Paul Hohnen Sustainability Strategies
‘At a macro level, our task this century is to adapt to the changes we have set in motion, minimize further adverse changes and restore natural systems where we can. If this assessment is correct, climate change and sustainable development will increasingly become not only the focus of a new global security imperative but also the new global economic locomotive.’
Extract, Letter to the Editor, Financial Times, 20 December 2006
Recent Publications
Paul Hohnen has authored a large number of commissioned policy papers for government, international organisation, and civil society organization clients. Opinion articles and letters drafted for executive level clients have appeared in the International Herald Tribune and the Financial Times. He has also written speeches for a variety of executives on sustainability themes.
Pieces under his own name have included:
- ‘Article on ISO Social Responsibility standard’, Ethical Corporation, 22 September 2008
- ‘G8 summit: Encouraging words for CSR’, Ethical Corporation, 22 July 2008
- ‘Climate change: Is Branson the next Churchill?’, Ethical Corporation, 31 March 2008
- ‘The Earth Charter, GRI, and the Global Compact: Guidance to Users on the Synergies in Application and Reporting’, February 2008
- ‘A prediction for 2008: We'll see more action from Governments on corporate social responsibility’, article, Ethical Corporation, 2 January 2008
- ‘If sustainability isn't the Next Big Thing we're in trouble’, letter, Financial Times, January 2008
- ‘Easyjet flies climate change politics to new heights’, article, Ethical Investor, October 2007
- ‘Big Governments and corporate responsibility - some reasons to be interested’, article, Ethical Corporation, 29 August 2007
- ‘Corporate social responsibility on the up, but government still lags behind’, article, Ethical Corporation, 14 August 2007
- ‘Speech on soft power to ministerial roundtable’, Global Compact Leaders Summit, Geneva, 6 July 2007
- ‘Governmental ‘Soft Power’ Options’, paper, July 2007
- ‘The G8 and responsible business: wading into CSR waters’, article, Ethical Corporation, June 2007
- ‘Climate change will be a key test for United Nations’, letter, Financial Times, April 2006
- ‘A Global View: The Big Issues for Responsible Companies in 2007’, Keeping Good Companies, March 2007, Chartered Secretaries Australia
- ‘Future Gazing: Sustainability expert foreshadows trends for 2007’, Business Community Intelligence (Australia), February 2007
- ‘Ampliar, accelerar: l'ordre del dia per a l'acció’, invited article for Barcelona Centre for Support of the UN Global Compact annual report, February 2007
- ‘The Big Issues for Responsible Business in 2007’, editorial interview with Toby Webb, Ethical Corporation magazine, January 2007
- ‘Get it wrong now and we will suffer for centuries to come’, letter, Financial Times, December 2006
- Informal Synthesis Report, Finnish EU Presidency Conference: Corporate Social Responsibility Policies Promoting Innovation and Competitiveness, Brussels, 22 November 2006
- Informal Report of GRI Global Conference Reporting: ‘A Measure of Sustainability’, Amsterdam, 4-6 October 2006 (Chief Editor)
- ‘Global Compact surely one of Annan's greatest legacies’, letter, Financial Times, 18 October 2006
- ‘What Governments Can Do About CSR: An International Perspective’, Address given at Breakfast Briefing Event organised by the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR), Melbourne, 25 July 2006
- ‘Worth the effort: sustainability is good for bottom line’, letter, Financial Times, June 2006
- ‘Blair may be damaged but message is right’, letter, Financial Times, June 2006
- ‘The other Lisbon Agenda - How ISO is changing CSR’, Ethical Corporation, May 2006
- ‘Following Up The World Summit on Sustainable Development Commitments on Corporate Social Responsibility: Options for Action by Governments’, Chatham House paper, May 2006 (Commissioned by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Ministry for Sustainable Development)
- ‘Embrace positive power of business: Corporate social responsibility is a public expectation’, opinion article (with Leeora Black), The Age (Australia), April 6, 2006
- ‘CSR: Bubble or Boom, The World Today’, Chatham House, March 2006
- ‘The connected world in 2006’, Leader, Ethical Corporation, January 2006 (with Toby Webb)
- ‘Social Responsibility Instruments: Building the Global Architecture for the 21st Century — Issues and Opportunities for the Emerging Social Responsibility Instruments Landscape’, Discussion paper commissioned by Industry Canada, Fall 2005
- ‘ISO moves towards a social responsibility standard’, Ethical Corporation, 5 October 2005
- ‘The ISO and social responsibility: breakdown or breakthrough in Bangkok?’, Ethical Corporation, 9 September 2005 (with Tom Rotherham)
- ‘By invitation: The G8, globalisation, and the last wave’, Ethical Corporation, 29 June 2005
- ‘Why not reward GE's green drive?’, letter, Financial Times, 12 May 2005
- ‘How Governments can improve CSR in Three Steps’, Ethical Corporation, 2 May 2005
- ‘Declare war on threat to ecosystems’, with Allen White, Financial Times, April 8 2005
- ‘Setting the Standard in Salvador’, article on the first meeting of the ISO Social Responsibility Working Group, Ethical Corporation, 21 March 2005
- ‘Can corporate social responsibility survive 2005?’, feature article, Ethical Corporation, 24 January 2005.
Details of other publications and presentations here.
