All In - The Sustainable Business Podcast Mark Lee, David Grayson, Chris Coulter

In this episode, Chris, David, and Mark discuss the shifting corporate sustainability agenda with specific reference to Unilever’s new sustainability strategy, ERM and WBCSD’s new report, Catching the Wave: Seizing the Opportunities of Sustainability Transformation, the 2024 Oxford-GlobeScan Corporate Affairs Survey, and SBTi's recent announcement about how it will revise its flagship Corporate Net-Zero Standard to allow the use of “environmental attribute certificates” – including carbon offsets as part addressing emissions reductions.

In this episode, Mark and Chris have an involved discussion with two executives from Target, the large American retailer: Amanda Nusz, senior vice president of corporate responsibility & sustainability; and Gretchen McCarthy, chief supply chain and logistics officer. The expansive conversation explores how these two functional leaders work together to drive stronger sustainability performance and provide insight into how Target Forward, the company’s sustainability strategy, gets done.

As Director of Carbon Accountable, Catherine Atkin played a critical role drafting California's new climate regulation SB 253 and SB 261. Now, as Chief Sustainability Officer at Redwoods.ai, she's helping her company prepare to respond to burgeoning climate disclosure demands coming from California and beyond. Listen in to hear Mark and Chris talk with Catherine about what it has been like to be on both sides of this particular coin.

In this episode, Chris, David, and Mark speak with Malu Paiva, Chief Sustainability Officer for Vale, one of Latin America’s most experienced sustainability professionals. They discuss Malu’s unique professional journey, the cultural transformation underway at Vale after significant tragedies, and the importance of two important major events that will be held in South America in 2024 and 2025, COP 16 and COP30.

In this episode, Chris speaks with Roberto Guidetti, CEO of Vitasoy, about the company’s detailed journey, sustainability and ESG in an Asian context and why plant-based solutions are so critical for the future of sustainability.

Businesses committed to sustainability and those campaigning for more sustainable business need to listen better to people frightened by the pace and extent of change brought by the sustainability transformation. Why do they believe that transformation could harm them, their families, or their communities? Chris, David, and Mark use this episode to explore why this is important and some of the ways it might be done, and they reflect also on learnings from the recent GreenBiz conference in Phoenix, Arizona.