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Last week we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Triple Value. 10 years ago sustainable entrepreneurship was not exactly a mainstream topic for most companies. It was a time of exploring and convincing. Sustainability was pretty much in a “double negative” mode. For example: it was

Pieter van Geel, the leader of the CDA in parliament (Dutch Christian democratic party, the biggest party in parliament) posted a weblog stating that nuclear energy is inevitable. The oil dependency and the CO2 challenges are sufficient reason for reconsidering nuclear energy, he says. No longer should we have

An intense debate is taking place in The Netherlands about the added value of NGO’s and the subsidies they get. Two main arguments stand out: NGO’s get a lot of subsidy, but they misuse it. For example: some environmental NGO’s are obstructing all kind of infrastructural developments by misusing democratic tools. Their claims are often built on shaky reasoning and research. Why does the government fund this kind of opposition? The second argument is that some members of NGO’s have an extremist past in which they violated the law. A member of parliament has recently

The financing of financial institutions in developing countries (FI’s) by development financing institutions in industrialised countries (DFI’s) has increased considerably over the last years. As part of their conditions DFI’s demand the domestic FI’s to integrate environmental and social standards in their risk management processes. Setting up an environmental and social management system (ESMS) and using it well, is not an easy task for domestic FI’s. With some help they succeed in putting an ESMS on paper, but often fail to subsequently get it off the paper and make it work in practice. The aspirations and conditions of DFI’s tend to be demanding. Often, they are insufficiently tailored to the local situation and preliminary geared towards DFI’s processes instead of domestic FI’s capabilities. Moreover domestic FI’s that work with more than one DFI experience that the conditions are not harmonised. Working with domestic FI’s in emerging markets tells us to follow at least four simple rules* for integrating an ESMS in an effective way. 1. Think big, but

In a recent TV broadcast Dutch scientist and former astronaut Wubbo Ockels made a bold claim about oil companies. His statements were an upshot to an interview with Shell CEO Van der Veer. Ockels said: “100 years from now we will look back on today and we will compare the oil business with slave trading”. The core business of both is dealing in

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