Listen to Lene Serpa, Head of Corporate Sustainability & ESG at A.P. Moller - Maersk.
The New Climate Institute has just released its Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2023, ranking the Danish transport logistics company A.P. Moller - Maersk, which operates the largest container shipping fleet in the world, as the highest in terms of the integrity of its net zero pledge.
We invited Lene Serpa, who has led the company's sustainability efforts for the past twelve years and is Chair of the Global Compact Network Denmark. She is also co-author of a book on integrating sustainability into corporate strategy (Squaring the Sustainability Circle).
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