Danielle Carpenter Sprungli, Guest Writer
Latest Stories from Danielle Carpenter Sprungli, Guest Writer
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Turning The Tide - A New Vision Of Eco-Nomics
Sustainability challenges have economic consequences. This is true in every sector and in every country, and for most people it is too scary to even contemplate. These economic consequences range from equity and burden sharing around climate or
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Trusting Government And Business To Work Together
All around us a new industrial revolution is beginning. WBCSD President Bjorn Stigson calls it a "lean, mean, clean" revolution. It will be clean because we know we cannot go on polluting as we have been and maintain functioning ecosystems; it will
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Can America Match The Average Mileage Of Other Developed Nations?
Now that US President Obama has finally managed to up the ante on gas mileage standards in the US and address greenhouse gas emissions, why is the auto industry acting like this is a big surprise?
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Obama's Sustainable Development Challenges
As January 20th ushers in a new era for America and indeed for the world, Barack Obama will have a cartload of sustainable development challenges to deal with if his presidency is to be all that he and the public want and expect. While the "Great
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Before Christmas Tribute To Sustainable Development - "SD"
This poem is offered to encourage joining the "good fight" for sustainable development (SD). Done in good spirits, with credit to Clement Clarke Moore, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas, now known as "Twas a night before Christmas."
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What Will Business Get From Poznan?
The world watched, although in what seems to have been a relatively detached manner, given the general lack of coverage, the events happening over the last two weeks at the UN's climate change conference in Poznan, Poland (1-12 December). "Present
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Sustainability's Success
The financial meltdown has proven how badly things need to change. In July the world was focused on faltering trade negotiations, managing high energy and food costs, climate change and ecosystem degradation. Today, the recent financial collapse has
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G8 Leaders And Climate Change
Some 100 CEOs of global companies representing all sectors and regions have endorsed a detailed statement urging G8 leaders to adopt an "environmentally effective and economically efficient framework" to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
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Bringing Business and Government to the Table?
In another effort to jump-start investments in clean technologies and save the world, representatives from business, government and academia came together in Brussels on 29 April for a "CleanTech" forum.
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"Guide To The Guides" Aims To Save World's Forests
Twenty-eight thousand square miles of forest the approximate size of Ireland were converted to other land uses each year between 2000 and 2005 (source: United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization). Fifty-four countries have lost 90% or more
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Responding to Ecosystem Degradation
Is it possible that another equally serious threat will soon supplant climate change on the world stage, taking over headlines, making its presence felt in the most remote regions? And might this threat, while linked to climate change, threaten
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My Carbon, My Responsibility?
In an important step forward, the business voice was included in discussions at the Major Economies Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii at the end of January, where the WBCSD presented the business case for climate action.
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From Patent Protection To Patent Sharing
Taking their inspiration from the success of free and open-source software, where information sharing has led to the bountiful new product creation, IBM, Nokia, Pitney-Bowes and Sonya have created the Eco-Patent Commons to share their environmental
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Responding to Bali
2008 will be very busy both for business and policy-makers and much of what happens this year will have a strong bearing on the future, especially as concerns climate change.
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Creating a Global Carbon Market
As buzz surrounding the UN climate change conference in Bali continues to grow, countries worldwide are creating or ramping up their own strategies to combat climate change. Even the US has jumped into the fray, with cities and states and even
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Policies To Change The World
Developing nations have as much or more at stake in the outcome of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Bali than the developed countries that will control the debate. How can businesses best resolve this contradiction
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Influencing The Post-Kyoto Framework
Governments, NGOs and even CEOs will soon convene in Bali for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) for talks on a post-Kyoto framework. Debate in this area seems to be at a tipping point, with carbon
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Cementing the dual goals of development and sustainability
No, there were "no climate change protesters waiting to jeer as the chief executives and other senior figures of one of the world's biggest industries gathered on Wednesday," in Brussels, as David Adam wrote in "The unheralded polluter: cement
