Feeling like the lone voice on sustainability in your organisation? Sustainability Insights is where in-house sustainability professionals come together to swap ideas, tackle challenges, explore innovation and drive real sustainable change.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Why join the Sustainability Insights Group?
Over the past 5 years hundreds of senior sustainability professionals have taken part, contributing to and benefiting from our monthly meetings.
Terrafiniti insights and solutions
For over 25 years we’ve supported and advised some of the world’s leading companies and not-for-profits. In each session we’ll share insights on best practice and the things organisations typically find challenging or get wrong.
Peer Collaboration
The meetings attract international sustainability specialists from diverse sectors. They provide a unique, safe, Chatham House Rule-based setting to engage with other sustainability professionals and learn from each other.
Personal and Professional Resilience
Members tell us that taking part in meetings provides supportive connections, builds motivation and reinforces resilience. The format of combining themed content plus discussion helps enhance sustainable business knowledge and navigate ever-changing sustainability challenges.
How does the Sustainability Insights group work?
Sessions are hosted by Joss and Dominic, Terrafiniti’s founding partners. Here’s how the group works …
A Featured Theme
Each session focuses on a featured sustainability theme and often focuses on topical issues. We use our knowledge, insights and experience to prime each session.
Group Discussion
Ask us difficult questions, engage with other senior sustainability professionals, share and explore challenges and opportunities. These are meetings, not webinars.
Trust & Share
We host small groups and follow the Chatham House Rule. While ideas are shared, personal identities are not and sessions aren’t recorded
Who
The meetings are for in-house sustainability professionals working in companies and charities – so if this is you, you’re welcome to join us!
Free to attend
The only cost is your time. We just ask that you make a constructive contribution (however small) and share your ideas and feedback.
When
Meetings are held online on the second Thursday of each month at 2pm (GMT/BST) and last for 1 hour. They are followed by an additional 30 mins Q&A where we can share learnings from our work with clients.
NEXT MEETING
ESG Headwinds
Maintaining momentum in challenging times
9 APRIL 2026 | 2pm (BST) | 60 minutes + 30 minutes further Q&A
Corporate ESG and sustainability activity over the last six months has faced growing headwinds across the UK, Europe and Asia. Political pushback, regulatory recalibration and more sceptical capital markets have contributed to softer public and investor sentiment.
Key trends include:
- Political shifts – in the US, federal climate and ESG measures have been rolled back, including withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. In the EU, several elements of the sustainability due diligence and reporting agenda have been diluted.
- Tighter investor scrutiny – demand for labelled ESG products has become more selective. Public and investor sentiment in Europe has become more contested against the background of cost‑of‑living pressures, energy‑price volatility and industrial competitiveness debates.
- Focus on materiality – although ESG remains embedded in many investment processes, the former “automatic premium” for ESG branding has declined. Boards are expected to prioritise financially material, sector‑specific issues backed by clear evidence of outcomes.
Despite these pressures, core sustainability risks and opportunities – related to climate, nature, supply chains, reputation and cost – continue to grow. Evidence also points to sustained support for ESG:
- UK Net Zero Business Census 2025 – 79% of large organisations still view net zero as a strategic priority, driven by increasing supply‑chain expectations.
- Investor behaviour- ESG remains a major factor in M&A decision‑making, with more companies withdrawing from deals over ESG concerns, and sustainable funds continuing to attract net inflows.
- Consumer behaviour around 40–45% of European consumers consider sustainability in purchasing decisions, though only about 17% are willing to pay more.
Join us to examine these trends, share what they mean for your organisation, and explore the implications for sustainability professionals.
Hosts: Joss and Dominic, Terrafiniti’s founding partners.
Insights Q&A: Following the main session, we will remain online for an additional 30 minutes to answer questions and discuss how we have supported clients’ sustainability strategies over the past 25 years.
Don’t miss this opportunity to share experience and learning and find solutions to your sustainability challenges.
Want to join us at our next Sustainability Insights group meeting?
Register here to join the group and receive future invitations.
Future Sessions
Materiality Assessment | 14 May 2026
What have people said about the group?
It’s a great opportunity to share with peers. Joss and Dominic share a fantastic amount of knowledge with the Group.
Everyone was involved in the conversation and had the opportunity to contribute to the group dynamic.
Your approach is the best way to shape a network of experts ready to help each other. This is invaluable!
This is great - being surrounded by amazing minds.
Probably the best thing I've clicked
into in several years!
What have we covered?
We've explored materiality and what that means for sustainability professionals and their businesses, engaging with people in different roles on sustainability and greenwashing in business + much, much more ...
Preventing Greenwashing – what’s the role of sustainability professionals?
March 2026
This month, we explored what sustainability professionals could and should do to help drive out greenwashing - and the skills and competencies needed.
People in Sustainability
February 2026
As sustainability faces a range of challenges, it’s more important than ever to ensure buy-in, engagement and mobilisation of different people across your organisation.
Why Context is Critical for Strategy
January 2026
To succeed, companies need to understand their operating environment - the issues, trends and challenges that they need to navigate to deliver success. This means that context assessment should be the first step to effective strategy development.
Sustainability Management – what does good look like?
December 2025
What are the core elements of sustainability management, and how do they align to keep your efforts focused, embedded in your organisation, and primed to drive performance, transparency, and accountability?
Setting Sustainability Ambition
November 2025
Understanding and defining ambition is a crucial element of sustainability strategy and management. Sustainability Ambition relates to areas and aspects where the company has a degree of choice to decide what, where and how it acts.
Sustainability and Value Creation
October 2025
Recognising the full value of sustainability is now a strategic imperative. Missed opportunities can expose you to financial, legal, market, and reputational risks, but seizing them can enable innovation and future-proof your business.
Communicating Sustainability – navigating the challenges & building trust
September 2025
In this interactive session, we explored the complexities of sustainability and ESG communication and discussed how to build credibility and clarity.
Sustainable Transition - the fundamentals of good practice
June 2025
Extending the theme of sustainability strategy from our May meeting, in June we focused on the topic of sustainable transition – how organisations articulate, plan and undertake the journey from where they are now to where they need to be in the future.
Building Sustainability Strategy – the most important aspects for success
May 2025
If your organisation doesn’t have an up-to-date, relevant and integrated sustainability strategy then it can be open to multiple risks, but more importantly you might be missing out on valuable sustainability and business opportunities.
Reputation management – how to manage risk by association
April 2025
Reputation is widely regarded as one of the most valuable assets of an organisation – and sustainability can be an important contributor to both reputation and other dimensions of business value. In April’s meeting, we explored different dimensions of reputational risk, how it can be affected, and how you can protect it.