Welcome to
The Institute for Sustainable Capitalism

The purpose of the Institute is to develop and promote ways of running businesses and making investments that are socially and environmentally responsible, and commercially successful. The ultimate goal is to bring about truly sustainable forms of capitalism that are implemented into the mainstream of companies and economies around the world and serve to create more humane, just, and sustainable societies.

Global Academy chair Walter Link and many of the Academy’s partners and friends are pioneers in the international movement to promote corporate social and environmental responsibility. The Institute for Sustainable Capitalism builds on these efforts and forms partnership with other leading institutions and individuals active in this field.

By co-creating networks for learning and action and by delivering educational programs such as conferences, seminars, university programs, and publications, the Institute for Sustainable Capitalism reaches out internationally to diverse audiences of business leaders, investors, governments, civil society, and the general public.

The Institute’s activities are organized in three interconnected work streams:

1-The Natural Capitalism Academy
The Natural Capitalism Academy (NCA) works with companies, governments, civil society, and academia to implement Natural Capitalism, a pragmatic and proven approach to reorienting organizations and society towards sustainability. NCA develops and delivers educational programs in a wide array of formats, offers consulting to businesses and communities, and partners with experienced development organizations to spread the word about Natural Capitalism to emerging economies of the developing world. (More...)

2-Business Networks for Corporate Responsibility
The Global Academy is a founding sponsor and continues to support the work of EMPRESA, the leading alliance of business networks for corporate responsibility in the Americas. Global Academy chair Walter Link co-created EMPRESA’s founding conference, and since its inception has been part of EMPRESA’s governing council and is currently helping to establish a newly-formed Board of Advisors. Mr. Link is also a co-founder and past board chair of the Social Venture Network Europe and has been involved in the development other such initiatives. The Global Academy sees such networks as a key to the transformation of companies and economies around the world. (More…)

3-Responsible Investment Conferences
The Global Academy and Progressive Asset Management recently co-hosted the first in a series of conferences aimed at promoting the reorientation of pension fund investments, which represent 33% of the NY Stock Exchange and 46% of US GDP, towards social and environmental sustainability. The highly successful Bottom Line 2001 conference attracted numerous pension fund trustees and managers, representing more that a trillion investment dollars. It is the Academy’s intention to cooperate with its partners to create an institute dedicated to this ongoing work. (More...)
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