couple of weeks after that bullshit CEO pledge about how “profits don’t matter as much to us anymore,” we now have a new study about how 1,000 CEOs are looking at climate change. Before we get into this, let’s just assume — because that’s always healthy and wise — that executives will say they care about climate change, but have a lot of reasons why they can’t act on it, i.e. pursuit of The Almighty Dollar and short-term gain. That would be where I would think the chasm/gap is going to be.
And, lo and behold, here’s what we have. One quote:
An amazing 88% of the CEOs “believe our global economic systems need to refocus on equitable growth.” Concerns about inequality have moved from “Occupy” protests a decade ago to the mainstream, and leaders see it as destabilizing. As one CEO said, “Unleashed capitalism has created extreme poverty, terrible social conditions and a difficult situation for our planet. If we cannot manage a better social transition of the wealth, we will be in trouble.”
Wow. Cool!
Another quote:
Sustainability creates business value in multiple ways — there is a real tension between short-term profit and long-term value. And in fact, more than half of the CEOs say “they face a key trade-off in the pressure to operate under extreme cost-consciousness while seeking to invest…
