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Steve Howard
Leading Sustainable Business Professional

Chair of We Mean Business, is on the administative board of SE4ALL and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Environmental and Natural Resource Security

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Climate Action
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
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Steve Howard
Leading Sustainable Business Professional

Chair of We Mean Business, is on the administative board of SE4ALL and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Environmental and Natural Resource Security

Biography

Steve Howard is a leading sustainable business professional and is a recognised authority on sustainability and climate change. Howard is Chair of We Mean Business, is on the administative board of SE4ALL and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Environmental and Natural Resource Security. 
Howard was Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011-17. At IKEA, Howard led the development and implementation of the People and Planet Positive strategy, and put in place strategies that lead to more than 3 billion euros of investments from wind power to recycling at the same time as creating a sustainable products category that more than tripled in revenue to a 2-billion-euro business. Howard also supported the role out of a comprehensive approach on diversity, inclusion and fair pay.
A serial entrepreneur, in 2015, Howard co-founded We Mean Business, the leading climate change coalition of organisations and businesses which helped support the Paris Agreement and has led to more than 500 businesses making more than 1000 commitments on climate action. 
Prior to IKEA Howard was Founder and CEO of The Climate Group, an independent global non-profit organisation which has built extensive networks of cities, states, regions, businesses and entrepreneurs committed to a net-zero carbon world. Before the Climate Group, Howard consulted on sustainability for major corporations and institutions, working as a partner at ERM Group in London and URS Corporation. 

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