Mixed Group will Set up a New Worldwide NGO to Proceed to Advance Sustainability via its Company Members with Revolutionary Options, Collaborations and Thought Management
New NGO will Ship Significant Personal Sector Contributions – from Operations to the C-Suite – By means of Science-based Approaches in Nature, Water, Local weather Resilience and Social Affect
Washington, D.C., January 2, 2024 – Two of the main NGOs working with enterprise on sustainability and nature programming, the World Atmosphere Middle (WEC) and the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) have entered right into a memorandum of intent (MOI) to mix the 2 organizations. As of January 1, 2024, Margaret O’Gorman assumed the twin function of President and CEO of WEC and President of WHC. The brand new group title and branding is anticipated to launch within the fall of 2024.
The mixed group will probably be positioned as a frontrunner working on the intersection of enterprise and sustainability, providing significant non-public sector worth via science-based approaches in nature, water, local weather resilience and social affect. By means of technical acumen and thought management, the brand new group will ship options and help for a variety of company sustainability efforts – from operations to the C-suite, all below the identical roof.
With the experience of the 2 organizations, and their mixed 75 years of expertise, this new NGO will broaden alternatives for best-in-class collaborations with firms to halt and restore nature loss, enhance water stewardship, improve local weather and neighborhood resilience and help the transition to a round economic system. This mix will even embody WEC Europe e.V., which is able to proceed to function the International Thought Management hub for the longer term international group.
“We’re bringing collectively two purpose-driven organizations working with firms on sustainability and nature targets,” stated Emilio Tenuta, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Ecolab, Inc. and WEC Board Chair. “The brand new group comes at a essential time for enterprise as stakeholder and shareholder expectations associated to planet and folks develop, and intersections between points like water, local weather and nature are more and more acknowledged. We count on to be a frontrunner on this house from the beginning.”
Provides Connie Hergert, Vice President, Company Actual Property at Ontario Energy Era and WHC Board Chair, “The experience of every group enhances the opposite, permitting for a particular method by seamlessly connecting C-suite ambition to operational implementation and provide chain engagement. Corporations will discover a robust accomplice to advance their nature, local weather and affect reporting. WEC and WHC members will see the good thing about the mixed experience nearly instantly.”
Below the phrases of the MOI, unanimously authorised by the boards of administrators of each organizations, Margaret O’Gorman will probably be appointed President and CEO of WEC whereas remaining President of WHC. When the authorized mixture is full, O’Gorman will probably be named CEO of the brand new group. Dr. Neil Hawkins, interim CEO of WEC, accomplished his pre-determined tenure on December 31, 2023.
“I really feel very lucky to have the chance to steer this mixture and construct a corporation that can higher meet non-public sector wants whereas addressing a few of the planet’s most urgent points,” stated O’Gorman. “I’m thrilled to work in becoming a member of WEC’s international thought management and capability constructing with WHC’s strategic pragmatism and technical know-how. I want to lengthen my deepest due to Neil Hawkins for the essential function he performed in supporting and advancing this effort.”
Says Dr. Hawkins, outgoing President and CEO of WEC, “The brand new group will turn into the ‘thought chief’ and the ‘do chief’ that’s wanted to help accelerated progress on local weather change, water, circularity and nature challenges all of us face. It is extremely thrilling.”
The signature occasions of WEC and WHC, the WEC Gold Medal Award Presentation and WHC Conservation Convention respectively, will proceed. The 2024 WEC Gold Medal occasion, commemorating 40 years of recognizing sustainable enterprise excellence, will probably be moved from Might 2024 to the autumn of 2024. The WHC Conservation Convention will probably be held June 4-5 in New Orleans, LA. Moreover, all work associated to funded tasks of each organizations — presently underway or scheduled— will proceed with out interruption.
About Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC)
WHC has been working on the nexus of enterprise and biodiversity for 35 years and is the one worldwide NGO targeted solely on enabling non-public sector motion for nature. WHC builds methods and frameworks for firms to combine nature with local weather, fairness and engagement to help sustainable ecosystems and wholesome communities. WHC company members symbolize a few of the main nationwide and multinational firms. WHC-certified applications could be present in nineteen nations and 48 U.S. states.
About World Atmosphere Council (WEC)
The World Atmosphere Middle is an impartial, international, non-profit, non-advocacy group that advances sustainable improvement via the enterprise practices of member firms and in partnership with governments, multi-lateral organizations, non-governmental organizations, universities and different stakeholders. WEC creates sustainable enterprise options via particular person tasks in rising markets; convenes management roundtables to form strategic pondering throughout a spread of sustainability subjects; and honors business excellence via the annual awarding of its Gold Medal Award. WEC celebrates 40 years of affect in 2024.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Monica Keller, Chief Advertising Officer, WHC
mkeller@wildlifehc.org | 240.247.0930
Zoie Gaidos, Advertising & Communications Coordinator, WEC
press@wec.org | 202.939.3852
