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Margaret O’Gorman

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A Legacy Launch

February 26, 2025/by Margaret O’Gorman

In this blog series, Tandem Global CEO Margaret O’Gorman shares insights from her decades of experience working with businesses to advance nature-positive strategies. She’ll explore key trends, highlight innovative solutions, and offer perspectives on how companies can move from intention to action. February 2025 Tandem Global is a new organization focused on combining business and […]

On Greenwashing

November 2, 2022/by Margaret O’Gorman

At heart, greenwashing is saying all the right things but doing absolutely nothing. This is the sin of greenwashing that none of us should accept.

From EHS to ESG

July 19, 2022/by Margaret O’Gorman

When WHC was created 33 years ago, the intersection of business and biodiversity was firmly located in the realm of environmental health and safety (EHS), with a focus on regulation, compliance and operations.

Dueling COPs and the Ministry of Nature: The Question of Jurisdiction over Biodiversity

October 27, 2021/by Margaret O’Gorman

At the bottom of all these words and declarations lies one simple truth: we need to stop the destruction of nature. We know what the drivers of destruction are. We know where the decision points lie, and we know how to fix and restore nature once its destruction has been halted. But it’s only in the jurisdictions that these things can happen.

Five Hot Topics for Corporate Conservation in 2021

January 19, 2021/by Margaret O’Gorman

Five key issues give cause for modest hope and provide signals for businesses looking to advance biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration in the new year.

It’s Time to Invest in Nature-Based Solutions to Solve the Biodiversity and Climate Crises

September 8, 2020/by Margaret O’Gorman

The importance of private sector engagement in NbS and NCS for both climate mitigation/adaptation and biodiversity uplift.

What’s next for nature?

June 2, 2020/by Margaret O’Gorman

From the World Economic Forum in Davos to the Convention for Biological Diversity’s COP15 in China, 2020 was meant to be the Super Year for Nature, sending us into 2021 with renewed vigor for our work. But nature had other ideas.

Can the Private Sector Make it a Super Year for Nature?

February 26, 2020/by Margaret O’Gorman

Now that the dust has settled from this explosive start to what is being billed as a super year for nature, where do we stand? Has anything changed?

State of Corporate Conservation 2019: Make Biodiversity Material

November 25, 2019/by Margaret O’Gorman

Read the transcript of Margaret O’Gorman’s speech given at Conservation Conference 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Opportunity Knocks – A Call to Consider Corporate Lands for Climate Action

September 23, 2019/by Margaret O’Gorman

There is a big hole in corporate climate action that nature-based approaches can fill with cost-effective solutions that bring copious co-benefits.

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