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Luxembourg, December 14, 2016  Healthy Leadership refers to a method and expresses an ambition. Health can be understood as an equilibrium, whereas sickness is telling the story of imbalances, broken ties and disruptions. If leaders are in charge of an organisation, they are responsible for the well-being of that living organism as well. Business is not only about products, services and outputs, i...[Read More]

SINTEF researchers Maria Kollberg Thomassen and Markus Steen hold handsful of biochar at the Skjærgaarden nursery. 2017 (Photo by Lisbet Jære courtesy SINTEF) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis OSLO, Norway, October 17, 2017 (Maximpact.com   News) – Biochar can help address many environmental challenges, as people in Norway are just now discovering. This form of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and s...[Read More]

We’re excited to share that the 23rd Net Impact Conference this November 5-7 in Seattle, Washington was a success! Nearly 2400 student and professional leaders came together under one roof to tackle the world’s toughest social and environmental problems. Together we suited up, pushed our limits, and left it all on the field. Game on!

         Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) is the annual global gathering that brings businesses and nations together to address challenges and celebrate achievements in sustainable development and clean energy.

By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact Achim Steiner, Administrator, UN Development Programme, right, appreciates the UNDP dinosaur “Don’t Choose Extinction” display at COP27. November 9, 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (Photo by Matthew TenBruggencate courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Posted for media use SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 22, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Overwhelmed by storms...[Read More]

Workers experiment with carbon farming, 2022 (Photo courtesy OCP Group). Posted for media use. CASABLANCA, Morocco, November 25, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Morocco’s state-owned OCP Group, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate fertilizers, has partnered with agtech companies and Brazilian growers for their first low-carbon farming and certification project. The project ...[Read More]

One of the biggest European redevelopment projects, Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, is composed of 400 condominium units in two residential towers in Milan, Italy designed by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra) with input from horticulturalists and botanists. The use of heat pump technology is helping to reduce heating and cooling costs. The buildings opened ...[Read More]

Jenepher Wanjala poses with the Sunflower solar irrigation pump outside of Kitale, Kenya, under the watchful eye of the farm’s owner, Carol Sikuku. March 18, 2018 (Photo by Jeffery M. Walcott / International Water Management Institute). Creative Commons license via Flickr. MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 15, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Twenty million new jobs could be generated w...[Read More]

The Corporate Responsibility Association and CR Magazine are proud to present the annual COMMIT!Forum, the leading event for corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability practitioners. CR Magazine Annouces Finalists for 2017 Responsible CEO of the Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. On October 11-12, 2017, COMMIT!Forum will convene CR and sustainability practitioners — to network, share...[Read More]

COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity closing celebration for the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted after two weeks of negotiating in Montreal, Canada. From left: COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Mrema; UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen; David Cooper, CB...[Read More]

U.S. President Donald Trump told the audience at Davos that increases in U.S. fossil fuel production have helped fuel unprecedented American affluence. January 21, 2020, Davos, Switzerland (Photo courtesy World Economic Forum) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact DAVOS, Switzerland, January 21, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – After a year of floods and droughts, when wildfires devastated ...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Corruption is bad for business. It damages the global marketplace by siphoning away profit and hijacking capital that could otherwise be used to build enterprises and increase prosperity. This shouldn’t be news to anyone. Nobody, apart from the profiteers, likes corruption. But now evidence is emerging that corruption is even worse, and more dangerous, than we th...[Read More]