Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

24 Apr 2014

Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

Re: Carter Roberts (MBA 1988)

Topics: Environment-Environmental Sustainability Finance-Investment Social Enterprise-Nonprofit Organizations

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business, industry, and government to the table so that they can be part of the solution for global conservation and natural-resource management.

“We will not succeed in our work unless we encourage business leaders to understand the degree to which their businesses depend on the planet,” he says.

Roberts's strategy has been to forge partnerships with major business players and governments in key areas. So far, WWF has signed 57 memoranda of understanding with companies designed to deliver large-scale improvements in natural-resource management and conservation.

"I am relentlessly optimistic, mostly because I see companies like Coca-Cola and Walmart, and governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," says Roberts, who hopes to do more to get the US government out of gridlock and into the fight to save the world from climate change and natural-resource depletion.

(Published April 2014)

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