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ESG Summit Europe In Madrid

John Elkington · 4 October 2024 · Leave a Comment

Entrance to summit
Co-founder Mónica Rico speaks
Drummers drum – on trash cans
José Luis Blasco of Acciona name-checks Volans as he speaks about Acciona’s regenerative efforts
We are the next chapter
On stage
Seen/scene from the roof
The hotel is heavily graffiti’d, too, by design
I’m next in line to be interviewed
At the end of the first day, after a glass of nice red wine

I spoke again at the second ESG Europe Summit in Madrid, though this time it had moved to a larger venue, the Albéniz Theatre. Great spirit, though there seemed to be more advisory sector people there than folk from mainstream corporates.

Have been testing clear repeatedly after contracting Covid in Istanbul, but still with something of a cough to cope with. Still, made some great connections and had some rather wonderful feedback.

It’s quite the season for events, meanwhile. In the next couple of weeks alone, for example, I have Bucharest, Belfast, London, Paris and Newcastle to contend with. And just managed to finish off and publish my latest Substack post, this one on “tipping points” as covered by professor Tim Lennon and his team at Exeter University.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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