Business | Companies’ green strategies

In the thicket of it

However faddish and fuzzy, the idea of sustainability is here to stay

Jul 28th 2016

WITH all due fanfare, on September 10th last year Dow Jones, a financial-news provider, declared Volkswagen to be the world’s most sustainable carmaker in its flagship sustainability index. Just weeks later it removed the firm. The news that 11m of VW’s diesel vehicles had been fitted with software to cheat emissions tests somewhat dented its credentials—and that of corporate sustainability itself.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “In the thicket of it”