How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

by Tensie Whelan, Bruno Zappa, Rodrigo Zeidan and Greg Fishbein

September 13, 2017, Updated October 13, 2017

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Humanity has an urgent need to fight climate change, and businesses can play a key role in doing so. But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. We thus wanted to figure out a way to help executives quantify the financial benefits of reducing their firm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Tensie Whelan is distinguished professor of practice and the director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and she sits on the advisory boards of Nespresso, Domtar and Workiva.

Bruno Zappa is a consultant with A.T. Kearney’s general practice. His experience includes strategy, operations, and sustainability work in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa, as well as consumer goods industry and financial services. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, with concentration in finance & sustainability. He was the lead analyst for the CSB sustainable beef project.

Rodrigo Zeidan is Associate Professor of Practice at New York University Shanghai and Affiliate Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment and Senior Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Business, NYU Stern. He is the author of Economics of Global Business (MIT Press).

Greg Fishbein is a Director at The Nature Conservancy, where he develops innovative business and investment models to reduce deforestation in agricultural supply chains. Greg leads the business case initiative of the Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture, a joint effort of the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to eliminate deforestation from beef and soy supply chains in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

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