The challenge of today's leadership is that it must prevail in the face of global interconnectedness and shared responsibility for our collective future. The leaders who will help steers us towards a low carbon, more equitable world will need to deal with the depth and breadth of this challenge. This section of The State of Sustainability Leadership explores these contexts which sustainability leaders must understand and operate within.
Paul Gilding is a Faculty member on The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme. His chapter marries a description of the crisis he believes is about to arrive with an optimistic view of our capacity to respond: we are “slow but not stupid”.
Paul's latest book, The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World, is published by Bloomsbury Press in April 2011.
Download 'The Great Disruption' by Paul Gilding.
Sandrine Dixson-Declève is the Director of the Brussels office of CPSL and of the EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Her chapter digs into the detail of present-day political battles within the EU, as today’s dominant political institutions seek to respond to the issue of climate change. She explores the remarkable alliance of politicians, professional economists and business leaders now lining up behind a vision of low carbon growth, and the powerful opposition they undoubtedly face.
Download 'Low Carbon Prosperity: Is Europe Ready for the Challenge?' by Sandrine Dixson-Declève.
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