Third Partners, a leading management consultancy specializing in corporate sustainability and ESG, shares a positive, constructive vision for the “Golden Age of America.” This unifying message for business leaders highlights 6 areas where longstanding principles of sustainable business growth can help companies avoid controversies.
How? By focusing on genuine, positive impacts rooted in the original “triple bottom line” notion of sustainability that guides some of the world’s most valuable companies and brands. Today, Adam highlights how business leaders can leverage corporate sustainability strategies using a bipartisan, problem-solving mentality that delivers value to shareholders and stakeholders alike. Watch the video to learn more.
The original, frankly conservative, vision for what sustainability actually means still stands: meet the needs of people today, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
– Adam Freedgood, Third Partners
What Are the Proposed Changes?
Regardless of federal agendas and policy, companies will pursue sustainability as a value-creator to derisk financially and comply with buyer and investor expectations. We believe that these motivating factors create enough common ground across the aisle to keep America on course for sustainable growth over the next four years.
Third Partners’ vision for the “Golden Age of America” features:
- Clean, Low-Cost Energy
People and companies are the producers and consumers of their own clean low-cost energy. - Clean Water
States, municipalities and companies ramp up non-federal efforts to eliminate the sources of microplastics and PFAS currently leeching into our drinking water. - Real Action
Companies focus on their impact, their responsibility and their actions; not ESG buzzwords or hollow PR. - Lean Manufacturing
American manufacturers continue efforts to eliminate all forms of waste and, in doing so, compete in the global low-carbon economy. - Meaningful GHG Emissions Reporting
A new set of rules which operate more like financial accounting forces innovation, streamlining today’s broken approach to carbon accounting. - Economic Empowerment
Companies audit DEI commitments for actual results; for example, paying living wages and eliminating pay gaps.
Sustainability should simply be defined by the sum of the individual actions that companies take on issues that matter to their shareholders and stakeholders.
– Adam Freedgood, Third Partners
Third Partners Can Help
On most sustainability issues, Americans are not divided on our nation’s pursuit of energy independence, clean water, waste reduction for a globally competitive manufacturing sector, or economic empowerment for all.
Our team at Third Partners is committed to helping companies find meaningful solutions to unsolved problems. We provide actionable guidance to strengthen your business and operationalize your commitment to sustainability.
Contact us if you’d like to discuss how to leverage your company’s sustainability strategy as a unifying force for good in turbulent times. Together, we have important work to do.
