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Bill Baue

Bill Baue

Senior Director
Reporting 3.0 (R3)

As a Systems Change Catalyst, I help design transformation from the organizational to the global level.

I specialize in Sustainability Context (as co-founder with Mark McElroy of the Sustainability Context Group) as well as Blended (Online + In-Person) Stakeholder Engagement (as co-founder, with Tom O'Malley, of the Currnt online innovation platform. I work with organizations across the sustainability ecosystem, from multinational corporations such as GE and Walmart to regional cooperatives such as Cabot Creamery; from advocacy NGOs such as Audubon, Ceres, and Worldwatch Institute to global and national standard-setters such as the Global Reporting Initiative and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board; and from educational institutions such as Harvard and the Marlboro Sustainability MBA to United Nations entities such as UNEP and the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

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New Metrics
UN Releases Manual for Companies to Conduct Authentic, Context-Based Sustainability Assessments
UN Releases Manual for Companies to Conduct Authentic, Context-Based Sustainability Assessments
Published on November 1, 2022
About a 4 minute read

The Sustainable Development Performance Indicators help close the ‘Sustainability Context Gap’ — in which less than 1% of sustainability reports produced from 2000-2013 measured corporate performance in the context of ecological sustainability ... View More

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New Metrics
#NewMetrics18: The ROI of Sustainability Strategy — and 6 Ways to Get There
#NewMetrics18: The ROI of Sustainability Strategy — and 6 Ways to Get There
Published on November 5, 2018
About a 16 minute read

Last week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks an... View More

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Community Updates
Sustainable Brands Prioritizes the Importance of Measuring the ROI of Sustainable Business
Sustainable Brands Prioritizes the Importance of Measuring the ROI of Sustainable Business
Published on August 9, 2018
About a 4 minute read

SAP, Lyft, Danone and others confirmed to speak at New Metrics 2018 Conference SAN FRANCISCO, August 9, 2018 – Sustainable Brands® recently unveiled full program details for New Metrics 2018: The ROI of Sustainable Business, running October 29-31 ... View More

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New Metrics
Commons or Uncommons? A Dialogue on Allocating Responsibility for Meeting Thresholds
Commons or Uncommons? A Dialogue on Allocating Responsibility for Meeting Thresholds
Published on October 25, 2017
About a 10 minute read

Sustainability requires contextualization within thresholds. That’s what sustainability is all about. Allen White, co-founder, Global Reporting Initiative The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Plato, Charmides, 380 BCE ... View More

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New Metrics
Mapping Maturation Pathways & Building Bridges to an Integral Economy
Mapping Maturation Pathways & Building Bridges to an Integral Economy
Published on September 29, 2017
About a 4 minute read

Part Ten in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. “If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there,” U.S. baseball icon (and meister of understated irony) Yogi Berra famously stated. This quip accurately descr... View More

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New Metrics
Activation & Acceleration: Catalyzing Context-Driven Stakeholders
Activation & Acceleration: Catalyzing Context-Driven Stakeholders
Published on September 20, 2017
About a 7 minute read

Part Nine in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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New Metrics
Scalability: Upshifting from Micro- to Macro-Level Sustainability
Scalability: Upshifting from Micro- to Macro-Level Sustainability
Published on September 15, 2017
About a 4 minute read

Part Eight in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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New Metrics
Integral Success Measurement for True Future Value Creation
Integral Success Measurement for True Future Value Creation
Published on September 1, 2017
About a 12 minute read

Part Six in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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Finance & Investment
Beyond Integrated Reporting: Multicapital Accounting of Integral Data
Beyond Integrated Reporting: Multicapital Accounting of Integral Data
Published on August 25, 2017
About a 8 minute read

Part Five in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. The 2013 launch of the Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework from the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) swung a double-edged sword through the disclosure fi... View More

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New Metrics
Purpose + Context = Connectedness
Purpose + Context = Connectedness
Published on August 18, 2017
About a 10 minute read

Part Four in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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New Metrics
How to Transform Today’s ‘Senseless’ ESG Data Into Tomorrow’s Actionable Knowledge
How to Transform Today’s ‘Senseless’ ESG Data Into Tomorrow’s Actionable Knowledge
Published on August 11, 2017
About a 9 minute read

Part Three in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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New Metrics
Reporting 3.0’s Reporting Blueprint: Triggering a Regenerative, Inclusive and Open Economy
Reporting 3.0’s Reporting Blueprint: Triggering a Regenerative, Inclusive and Open Economy
Published on August 4, 2017
About a 9 minute read

Part One of this 10-part series ended with a quick introduction of how Reporting 3.0 (R3) applies Integral Theory in our thinking. So we pick up this strand as our starting point for Part Two, which is devoted to introducing the Reporting Blueprint t... View More

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New Metrics
Reporting 3.0: Global Common Good R&D Market-Maker for a Regenerative, Distributive Economy
Reporting 3.0: Global Common Good R&D Market-Maker for a Regenerative, Distributive Economy
Published on July 28, 2017
About a 8 minute read

“There is no sustainable business in an unsustainable world.” This saying — a kind of Reporting 3.0 “motto” — is simultaneously contrarian and common sense: contrarian in the sense that it counters the prevailing tendency in the corporate... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Reporting 3.0 Launches New Business Models Blueprint, Seeks More 'Positive Mavericks'
Reporting 3.0 Launches New Business Models Blueprint, Seeks More 'Positive Mavericks'
Published on July 13, 2017
About a 2 minute read

This is part four of a four-part series on themes explored at the 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference. Read parts one, two and three. ... View More

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New Metrics
Reporting 3.0 ‘Data Blueprint’ Explores Future of Integral Information Systems
Reporting 3.0 ‘Data Blueprint’ Explores Future of Integral Information Systems
Published on May 18, 2017
About a 5 minute read

This is part two of a four-part series on themes explored at the upcoming 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference. Read part one here. ... View More

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New Metrics
Reporting 3.0 ‘Positive Maverick’ Community Pushes Context-Based Multicapitalism
Reporting 3.0 ‘Positive Maverick’ Community Pushes Context-Based Multicapitalism
Published on May 10, 2017
About a 4 minute read

This is part one of a four-part series on themes explored at the upcoming 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference. ... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
The Missing 60%: ExxonMobil, Forceful Stewardship and the 2°C Business Model Imperative
The Missing 60%: ExxonMobil, Forceful Stewardship and the 2°C Business Model Imperative
Published on June 8, 2016
About a 8 minute read

The Spring 2016 proxy votes supporting the 2°C stress test resolutions at last week’s Annual General Meetings of ExxonMobil (38.2%) and Chevron (41%) give cause for both celebration - and concern. These votes suggest that key asset managers are re... View More

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Stakeholder Trends and Insights
Fossil Fuels & Carbon Risk Resolutions: Institutional Investors, Don't Sit on the Fence!
Fossil Fuels & Carbon Risk Resolutions: Institutional Investors, Don't Sit on the Fence!
Published on April 19, 2016
About a 5 minute read

At BP’s 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM), 4.12 percent of the company’s investors either ‘abstained’ (2.4 percent) or voted ‘against’ (1.72 percent) a resolution to better disclose carbon risk. The remainder (96 percent) got the publicit... View More

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New Metrics
True Materiality and Integral Thinking: Editor's Postlude
True Materiality and Integral Thinking: Editor's Postlude
Published on March 15, 2016
About a 2 minute read

It has been my pleasure to edit this tour-de-force 6-part series — now an e-book — by my colleague, Ralph Thurm, in which he lays out his vision for how integral thinking and true materiality can catalyze a regenerative and inclusive economy, lev... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
UNEP to Companies: Time to Raise the Bar on Sustainability Reporting
UNEP to Companies: Time to Raise the Bar on Sustainability Reporting
Published on December 2, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Corporate sustainability reporting desperately needs to up its game in order to align company-level sustainability performance with the broader systems-level ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and COP21, the United Nations clima... View More

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