In an effort to meet the growing demand for leaders in sustainable business, the Presidio School of Management has expanded its offerings to include an executive education certificate program targeted at senior executives. 

The Presidio School has offered an MBA in Sustainable Management since 2003, which integrates environmental concerns and social responsibility into every course. The new certificate program will last for 10 months, and is aimed at giving senior-level managers, executives and entrepreneurs a new look at traditional business disciplines taught from the perspective of sustainability. 

A new report from investment research firm Innovest uncovers “strong, positive and growing correlation” between environmental and financial performance as companies with sophisticated and comprehensive climate change strategies have financially outperformed their competitors over the last three years. 

 "In the longer term, the out-performance potential will become even greater as the capital markets become more fully sensitized to the financial and competitive consequences of environmental and climate change considerations," the report predicted. 

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The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) revealed that a continued decline in the release of toxic chemicals in North America is being driven by a group of the largest generators of emissions. The report also revealed that chemical releases have substantially increased with a much larger group of low volume emitters.

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A powerful group of investors and advocacy groups is petitioning the SEC to require publicly traded companies to assess and disclose their financial risks from climate change in their formal reports.  

"We shouldn't exclude something because it has an environmental stripe when in fact it is now more of an economic issue than an environmental issue,” said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmentalists involved with the petition.

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