Context and Capitals
Corporate sustainability must recognise the planet’s limits, sustainable context describes the ‘safe space’ for activities. What does it mean for you?
Corporate sustainability must recognise the planet’s limits, sustainable context describes the ‘safe space’ for activities. What does it mean for you?
April 2016 Our commentary on the issues and challenges related to one of the big topics in sustainability at present, the multiple capitals concept, has been published by the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales). The ICAEW’s Rethinking Capitals initiative brings together business, academics, practitioners, policy makers, and members of civil society …
Multiple capitals seek to expand the notion of value beyond money, cost and price. How useful might they be?
Valuing multiple capitals....the monetisation of social and environmental capacity is an approach gathering momentum but what are the pros and cons?
We look at what businesses will (or really should be) focusing on in 2019 and what should be in your strategy and plans.
Profit isn't very useful for measuring sustainability, or even for telling us much about economic viability. Why? Because profit is a lagging indicator and sustainability is inherently about long-termism. Delivering sustainability requires forward-looking indicators.
What sustainability trends will be important in 2018? What questions does your company need to ask in 2018?
Business sustainability continues to grow but are you focussing on what’s important? What big sustainability issues should you pay attention to in 2017?
Contextual analysis is not new, but conventional approaches ignore the real big picture. Sustainability context is on the rise and about time too!
For sustainability to really mean something, sustainability context is everything. How can companies start to place their activities within the big picture?
A sustainable future depends upon our ability to perceive the limits of certainty, and to embrace the uncertainty that has always been there.
The motivation behind multi-capitals approaches is to highlight their value to the economy. Why not focus upon the value of the planet as a going concern?