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by Mark Van Clieaf (Author), John Montgomery (Author)
Future-proof your business with a credible net-zero transition plan for the new economy.
Net Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero Economy delivers a breakthrough approach to transition from business models contributing to climate disaster to Net Zero Business Models crucial to sustainability and profitability.
Based on the authors' business advisory expertise and insights from their research with over 200 best-in-class global companies, this book is an indispensable guide for executives, corporate directors, and institutional investors.
Discover how to implement a bona fide net zero transition plan and processes to:
- Identify new Board and Investor expectations for Net Zero Transition Plans (Beyond ESG)
- Ensure the Five eco-efficiency plans, processes and value drivers are in place as the foundation for a credible transition plan
- Select one of Four Pathways to a Net Zero Business Model as strategic options
- Apply the Three Domains for Systems Thinking required by leaders for Net Zero strategic leadership
- Align key metrics, targets, and incentive designs to accelerate business model transition
Metrics and Targets are not a plan, and a commitment to net zero is not a business strategy. Net Zero Business Models has been endorsed by C-Suites, Boards and Institutional Investors representing over $ 80 trillion in assets under management. This is the playbook you need to win in the Net Zero Global Economy.
Front Jacket
Net zero is more than a buzzword. It is a core driver of innovation, business success, and growth in long-term enterprise value. Net zero business models are now essential for C-Suites, boards and institutional investors. Executives must prioritize the risks and opportunities resulting from climate change and government policies to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
All companies must adapt to the new global net zero economy that is now a reality or fall behind.
In Net Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero Economy, a pair of veteran advisors to boards of directors and C-Suites deliver a breakthrough approach for transitioning to net zero emission business models that drives long-term profitability, growing shareholder returns, and sustainability.
Readers will explore what net zero really means and how to inventory greenhouse gas emissions, set science-based emissions-reduction targets, and choose, design, and implement a net zero emission business model. This economy-wide transition to net zero will ultimately result in a world of carbon-free energy.
The authors reveal new foundational processes, tools, and enterprise performance benchmarks to address greenhouse gas emissions in a company's current business model. Net Zero Business Models provides actionable and practical insights distilled from the best practices of over 200 global companies committed to achieving net zero.
Metrics and targets are not a plan and a commitment is not a business strategy. The transition to a net zero business model requires:
- Implementing the FIVE core eco-efficiency processes and systems
- Choosing one of four strategic options and implementation plans - The FOUR Net Zero Pathways
- Applying the THREE domains of systems thinking and leadership capacity across the organization
The outcome is a bona fide and credible transition plan to achieve a viable business model that is net zero.
Net zero business models have been endorsed by C-Suites, boards and institutional investors representing over $80 trillion in assets under management. A roadmap for board members, CEOs, CFOs, Chief Sustainability Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Human Resources Officers, Heads of Investor Relations and institutional investors, Net Zero Business Models is the playbook you need to win in the global net zero economy.
Back Jacket
PRAISE FOR NET ZERO BUSINESS MODELS
"Net Zero Business Models presents an invaluable analytical framework built on in-depth research and insightful contributions from leading business strategy and finance experts along with sustainability practitioners in the real economy. It is the playbook for corporate boards, the C-Suite and investors."
-- Henrik K. Jeppesen, CFA Director, ESG Implementation, Janus Henderson Investors; Co-chair of the Sustainable Investing Group at the CFA Society New York
"A fantastic book - amazing even! I've spent the last 25 years immersed in values-based banking and I really wish I had this book at the start of my journey."
--Ken LaRoe, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Climate First Bank
"Net Zero Business Models is brilliant because it concisely outlines the foundation of the future energy system required for a net zero world: smart power grids powered by 24/7 carbon free energy."
-- Chris Colbert, CFA, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Financial Officer, NuScale Power Corporation
"Net Zero Business Models lays out the practical steps companies need to take - and boards need to monitor - to ensure a successful transition to the net zero economy. It provides invaluable insights for corporate leaders and investors alike."
-- Chris Librie, Global Director, ESG and Sustainability Strategy, Applied Materials; original contributor to the Green House Gas (GHG) Accounting Protocol Standard
"Adopting a long-term energy strategy that identifies the requisite strategic leadership capacity and innovation required reduces the friction to transition to a net zero economy. Net Zero Business Models provides C-Suites, boards, and regulators with four net-zero navigation pathways and five core eco-efficiency processes, based on best-in-class company research."
-- Aurora Geis, PCC, Founder and CEO, A Go Strategy; former board chair, CPS Energy, America's largest electric and gas municipal utility
"A unique book that clearly articulates the different forms of systems thinking in leaders required to achieve a net zero economy."
-- Dr. Michael C. Jackson, Order of the British Empire (OBE); Emeritus Professor, University of Hull; former editor-in-chief, Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Author Biography
JOHN MONTGOMERY is the Founder of the Center for Global Consciousness where he provides strategic advice and executive coaching to CEOs and their executive teams. He practiced corporate law for 37 years in Silicon Valley where he founded a thriving corporate law firm, M&H LLP, and served as outside general counsel for over two dozen public companies and over 1,000 emerging growth companies. John is also the author of Great from the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success.
MARK VAN CLIEAF, FRSA, is Managing Director at FutureZero, a leading consultancy advising global institutional investors, boards, and C-Suites on enterprise performance measurement, organization design, C-Suite succession planning, and executive incentive plan design aligned to business strategy and the net zero transition. He has over 35 years' experience across four continents and a broad range of industry sectors, including global energy, utilities, mining, aluminum, consumer packaged goods, industrial, technology, credit card, advertising and branding, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and institutional investors.
