Published Online:December 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Effective Executive
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJEE011225
DOI:10.71329/EffectiveExecutive/2025.28.4.5-36
Author Name:Colin Coulson-Thomas
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:5-36
Sustainable leadership has been applied to the sustainability of leadership, the sustainability of the results of leadership, corporate sustainability, and leadership for sustainable external impacts, including on the environment. This paper examines sustainable climate change and environmental leadership and action from the perspective of directors and corporate boards, and issues on their agendas in the current uncertain, volatile, insecure and fractured global business environment that require a holistic and collective response and cannot easily be delegated to certain departments or business units. Common challenges cannot be effectively addressed by governments alone. Business and political and public sector leaders have a common interest in resilience and survival. More and closer collaboration is needed, with implications for the role of boards and companies and future governance arrangements.
Defining the term sustainable leadership can be a challenge (Mccann & Holt, 2010). It has been applied by authors of books to the sustainability of leadership, the sustainability of the business results of leadership, corporate