According to the latest Proxy Preview, a comprehensive overview of the 2016 shareholder season, this may well be the “Year of the Environment”—with a focus on climate.

Together, Future 500 and Mission Blue will seek to align diverse stakeholders to address urgent threats to global marine life.

Years of stagnation following the failed federal climate legislation in 2009, COP21 in Paris signaled a new era of energy, optimism and action for the U.S. climate movement.

We need bold, cross sectoral leadership among key stakeholders willing to engage one another to tackle our daunting energy challenges.

The military is considered a bastion of conservatism by many. But the military’s approach to climate change is anything but conservative; it’s pragmatic.

No, climate change has not been solved by this one agreement. However, from a stakeholder perspective, we see the Paris climate negotiations (COP21) as a success. 

In 2016, we hope our Top 10 Trends report helps companies and their stakeholders see beyond conflict and find ways to collaboratively forge common ground solutions to our most pressing global problems.

Recycling and packaging campaigns come in a recurring cycle of waves that approach and recede, but rarely quite reach the shore. It’s time to change the cycle.

We check in with the Alliance for Water Stewardship, of which Future 500 is a Founding Partner, who officially launched its International Water Stewardship Standard.

What does a mass exodus from the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, or Alec, say about stakeholder engagement and climate campaigns?

The ol’ good cop/bad cop shtick: it has stuck around because it’s melodramatic and it kind of works. 

When it comes to stories about the fate of the earth, headlines are usually dominated by tales of gloom and doom. 

From politics to energy production, ocean acidification to deforestation, 2015 will present a wide range of stakeholder challenges that will require the attention of corporate leaders. 

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Increased globalization and U.S. political dysfunction have accelerated the establishment of a new norm of regulatory action—not regulation by law, but regulation by retail.

Future 500 has released a Top 10 list of what we anticipate will be the most pressing and timely stakeholder issues impacting the corporate sector in 2014.