Joss Tantram - Author at Terrafiniti

31st July 2020

Engaging leadership in sustainability – CFO

Engaging leadership in sustainability is vital – even in a large organisation with dedicated sustainability specialists. To ensure that sustainability becomes and remains a strategic priority, sustainability professionals need to work hard to get the organisation on board. You need to start with the positions, roles, places and people that matter.

23rd January 2020

BUSINESS PURPOSE | Sustainability Issues 2020

Research shows people are losing trust in public institutions and even capitalism as it is now. What can businesses do to build trust?

20th December 2019

2020 Sustainability Issues

What will be the big sustainability issues in 2020? Each year we look to identify the emerging and fast-moving sustainability issues (here are 2019’s) we believe will shape sustainable business practice. In 2020 these are not wholly new, but existing issues continue to gather momentum, move from the edge to the mainstream or become the […]

30th August 2019

Sustainability people that matter – engaging the CEO

To make sustainability a strategic priority, sustainability professionals need to work hard to get the organisation on board. They need to start with the positions, roles, places and people that matter. Here is Sheila, the CEO.

28th June 2019

Climate change – emergency, extinction or progress?

The world seems to be finally getting its head around the idea that climate change is turning into climate emergency but is there still too great a gap between words and action?

30th April 2019

Sustainability skills for everyone… not just the professionals

If your company has a sustainability ambition it also has a need for sustainability skills – but who needs them and how do you take a planned approach?

29th March 2019

Business Sustainability Essentials – new book from Terrafiniti

Sustainable Business Essentials – our new book. Providing insight, advice and guidance on the essentials of sustainability management.

27th February 2019

Materiality Matters, what matters most in sustainable business?

Materiality is the difference between a weak sustainability approach and one that’s logical, planned and based upon what’s important. What matters most?

31st January 2019

Sustainability, environmental management and quality – parallels and differences

Sustainability, EMS & quality management – can a continuous improvement approach to the management of sustainability deliver real strategic change?

28th November 2018

Sustainable business culture – how do you nurture it?

Any change in organisational priority implies a change in organisational approach and capacity. Successful sustainability must be approached as a change issue, in the norms, values systems and structures of an organisation as much as the specific ambition, goals and performance commitments of a sustainability strategy.

25th May 2018

Act now for sustainability! Should companies be activists?

Sustainability is a transformative agenda. It requires companies to not only develop new priorities, but also to become corporate activists – to act to affect the wider system within which they operate.

28th February 2018

The sustainability of profit – stop looking back

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.

31st January 2018

Sustainable Finance – workshop report

In September 2017, we ran a Towards 9 Billion workshop on sustainable finance, to explore how the finance sector could build a sustainable future. To get the workshop report contact us.

22nd December 2017

Sustainability Trends in 2018 and the questions you should ask

What sustainability trends will be important in 2018? What questions does your company need to ask in 2018?

27th September 2017

How might the financial system build a sustainable future?

A sustainable financial system requires both rethinking the very nature of value, as well as creativity in how we would project that value over time.

31st August 2017

Population & consumption: where’s the problem?

Alongside the challenges to sustainability we already face, there is growing concern about how these might accelerate in the future. One key issue is population growth and its impacts, but should the scale of humanity be seen as a threat or as an opportunity?

26th April 2017