WINNER: Goody Business Book Award 2025 - Business - Environment
Is your sustainability strategy bold enough to drive real impact, or is it just ticking boxes?
How to Be Sustainable is a practical guide for senior leaders, CSOs and board-level professionals who want to lead with purpose and deliver measurable change.
Written by renowned sustainability expert Paolo Taticchi with Melina Corvaglia-Charrey, this book draws on interviews with Chief Sustainability Officers from global organizations including Enel Group, Microsoft, Canon and Sage. It explores what sets high-impact sustainability strategies apart and how others can close the gap.
You'll learn how to:
- Build sustainability plans that go beyond compliance and drive long-term value
- Align environmental goals with commercial performance, governance and stakeholder demands
- Integrate net zero commitments and carbon targets into strategy and reporting
- Elevate the CSO role while building leadership accountability and internal engagement
Featuring real-world case studies, frameworks and practical tools, How to Be Sustainable helps you lead a future-ready organization that's both commercially resilient and environmentally responsible.
Themes include: sustainability leadership, ESG strategy, long-term value, net zero, carbon targets, responsible business
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How to Be Sustainable
Business Strategies for Leading Change
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Table of contents
- Praise for How to Be Sustainable
- How to Be Sustainable
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Transforming tomorrow
- 2 Defining the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer
- 3 What compels people to pursue a job in sustainability
- 4 There is no single path to becoming a Chief Sustainability Officer
- 5 Essential skills and traits for Chief Sustainability Officers to thrive
- 6 Structuring sustainability for long-term success
- 7 Engaging employees on a company’s sustainability journey
- 8 Industry-leading practices of sustainability-oriented innovation
- 9 Navigating the biggest challenges facing business
- 10 Decarbonizing business and paths to net zero
- 11 The CSOs’ crystal ball and inspiring words of wisdom
- Conclusion
- Podcast links
- Index
- Copyright Page
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