Bill Baue
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.
Bill Baue is tagged in 49 stories.
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New Metrics /
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 thresholds.
- 1 year ago
New Metrics /
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 and impacts of previously unmeasured forms of value, the newest credible tools and solutions for assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business.
- 5 years ago
Press Release /
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 in Philadelphia, PA.
- 5 years ago
New Metrics /
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
- 6 years ago
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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 describes CSR / ESG incrementalism, which heads in a direction without a clear destination. By contrast, context-based multicapitalism (as advocated by Reporting 3.0) provides not only a clear destination, but also a timeline for tracking the rate of progress needed – across multiple, interrelated dimensions.
- 6 years ago
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Part Nine in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below.
- 6 years ago
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Part Eight in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below.
- 6 years ago
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Part Six in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below.
- 6 years ago
Finance & Investment /
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 field:
- 6 years ago
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Part Four in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below.
- 6 years ago
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Part Three in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below.
- 6 years ago
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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 that was released at the 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference earlier this year.
- 6 years ago
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“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 sustainability field to focus on incremental progress toward sustainability at the company (“micro”) level. Common sense in that sustainability applies holistically (not just atomistically), such that company-level impacts “roll up” to the systemic (“macro”) level.
- 6 years ago
Product, Service & Design Innovation /
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.
- 6 years ago
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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.
- 6 years ago
New Metrics /
This is part one of a four-part series on themes explored at the upcoming 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference.
- 6 years ago
Product, Service & Design Innovation /
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 recognizing (and others seem to be willfully ignoring) climate risk inherent in the business-as-usual practices of the largest U.S. oil and gas corporations and their downstream value chains.
- 7 years ago
Stakeholder Trends and Insights /
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 publicity for supporting the resolution, as the board (in a move of alignment with resolution filers) recommended. But as we approach the 2016 voting season, we need to understand why 4 percent of investors would take the step of either abstaining over this board-recommended resolution, or voting against it.
- 8 years ago
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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, leveraging the work of the ThriveAbility Foundation, the Reporting 3.0 Platform, and the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR).
- 8 years ago
Leadership /
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 climate change conference, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
- 8 years ago