Blog Archives - Terrafiniti

31st August 2018

The business case for sustainability – can we make money?

If you work in sustainability/CSR/ESG it’s pretty certain you’ll have been asked what’s in it for me? Perhaps more commonly this may be phrased as ‘I can see this is important – but what’s the business case for sustainability?’. There’s sometimes a subtext – ‘yes I can see how this may be important for many […]

31st July 2018

Sustainability Simplified

Practical and concise guidance to develop sustainability in your business and focus on what’s really important. A series of free resources to address the critical challenges of business sustainability for practitioners.

29th June 2018

Cost or value? Why is sustainability strategically undervalued?

The business case for sustainability is (shockingly) still either not recognised strategically (i.e. it is understood as an additive factor for operational efficiency or marketing/PR but not as a strategic value creation/destruction factor), or in many cases it is little understood at all.

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.

30th April 2018

Sustainability Managers: key challenges to best practice

Sustainability management has in many ways entered the mainstream, but practitioners are often hampered by resistance, apathy and misunderstanding. There are many examples of excellence in specific areas, but few companies are pursuing a transformative agenda at significant scale.

28th March 2018

Mind the massive (gender pay) gap!

All UK companies with more than 250 staff must report their gender pay gap by 4th April 2018. The relatively small proportion who have reported are revealing a hugely asymmetric gender pay gap.

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?

23rd November 2017

Autumn Budget 2017 – funding a sustainable future?

How does budget address sustainability? Here in the UK the Autumn budget is a big thing, even if only for policy wonks and reporters. Everyone else generally tries to ignore it or remain in a state of denial, particularly regarding the downward revisions of our economic growth prospects. However, behind the rather tedious statements, analysis […]

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?

25th May 2017

Something stinks here – why is there a die in diesel?

Diesel air pollution contributes to 40,000 annual deaths in the UK. Weak regulation and ‘cheating’ have contributed towards a health crisis that affects us all.

27th February 2017

Sustainability & freedom: the politics of existence

Associating sustainability with a political viewpoint is an eternally frustrating issue that threatens our chances of achieving a sustainable future, why is it so common?

20th December 2016

When all around is broken – maintaining optimism for sustainability

Sustainability practitioners need ways to maintain optimism, celebrate small successes but also keep an eye on the scale of change required.

15th November 2016

Air pollution matters. Why shoot ourselves in the lung?

Earlier this month law firm Client Earth won its air pollution case against the UK Government in the High Court over illegal levels of air quality across the country. So why is it that a law firm has stepped in to achieve something that would appear to be in everyone’s best interest?

26th October 2016