Educational and Research Focus:

The Initiative is expected to provide, inter-alia:

A closed forum for business leaders with high-level environmental responsibilities to consult together on a regular basis with input from Wharton/Penn faculty and selected experts on

• Best practices
• Emerging salient and cutting-edge environmental issues
• Proposed or likely national and international regulation
• Latest research findings on relevant topics

Annual conferences or “business and environment summits” to be held on specific issues of greatest concern to the advisory membership involving and open to a larger audience with the possibility of high visibility and global policy impact.

New research and educational programs focusing on environmentally related issues of most interest to the business and policy-making community, including a master’s level partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing and Paris Institute for Technology.