CEF 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award Winners: Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate
CEF presented the 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award to two co-winners, Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate, recognizing their groundbreaking efforts to catalyze a market for carbon removal solutions. The awards were announced in connection with the 2022 CEF Annual Leadership Retreat, attended by senior executives representing CEF member companies with combined revenues of $4 trillion.
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ABOUT THE C.K. PRAHALAD AWARD FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP
The C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership, created in 2010 to honor founding CEF Advisory Board member C.K. Prahalad, recognizes exceptional, globally significant private-sector action that exemplifies the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. Honorees may be either (1) individual executives, (2) notable corporate actions/initiatives, or (3) collaborations involving the private sector that have produced globally significant results. Winners are determined through private votes cast by CEF’s 24-member advisory board, which includes representatives from government, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. The voters chose from a roster of finalists, selected following an open nominations process. Past award recipients include:
• 2010: Walmart Brazil CEO Hector Nuñez • 2011: Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca-Cola • 2012: Neil Hawkins, Dow Chemical Corporate Vice President and CSO ; The Sustainable Apparel Coalition; Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever • 2013: Vidal Garza Cantú, Director, FEMSA Foundation; Hannah Jones, CSO and VP of the Innovation Accelerator, Nike; Kurt Kuehn, CFO, UPS • 2014: Robert B. Carter, CIO, FedEx Corporation; Global Water Challenge (GWC); Tamara “TJ” DiCaprio, Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft • 2015: David Crane, CEO, NRG Energy • 2016: Joe Kaeser, CEO, Siemens • 2017: Urs Hölzle, SVP for Technical Infrastructure, Google; Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) • 2018: Lisa Jackson, VP for Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple; The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) • 2019: TerraCycle’s Loop Shopping Platform; Posthumous honors to former Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers • 2020: Douglas M. Baker, Jr; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President and Vice Chair Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Jopppa