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WRI President Jonathan Lash has been named to the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics listing by Ethisphere Magazine, a new “global publication dedicated to illuminating the important correlation between ethics and profit.” The list, which will appear in the Q4 issue available in December, recognized individuals for “inspiring change in business ethics.”

Each year, we evaluate the impact of our work in four sustainable development goal areas and announce our top ten outcomes. Each is a glimpse of what’s possible when we work together as a global community.

New Ventures supports business solutions to the challenges of sustainable development by accelerating the growth of environmental enterprise in emerging markets.

Ensuring tomorrow’s business leaders have the skills to make companies more competitive by viewing social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs that can provide business growth through innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational change.

Ensures that the financial implications of environmental opportunities and risk are properly understood by financial institutions, investors and issuers and are appropriately reflected in the world’s capital markets.

Development Through Enterprise catalyzes sustainable economic growth by identifying market opportunities and business models that meet the needs of underserved communities in emerging economies.

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2007 issue (subscription area of Web site) of Green@Work Magazine.

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Explores six challenges – water scarcity, climate change, habitat change, biodiversity loss and invasive species, overexploitation of oceans, and nutrient overloading – and discusses their implications for business and examples of corporate responses.

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Summary of briefing by Jonathan Lash, President of the World Resources Institute, for journalists on environmental trends for 2006.

Identifies the pioneering U.S. business schools and faculty dedicated to training future managers to handle complex social issues and provide stewardship of fragile environmental resources.

WRI President Lash Named to List of 100 Top People in Business Ethics

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ENVEST: Environmental Intelligence for Tomorrow's Markets

NextBillion: Development Through Enterprise

Travelers Are Checking In To Green Hotels

Business Must Adapt to Realities of Global Ecosystem Change

Business and Ecosystems Issue Brief: Ecosystem Challenges and Business Implications

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