{"id":19383,"date":"2026-07-15T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=19383"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:02:42","slug":"good-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2026\/good-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n.architecture .architecture-department:nth-child(1){\n    color: #999;\n    letter-spacing: 3px;\n    font-size: 1rem;\n    font-weight: 400;\n    margin-top: 2em;\n    margin-bottom: 0;\n}\n\n.architecture .architecture-department{\n\ttext-transform: uppercase;\n\tfont-family: Hind, Arial, sans-serif;\n}\n\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"architecture\">\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Network<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Field Notes<\/p>\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-panel-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super  \"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-blur\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2026\/07\/su26_network_siravo.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-content\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2026\/07\/su26_network_siravo.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-text\"><p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good Business<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif\"><strong>Steve Siravo \u201913 works with big business at the intersection of accounting and climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption\">Steve Siravo at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Siravo \u201913 lives just five minutes from bucolic Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts\u2014home to Henry David Thoreau, a pioneer of the conservation movement. For Siravo, a äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ College of Business alum, this iconic natural setting symbolizes his work as a corporate sustainability leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBusinesses can and should enhance society and the environment,\u201d says Siravo, who also holds a master\u2019s in accounting from Northeastern University. For most of his career, he\u2019s been a consultant for Fortune 500 companies\u2014from UPS, Dow Chemical, the World Bank Group, Tyson Foods, and Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods, among others. Siravo\u2019s clients seek his expertise on best practices in target-setting, reduction planning, and regulatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Cronenwett, senior vice president for corporate environmental sustainability at Comcast, recognizes the significance of Siravo&#8217;s work. \u201cSteve combines deep knowledge of greenhouse gas emissions reporting with a collaborative style. Our work benefited greatly from his openness, curiosity, and willingness to engage in thoughtful debate,\u201d says Cronenwett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a common saying in my field: \u2018You cannot manage what you do not measure.\u2019 Quantifying environmental impact is the essential starting point for any mean-ingful climate action,\u201d says Siravo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siravo started his career as a financial accountant, working at PwC and Deloitte. He then worked on the greenhouse gas protocol team at the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank that writes the most widely used standards for calculating corporate emissions. Now, as a senior expert with Sustainability Roundtable Inc., Siravo works with sustainability teams responsible for corporate environmental, social, and governance data and reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the concept of \u201ccorporate social responsibility\u201d has its roots in the mid-20th century, Siravo says corporate sustainability is evolving. In the last few years, he says, \u201cthe tide has shifted from every company proclaiming to be green to companies need-ing to prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measurements are meticulous and far-reaching under a three-scope greenhouse gas protocol. Scope 1 holds companies accountable for gases emitted directly into the air from vehicles, machines, and boilers. Scope 2 measures purchased electricity used, for example, for heating and cooling, from all operations a company controls. And Scope 3 tallies supply chain emissions\u2014including upstream emissions from the production and shipping of goods, and downstream through product use, trans-port, and waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With political headwinds blowing, the U.S. Climate Alliance\u2014a net-zero-focused group of 24 state governors\u2014has announced an ongoing commitment to the Paris Agreement goals for climate change. In several U.S. states, in the EU, and in a growing number of countries, large companies will be required to publicly report their green-house gas emissions and get them audited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But fragmented participation begs the question: can selective efforts solve a global problem? Siravo is optimistic but realistic. \u201cClimate change is an urgent threat,\u201d he says. \u201cBut there are exciting new developments: growing deployment of renewable energy and green technologies coming to market in heavy-emitting industries such as transport, steel, cement, chemicals, and agriculture, as well as carbon removals. I hope in 10 years these products will scale to be the more obvious choices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s strong climate leadership out there\u2014corporate leaders who are excited about emerging, creative ways to build their businesses,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found my passion,\u201d says Siravo. \u201cI work with companies and like-minded people who care deeply. I guess I\u2019ve always considered myself a Thoreauvian at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Karen Carlo Ruhren<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption photo-credit\">Photo: Seth Jacobson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Siravo \u201913 helps big business be green business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2026","architecture-field-notes","architecture-network"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19383"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}