Joel Makower

Chairman & Co-Founder, Trellis Group · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joel Makower is a corporate sustainability and clean technology authority who co-founded GreenBiz, now known as Trellis Group, producing industry events and media coverage. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen books, including Strategies for the Green Economy, The Green Consumer, and The New Grand Strategy.

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Insight
Makower: Middle management is the impenetrable wad thwarting corporate sustainability
“It's that big, fat, impenetrable wad of resistance called middle management that's often thwarted. They're really adept at thwarting change.”
Joel Makower Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 12:32 A reality check on corporate sustainability
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Makower: SEC climate disclosure rules will be satisfied with vague language
“I also think it's going to, in, in its practice, in the compliance of, with whatever the SEC ultimately comes back with, is going to be, With sufficient, not necessarily loopholes, but the ability to meet the requirements with a bunch of vague language that do…”
Joel Makower Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 17:25 A reality check on corporate sustainability
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Makower: Supply chain contracts will enforce climate disclosures more than regulators
“I think there's a lot more, you know, in the task force for climate-related financial disclosures than now the task Of course, for nature-related financial disclosures, that a lot of those things, which will be enforced through contracts, supply, supplier rela…”
Joel Makower Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 18:56 A reality check on corporate sustainability

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A reality check on corporate sustainability Nov 16, 2022 9m
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