Corporate Leadership for Environment-Friendly and Sustainable Growth.

Directors, boards and business leaders face the challenge of pressure to recover from a widespread and deep recession caused by the impact of Covid-19 and government and public responses to it without reverting to previous practices that damage the environment, reduce biodiversity and contribute to climate change, and a historic window of opportunity to seize the moment and review, repurpose, reboot and transition to more environment-friendly, inclusive, responsible and sustainable policies, practices and development models. Board leadership and program management have vital roles to play in creating the 'new normal' that emerges from the current situation and ensuring the future changes and initiatives address inclusion and environmental concerns and longer-term challenges such as climate change. Key skills for directors and corporate leaders include listening, visioning and communication; identifying relevant sources of objective advice; stakeholder consultation, engagement and involvement; understanding evolving stakeholder aspirations, preferences and priorities; and knowing what questions to ask in relation to climate change, issue monitoring and management, water and energy security issues, pollution prevention and waste management, the circular economy, collaboration and responding to environmental challenges and opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]