The City View with business journalist James Ashton
City A.M. Acting Editor Andy Silvester is joined by James Ashton, the Evening Standard’s former City & Executive Editor, to discuss the latter’s new book as well as the business landscape as we cautiously enter a post-Covid world.
James talks about his book The Nine Types of Leader as well as London’s place in the new economic order.
Andy is also joined by City A.M. reporter Poppy Wood, looking at the Government’s roadmap for re-opening the UK economy. Share:
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Thames have changed: CEOs going green will reap the benefits
Sky are one brand who have won plaudits for their ESG efforts (Photo by John Stillwell - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
WHEN Paul Polman drank a glass of water drawn from the murky River Thames a decade ago the Dutchman could hardly have imagined how many of his peers would follow suit.
Not by matching his dubious consumption, but by attempting to generate more from the companies they run than profit alone.
Polman’s stunt took place in November 2010 at the launch of Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan (SLP), a bold effort to prove that corporate growth didn’t need to come at the expense of people or the planet.