Aron Cramer

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A Year of Uncertainty: Ten Big Questions Facing Sustainable Business Leaders in 2025

Jan 15, 2025 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

Aron Cramer President and CEO, BSR Aron Cramer President and CEO, BSR San Francisco Aron is recognized globally as a preeminent authority on just and sustainable business. In addition to leading BSR, which has grown substantially throughout his tenure as President and CEO, Aron advises senior executives at BSR’s 300+ member companies and other global businesses and partners on the full spectrum of environmental, social, and governance issues.
Climate Week NYC: A New Set of Inconvenient Truths for Sustainable Business

Sep 18, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York City—typically a time of optimism and promising announcements from a community of people committed to putting the world on a path to justice and sustainability—arrive in 2024 with a decidedly turbulent backdrop. Unfortunately, this year is no time for optimism.
CEO Outlook: How is Business Advancing Sustainability Priorities in 2024?

Jul 23, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

At the start of this year, I presented seven pivotal questions that would shape sustainable business in 2024. What impact could the 2024 global elections have on just and sustainable business, and what can companies do about it? Will the COP28 agreement mark a real transition? Are DEI commitments flagging? Can we ensure that emerging technology is developed responsibly and sustainably? Will new regulations turn sustainability into a compliance exercise?
What the SBTi Battle Portends: The Decisive Decade Becomes the Dilemma Decade

Jun 12, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

The public battle over the direction of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as it considers the role and integrity of carbon offsets and other market-based solutions is extremely important. The dispute also has larger significance: it is also a proxy war reflecting the growing tension between slow and steady business progress on the one hand, and the need for more profound change based on what climate science tells us is needed on the other.
The United States Is At Risk of Marginalizing Itself on Sustainability: What Business Can Do

May 8, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

This is the second of a two-part series on how developments in the United States are marginalizing its global leadership role, and creating unnecessary barriers to the achievement of a more just and sustainable global economy. The lack of consistent American engagement and leadership on just and sustainable business is having far-reaching consequences.
The United States is at Risk of Marginalizing Itself on Sustainability

Apr 30, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

This is the first of a two-part series on how developments in the United States are marginalizing the American leadership globally and creating unnecessary barriers to the achievement of a more just and sustainable global economy. Over the first quarter of 2024, it is clear that the United States is at risk of marginalizing itself and its influence over the direction of the global economy, the urgent challenge of the energy transition, and the competitiveness of American enterprise.
Business Leadership Amidst 2024 Elections Around the Globe

Mar 14, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer |Sophie Lambin |Marc Lacey

Election night is a big thing in every newsroom. Pizzas are ordered and journalists hunker down for a long night of watching the returns arrive. In 2024, at a global newsroom like the one I help run, we're going to have scores of election nights. All across the globe, voters will be heading to the polls in what is shaping up as one of the biggest years ever for elections.
Business Leadership Amidst Elections Around the Globe

Mar 14, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer |Sophie Lambin |Marc Lacey

Election night is a big thing in every newsroom. Pizzas are ordered and journalists hunker down for a long night of watching the returns arrive. In 2024, at a global newsroom like the one I help run, we're going to have scores of election nights. All across the globe, voters will be heading to the polls in what is shaping up as one of the biggest years ever for elections.
2024’s Elections: A Defining Test for Business Leadership | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR

Feb 21, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

As more than half of the world’s voting-age population heads to the polls in 2024—more than in any previous year in human history—there is a wave of anxiety cutting across business, civil society, governments, and in many places, the very citizens whose voices are to be heard at the ballot box. It is, indeed, an epochal moment. Most of us take democracy, and the rule of law, as a stable constant in our public life. But it’s not something we can take for granted.
CEO Outlook: Seven Pivotal Questions Shaping Sustainable Business in 2024

Jan 10, 2024 | bsr.org | Aron Cramer

The multiple shocks and surprises affecting our world in the 2020s can easily lead us to think that we don’t know what’s coming next. It would be folly—and senseless—to diminish the impacts of a global pandemic, geopolitical conflict, and social upheaval. And yet, as world-shaking as these disruptions are, the underlying questions at the heart of the role of business in society remain very clear.