Our readers in Malaysia and Indonesia would have something to say about that.
It was suggested by some on our judging panel - the Eco-Business editorial team and executive board - that to include anyone from the palm oil sector sent the wrong message, and undermined the credibility of this project. We asked, who are the personalities who have moved the needle within their business, raised the bar for their industries, and tried to make the corporations less harmful for people and planet?Īfter we reveal our A-Listers, there will be disagreement, debate, maybe even outrage. Razzouk sits on the Eco-Business executive board, and was part of the selection process for The Eco-Business A-List, this publication’s inaugural assessment of the most influential corporate sustainability officers in Asia Pacific.Įco-Business asked the region’s sustainability community to nominate people who should be in The Eco-Business A-List for what they have achieved over the last 12 months. And it could probably be argued that any sustainability report, corporate social responsibility initiative or impressive-sounding emissions reduction target is an exercise in damage limitation, stakeholder obfuscation, or corporate window-dressing.Īs Assaad Razzouk, the unabashedly cynical chief executive of Singapore-based renewables firm Sindicatum, and creator of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast series, told Eco-Business: “Every company, from the supermarkets burying us in plastic, to the consumer goods companies hiding behind the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, to the shopping malls freezing us with 16 degrees Celsius air-con, to banks who can’t look beyond their 12-month bonus cycles -i t’s profits before people and planet for all of them.”īut even if Razzouk’s view of corporate ethics is correct, and there is, as Eco-Business correspondent Zafirah Zein has written, no such thing as sustainable capitalism or sustainable business, there are individuals who are genuinely trying to turn their companies into better corporate citizens - in a region on track to achieve few if any of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Every business on the planet has an impact.
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