John Elkington
A world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development.
Can’t keep up with the blizzard of speaking gigs at the moment, but I very much enjoyed engaging with some 50 Chileans today via a PROhumana virtual event organised by my friend Sole Teixido. Then out to Heathrow to fly to Belfast.
Three days in a world apart
An account of our journey to, around and back from the Danube Delta can be found here. A mind-bending adventure with a fantastic guide, pictured below:
Invited to Bucharest by the Sustainability Embassy in Romania, Elaine (seen above in conversation with the British Ambassador to the country, Giles Portman) and I spent much of a fascinating week both in the capital city and then in the Danube Delta. More details on the Bucharest end of the trip here – and more shortly on the Delta.
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.
Rather thrilled to be mentioned by Earthshot Prize CEO Hannah Jones early on in this interview for the latest edition of the Royal Society of Arts Journal.
