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>> Back to March 2019<\/a><\/div>\n

The following is adapted from the 12th annual edition of State of Green Business\u00a0report that looks at key trends and dozens of metrics assessing how, and how much, companies are moving the needle on the world\u2019s\u00a0most pressing environmental challenges. The report is produced in partnership with Trucost, part of S&P Global.\u00a0In addition to the 10 trends sustainability professionals should be tracking, the report offers more than 30 metrics for nearly 2,000 companies, assessing the progress, or the lack thereof, on a wide range of topics, including supply-chain impacts, natural capital impacts, greenhouse gas emissions and investment in greener products and business models. <\/em><\/p>\n

Download the Full Report Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“We find ourselves in uncharted waters.”<\/h2>\n

That was part of our assessment 10 years ago, in 2009, when we published our second annual State of Green Business report. It was a time of both bright hope and dark uncertainty: On the one hand, there was regime change in America, a new presidential administration promising green jobs and renewed action on climate and other issues. There was a race by the global automotive industry to transition to electric vehicles \u2014 and growing action by companies to reduce the toxic components of their products and manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many emerging technologies and business trends of 2009 are still unfolding a decade hence, slowly but surely striving to find mass markets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On the other hand, there was a global “great” recession, roiling companies in all sectors and pushing environmental issues to the back burner for some, and little progress on addressing climate change and its impacts, as greenhouse emissions continued to ratchet up.<\/p>\n

As we wrote back then:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s update is a mixed bag of encouraging and discouraging news. But on balance, despite a growing chorus of corporate commitments and actions, we\u2019re less optimistic that these activities, in aggregate, are addressing planetary problems at sufficient scale and speed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suffice to say, it\u2019s d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again. So many concerns of 2009 are concerns again today, albeit with a heightened sense of urgency. So many emerging technologies and business trends of 2009 are still unfolding a decade hence, slowly but surely striving to find mass markets. So much progress we saw back then is still giving us hope.<\/p>\n

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