Jonathan Wootliff

UK CATASTROPHE MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO BECOME CONTAGIOUS Over the past half century, European Union environmental policy has made huge strides, ensuring the establishment and implementation of beneficial strategies throughout the bloc. Today, the...

A former director of Greenpeace International, Jonathan Wootliff lives in Prague and works throughout the world as a sustainability consultant to business. He is Chair of the Board of Experts of the Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development...

Uncertainty and instability unfortunately seem to be the words which most accurately describe the current state of the world. Populism is spreading as a growing number of alarmist politicians appear willing to tout almost any unsubstantiated claims...

Humankind continues to face a myriad of significant global challenges in today‘s world. One of the most pressing of these issues is warfare, of which there are more than 70 armed conflicts currently in play. It is estimated that over 370,000 people...

We are all participants in one of the biggest and shocking scandals on earth. Almost 40 percent of food produced for human consumption, gets lost or wasted globally. In the Czech Republic, almost 730 000 tons of food are wasted each year. According...

The announcement of an historic agreement to combat climate change after two weeks of intensive negotiations the recent United Nations summit in Paris was a victory for the Czech Republic and the world.

Heartbreaking images of a dead three year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach have become a powerful symbol of what is being described as Europe’s “migrant crisis.” But poor little Aylan Kurdi could have been part of the...

Utility providers are rarely applauded.  At best, they carry out their business in providing electricity, water and the like without attracting much attention.

Politics can be more unpredictable that the weather, as Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek clearly demonstrated at the recent UN climate change summit in New York.  

According to the Czech Ministry of Trade, “Czech companies have a reputation of reliable partners and suppliers of high quality products, technologies and services.”  That’s good news if it was really true.

Surely few things can be worse for a company or an industry than to be associated with human trafficking or slave labour.Sadly, this country is said to have one of the highest levels of slavery in Europe.

As a former director of Greenpeace International, I sometimes have a tendency to be cynical about the values and genuine intentions of big business.