Even in the best case, the Paris climate talks will fail to reduce greenhouse gases below the level at which our world will be disastrously altered.

GRI’s Sustainability and Reporting 2025 project is designed to promote an international discussion about the purpose of sustainability reporting and disclosures looking ahead to 2025. Watch this interview with Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director at Greenpeace.

World leaders began meeting on November 30 to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. They have until December 11 to agree on a climate agreement good enough to keep temperature rise to two degrees. That’s the threshold scientists say we don’t want to cross in order to avoid the worst climate change impacts.

The Fort Lauderdale Improv was recently transformed into Carnival’s Punchliner Comedy Club – for one night, at least – as part of a special fundraiser that generated more than $12,000 for Kids in Distress of Broward and Palm Beach Counties – a 20 percent increase over the amount raised at last year’s event.

Toyota team members are creatures of habitat. And a few who test vehicles for performance and reliability have become a part-time pit crew for red-tailed hawks at Toyota Arizona Proving Ground (TAPG) in Phoenix.

We are almost at calendar year end and for many companies approaching fiscal year end -- and that means busy-busy-busy times in the corporate suite as senior managements prepare 4Q / year end results for the earnings release and the details of the earnings call to be scheduled not too far into the new year 2016.

The two-week United Nations conference on climate change is halfway over, and no matter what else happens, it has already been a clear-cut success in two critical areas.

While the triple bottom line is now an established principle in sustainability circles, moving from the platitudes in CSR reports to the hard data investors seek to understand the ROI of these measures involves a far more rigorous approach to disclosure. In a recent presentation to SRI, JLL’s General Counsel, Mark Ohringer, and Global Treasurer, Bryan Duncan, provided the following practical insights on how to translate ESG impacts to shareholder benefits.

COP21 runs the risk of falling short of expectations. In the wake of Montreal, Kyoto, Copenhagen and all the other COPs, leaders must sustain the massive drumbeat of COP21 engagement in order to make an impact far beyond the next week. Companies, NGOs and global influencers alike need to inspire interest and engagement of the masses – to make all global citizens want to take action.