CEO Interviews

Jochen Flasbarth President German Federal Environment Agency.

"We tax the wrong things. What are rare are the resources, our environment. Therefore, this should be the basis for taxation."

Since 2009, Flasbarth has been President of the German Federal Environment Agency (Umwelt Bundes Amt: UBA), as well as Chairman of the Bureau to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). He also currently sits on the TEEB Advisory Board. Flasbarth previously served as President of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). His environmental policies focus on issues of climate change, environmental finance, and transportation policy.

Julie T. Katzman

Executive Vice-President

"We realized that if the region is going to be successful in the 21st century, where we needed to go was not only inclusive growth, but sustainable inclusive growth."

Partha Bhattacharyya

Former Chairman

"Pricing energy appropriately will always help improve energy efficiency."

Allen White

Vice President

"We are clearly facing multiple crises, and we have choices to make. We can't let the future be a matter of chance; it has to be a matter of choice."

Adam Werbach

CEO

"More and more, agency people need to say no to being asked to do something that doesn't match their values"

Tom Lovejoy

Biodiversity Chair

"If we hope to have a reasonable future for people and indeed for corporations, we have to find a way for all corporations to take biodiversity into account."

Jochen Zeitz

Executive Chairman

"We need to move out of the era of business that causes collateral damage to business that causes collateral benefits."

Mohandas Pai

Former CFO and Board Member

"Society has changed, people have changed, and there is democratization of entrepreneurship."

Michael Izza

CEO

"Corporation 2020 will be a more responsible company in all facets of that word."

Daniel C. Esty

Commissioner

"There are a significant number of cases where the cost of doing the sustainable thing is not going to get captured. So we really have to have a better regulatory framework that internalizes those externalities."

Jochen Flasbarth

President

"We tax the wrong things. What are rare are the resources, our environment. Therefore, this should be the basis for taxation."

Gus Speth

Professor of Law

Erik Solheim

Former Minister

"There is no way we can achieve a green society without working day-to-day with the private sector."

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology

"If we don't get corporations' goals aligned with society, one or the other of those entities is ultimately going to be unsustainable, either corporations or society."

Romesh Sobti

CEO

"India, fortunately, didn't fall in the trap of the belief that a free market regulates itself."

Peter Seligmann

CEO

"What's exciting is that the conversation is real, it's alive, and it's shifting from 'feel-good' to financial metrics and the metrics of delivery."

Rob Walton

Chairman

"We want this business to be a sustainable business. We want this business to last for a long time. And to do that, society has to let us do that, has to let us exist."

Alessandro Carlucci

CEO

"In the long term...companies that don't have goals aligned with society are going to disappear."

- Corp2020 presents a vision for a new way for corporations to operate, illustrating how corporations and other social actors can work together to achieve common goals, promote the development of skills, build new forms of community, be transparent and accountable, and build a green economy.

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