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Why it makes business sense to protect the planet

Season 3: Building business resilience

Malaika Vaz CEO of Untamed Planet & Wildlife Filmmaker  

Why it makes business sense to protect the planet

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Want to know why it makes business sense to protect the planet? Discover the reasons as wildlife filmmaker, conservationist, and founder and CEO of Untamed Planet, Malaika Vaz, explains. She believes that one of the most detrimental narratives in the environmental movement is the idea of environmental perfectionism. We don't have to achieve complete perfection and we can impact the planet positively by making a number of small changes. Find out why businesses are uniquely positioned to help combat climate change - and discover the impact small businesses can have on the planet and their bottom line by making manageable changes.

Malaika Vaz

CEO of Untamed Planet & Wildlife Filmmaker  

Malaika Vaz is the CEO of Untamed Planet, an award-winning film and TV production company focused on natural history, conservation and investigative TV series and feature documentaries for global networks including National Geographic and the BBC.

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Steven Badger

2 weeks ago

 A great video, and some good food for thought on little choices making a big difference over time.

Thomas Kemp

2 weeks ago

A great success story and a fantastic ideology to help not only your business appeal to potential clients in the future but the locality in which you operate your company.

Beck Owen

2 weeks ago

I think Malaika's observation that making sustainable choices make both strategic as well as ethical sense is a key takeaway. As a business we are noticing an increasing number of our clients reaching out to us to understand the steps we have taken as a business to understand and reduce our environmental impact and in turn, these factors being key points in their decision making process.
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