Since our founding in 2001, CI’s Center for Environmental Leadership in Business has partnered with corporate and environmental leaders to create innovative solutions that improve business performance by helping to sustain healthy ecosystems. We are proud to be leaders in the growing movement among corporations to pursue environmental sustainability as a winning business strategy.

We are expanding our partnerships with business leaders and focusing them on the most pressing
challenges societies face in managing their natural resources, including climate change, food security and the provision of fresh water. We are partnering in ways that harness the ingenuity of our corporate partners to achieve maximum impact. We focus our efforts on:

Corporate Environmental Leadership Strategies – advising leading companies on bold and profitable commitments to sustainability in their products, operations and supply chains

Forest Carbon Markets – working with the private sector, governments and civil society to mobilize business investment in forest conservation as a solution to climate change

Agricultural Markets – engaging leaders in agribusiness, food and consumer products, and retail to meet growing global demands for food, fiber and biofuels in ways that preserve and restore healthy ecosystems

Conservation Tools for Business – creating innovative technologies that provide companies with the knowledge and analysis they need to make better decisions and fulfill their environmental commitments

Corporate Marketing & Communications – mobilizing corporate resources and influence to raise public awareness about environmental solutions and empower people to make a difference through individual actions

Corporate Conservation Partnerships – partnering with corporate leaders to invest in protecting and restoring healthy ecosystems vital to sustainable economic growth