6 posts categorised "Malcolm Preston"

14 September 2012

Storm clouds looming for business & climate change?

By Jonathan Grant and Malcolm Preston, PwC Sustainability & Climate Change. The current economic conditions have been described by PwC’s UK economic analysts as the ‘new normal’. Put climate change in the mix, and we’d better get used to 'business as unusual.' The current economic conditions have been described by...

18 June 2012

Have we got a business case for Rio?

Malcolm Preston previews Business Day at Rio+20. We can’t talk about sustainable development in a resource constrained world when all resource usage and consumption is driven by business. Without business there is no consumption. Business has been accused of not being specific enough with government about what they want in...

22 May 2012

Rio+20: Seven out of ten CEOs would take action on global sustainability challenges

Malcolm Preston, PwC’s global sustainability and climate change leader, reflects on the results of a PwC poll which asked CEOs how important sustainable development is now and in the future, and what they're expecting from Rio+20. With less than a month to go to the landmark Rio+20 United Nations Conference...

12 July 2011

Is winning everything?

Winning isn’t everything they told us at school, but it still feels good when it happens, says Malcolm Preston, global leader, sustainability and climate change. On Thursday, I came back from a launch event for our new green office, to find out that PwC have won Consultancy of the Year...

09 February 2011

Real estate gets real about the green agenda

Malcolm Preston dons a hard hat and boots to find the real deal with real estate and sustainability: Taking a preview tour of our new office at More London last month, I had to envy my colleagues who will be looking out on the new ‘bee garden’ on the seventh...

18 October 2010

Making business and economic sense of sustainability

Sustainability and climate change have moved to the top of the corporate agenda, gaining traction among employees, shareholders, regulators and consumers alike. Most organisations know it’s an area that can no longer be ignored, but many are at different stages of understanding. Whether driven by corporate conscience, stakeholder pressure or...