Our team just wrapped up our Corporate Working Group in Austin, an intimate gathering of twenty corporate partners, local stakeholders, industry leaders, and expert speakers.

Future 500 Summer Organizational Update.

Despite the politicization of ESG as Woke Capitalism over the past two years, shareholder advocates filed over 500 resolutions, a 5% increase from 2023.

Our team shares some insightful resources for helping companies engage their people in navigating political instability and building a stronger democracy together.

Our team recently hosted Nathan Truitt, the VP of Climate Funding at American Forest Foundation, to speak with our Corporate Affinity Network. Read about his many invaluable insights.

Last week, our team had the pleasure of gathering with twenty corporate partners, industry leaders, and expert speakers for a Corporate Working Group in Atlanta, Georgia.

This year’s CERAWeek focused on a road map for a multidimensional transition. Learn what we have outlined as a few high-level insights that emerged from each panel.

At Future 500, our team envisions a world where we are no longer needed. We are depolarizers, building bridges between business and civil society.

Our team hosted Nils Gilman, the COO and Sr. VP of the Berggruen Institute, in a virtual discussion with our Corporate Affinity Network.

Fresh off a planning retreat, we wanted to share some of the goals and events we are planning so you know what to expect from us this year.

Our team had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Stephanie Bertels, Founder of the Embedding Project, in conversation with our Corporate Affinity Network members. Read our three key insights from our group discussion with her.

In Part 3 of our look at Environmental Justice (EJ), we conclude our series by defining what an effective corporate EJ position looks like based on insightful stakeholder interviews conducted by our team. 

It has been a busy fall. We’ve completed research into biodiversity and nature-positive business strategies, growing stakeholder concerns about carbon capture and hydrogen, and operationalizing environmental justice, a core theme of our two-day CAN meeting. In addition, we hosted a carbon capture expert to explore why some advocates are skeptical and what is needed to build trust to enable such projects to proceed.

Why should companies operationalize environmental justice (EJ)? We address this in part 1 of this series. Now we move from the “why” to the “how”. How do you operationalize EJ? What is the guidebook?

Our Corporate Affinity Network and invited guests had a blast discussing carbon capture and sequestration with Ashleigh Ross, VP of Strategic Engagements & Policy, Carbon America, who “started working on carbon capture before Google became a verb”. Ashleigh voiced insights from over 20 years working in the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) space — read more to discover what she had to share with us…

Due to decades of effort from grassroots to investors, Environmental Justice is here to stay, and forward-thinking companies are integrating it now.

A quick update on our Seattle corporate working group next month where we’ll focus on environmental justice, a recap of our stakeholder process with TVA and our virtual session on critical minerals, info on our next virtual meeting on carbon capture, and some recent articles and podcasts that have helped inform our team’s understanding of issue and stakeholder dynamics. 

With the INC-2 (Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee) Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Paris having concluded, the complex network of thousands of government representatives, NGO advocates and activists, corporations, and investors may be home, but their work toward advancing a globally binding treaty is far from over. 

Summarizing Dallas, The Power of Stakeholder Forums, New Senior Fellow, Upcoming Events

At Future 500’s annual Corporate Impact Summit we engaged thoughtfully to unpack the issues of biodiversity, climate justice, circular business models, regenerative economies, and ESG politicization.