Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog  by Helle  Bank Jorgensen is CEO and Founder of Competent Boards. She has a 30-year record of turning ESG risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She works with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors. Helle is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards. Helle serves at the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence’s Sustainability & ESG Insights Council; the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals; and His Royal Highness Prince of Wales A4S (Accounting for Sustainability) Global Expert Panel. Connect with her on LinkedIn. The war in Ukraine has cost thousands of lives and created more than four million Ukrainian refugees. Other effects on the world at large are still unspooling, including a huge pending shortage of basic foods (Ukraine is Europe’s breadbasket) and how to ...

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