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:

• The future of sustainability reporting: how can we make it better?, Guardian blog post, 20 May
• Kerry is up to the climate challenge, Financial Times Letter, 12 May
• Article ‘Thatcher's inadvertent corporate responsibility legacy’, Ethical Corporation, 8 April
• Why sector-based initiatives will take sustainability into the future, Guardian, 12 April
• The coming of age of Life Cycle Assessment?, Guardian, 19 November
• True cost of 'toxic' fuels is felt in climate change, Letter, Financial Times, 1 November
• Rio+20: global Green Industry Platform seems promising, Guardian, 6 July
• Article ‘Rio Earth summit: The 'Future We Want' is not the future we'll get’, Ethical Corporation, 27 June
• Article on launch of Green Industry Platform, Ethical Corporation, 25 May
• Profiled interview with Australian magazine WME on integrated reporting, 22 March
• Sustainability reporting: immediate choices for the future, Guardian, 30 January 2012
• The Future of Sustainability Reporting, Chatham House Programme Paper, January 2012
• Countdown to Rio+20 — learning the lessons of history?, Guardian, 11 January 2012
• Sustainability Olympics: which medal would you win?, Ethical Corporation, 6 December 2011
• What should a company do to be "best dressed" in the sustainability stakes?, The Guardian, 5 December 2011
• Does mandatory sustainability reporting drive performance improvements?, Ethical Corporation, 10 November 2011
• Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever, The Guardian, 28 October 2011
• Why the private sector is holding back on sustainability, The Guardian, 26 September 2011
• Environmental policy globalisation means better reporting, Ethical Corporation, 23 September 2011
• Ode to the urgent prevention of human extinction, Financial Times, 17 September 2011
• Guardian Sustainable Business blogs (ongoing)
• Materiality course for Accenture Supply Chain Academy, 2011
• Scale-up CSR? Then governments must step in, Ethical Corporation, 27 July 2011
• Is there a Long Term for Short Termism?, csrconnect.ed, 26 July 2011
• OECD ministers adopt revised CSR guidelines, Ethical Corporation, 26 May 2011
• The month in sustainable development, Guardian, 17 May 2011
• What sustainability reports say about the state of business, Ethical Corporation, 16 May 2011
• The Role and Contribution of Business Industry in Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production and a Green Economy, UNEP Informational Discussion Paper, 12 April 2011
• OECD guidelines: Big company rules revised, Ethical Corporation, 10 January 2011
• Course on Sustainability Reporting for Accenture Supply Chain Academy, 2010
• A shift to the climate adaptation agenda, Ethical Corporation, 7 December 2010
• ‘In Focus’ article on Green Growth, UNFCCC Newsletter, September 2010
• Green growth: Sustainability reflux, Ethical Corporation, 26 August 2010
• Green growth: Sustainability redux, Ethical Corporation, 11 August 2010
• The Global Compact and GRI: Nightmare or “dream team”?, Ethical Corporation, 21 July 2010
• “The United Nations Global Compact - Achievements, Trends and Challenges”, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Author, Chapter 17 (‘The United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative’)
• Sustaining the sustainable development debate, Ethical Corporation, 28 March 2010
• ISO 26000's long and windy road, Ethical Corporation, 12 January 2010

Details of other publications and presentations here.