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The Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference in San Francisco is in full swing today, and the opening plenary yielded some early insights as to the shape of the event.

Aron Cramer, President and CEO of BSR, highlighted three areas critical for both business and planetary survival in a reset world:

Innovation
System redesign (with the first test of whether we can adequately reshape global systems to be determined in Copenhagen in just a few short weeks)
Leveraging the power of networks

Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative, added his own thoughts on the challenge of reshaping systems and economies. He stated that creating a business case for action can be very difficult, as it requires that we justify a transition to a new economy based on current economic fundamentals… something akin to trying to explain quantum physics using Newtonian… More >