32 minutes
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July 18, 2024
#5 Warming Up
How businesses should respond to climate change with Jonatan Pinkse
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About The Speaker
Jonatan Pinkse is a professor of sustainable business and the director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King’s Business School at King’s College London. He has authored more than 60 scholarly and practitioner articles. In 2020, he was included in the prestigious, highly cited researchers list and in 2023 in Stanford University’s list of world’s top two-percent scientists.
Episode Description
In Warming Up: How Businesses Should Respond to Climate Change, Professor Jonatan Pinkse discusses the challenges in green transition and the culture war at our doorstep.
Why are some businesses reluctant to come aboard the green transition? Why is ESG facing pushback? How is the push for green transition helping the rise of the political right?
Pinkse, professor of sustainable business at King’s Business School (London), presents the business case for sustainability and explains why it is weaker now and why businesses are tip-toeing on sustainability today despite ESG becoming mainstream.
System transformation calls for focusing on people, not just technology. Pinkse shares his research on developing a workforce for the green transition and illustrates, with everyday examples, the challenges of reskilling.
Be it sustainability or differences in academic life, Pinkse favors a pragmatic approach that recognizes hard realities and avoids disappointment from utopian ideas.
Additional inspirations from Jonatan Pinkse
- Research Books:Jonatan Pinkse Research in Google Scholar
- Website: jonatanpinkse.com
- LinkedIn: Jonatan Pinkse
