Sustainable Business: cost or value?
Why you should look at sustainable business as a source of business value rather than a simply a cost of business.
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The business case for sustainability – can we make money?
Many people are driven by purpose, the ethical dimension of sustainable business. But all businesses need to make money, we explore where value can be found in sustainable business.
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.
Should companies be sustainability 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.
Sustainability Managers: key challenges to best practice
While sustainability management has in many ways entered the mainstream, 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.
As the general acceptance and uptake of corporate sustainability has grown, we have seen a broad progression in adoption and maturity. However, most practice appears stuck in the middle, somewhere between compliance and greater adoption. There are still very few examples of companies taking a leading position in sustainability.
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.
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.
Sustainability Trends in 2018
What sustainability trends will be important in 2018? What questions does your company need to ask in 2018?
Autumn Budget 2017 – funding a sustainable future?
What did the 2017 budget mean for sustainability? A concise overview of what it means.
How could 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.
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?
Build a sustainable business – on strategic resilience
VIDEO - Building strategic resilience through sustainable business practice starts with understanding the risks and dependencies of the business within the context of a changing world.