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Incentivising Scope 3 reporting through regulation and policy
Not many organisations around the world report today on their Scope 3 emissions, despite the proposed priority, globally, in decarbonising business activities. To incentivise businesses and ... -
The time has come: KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2020
The KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2020 In the 11th edition of the KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting, KPMG professionals reviewed sustainability reporting from 5,200 companies ... -
State of Progress: Business contributions to the SDGs
A 2020-2021 study in support of the Sustainable Development Goals This research by GRI explores how a sample of 206 GRI reporters (companies reporting on their ... -
The value of sustainability reporting
Sustainability/ESG reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards is a crucial element for companies to succeed in the long term. Crucial not only in the effort ... -
License to operate – Millennials, Generation Z
The world is changing. Are you changing too? Millennials, who are today in decision-making positions and Generation Z, who hold our future in their hands, are ... -
Deloitte: Organisations should reinvent themselves around a human focus
According to Deloitte’s 219 Global Human Capital Trends survey, involving almost 1, respondents in 119 countries, an intensifying combination of economic, social, and political issues is, ... -
Spreadsheet-analysing money managers in control of trillion-dollar funds force polluters to change
Energy giant Shell announced, recently, a goal to halve its carbon footprint by 2050, including a reduction in pollution from cars that burn the company’s petrol ... -
SRI assets in the United States grow to $12.0 trillion, from $8.7 trillion in 2016
US SIF report: According to the US SIF Foundation’s 2018 biennial Report on US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends, sustainable, responsible and impact investing (SRI) ... -
Deloitte: Business leaders can win the loyalty of millennials by driving societal and economic change
According to the 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey, millennials today are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for positive social and political change, and are concerned about safety, ... -
“Hothouse Earth”: The Earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable due to global warming
According to a new study by an international team of scientists, even if the carbon emissions reduction targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement are achieved, ... -
Mintel research: Key 2018 consumer trends relate to sustainability
Major European consumer trends, identified by research firm Mintel for 2018 and beyond, relate to sustainability. They include: Sea change: More and more companies will focus ... -
The sustainability challenge: The aspect environmental ratings fail to consider
According to an article by Auden Schendler and Michael Toffel in MIT Sloan Management Review environmental rankings of businesses often fail to take into account advocacy activities ... -
The sustainability challenge: What are companies who gain from their sustainability efforts doing differently?
MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) carried out a global survey among over 4,000 executives and managers – including 2,874 respondents from ... -
Harvard study: How Green Buildings and CO2 affect your ability to think
Indoor built environment is, today, increasingly important for our overall well-being, taking into account the fact that we spend 90% of our time indoors and that ... -
Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK): Millennials love CSR
Based on the findings of relevant surveys, the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) identified a number of key behaviour patterns in millennial consumers (18- to 34-year-olds) ... -
Harvard Business School study: Companies implementing sustainability policies outperform those who fail to do so
Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim carried out a study exploring the impact of corporate sustainability on a company’s organizational procedures and performance, using ... -
Exposure to air pollution may result in infertility
48.5 million couples across the globe were estimated to be infertile in 2010, with exposure to air pollutants – especially PM, which affects more people than ... -
The sustainability challenge: Cooperating to achieve systemic change
According to an article by Peter M. Senge, Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Katrin Kaeufer, Hilary Bradbury and John S. Carroll in MIT Sloan Management Review, in the ... -
The sustainability challenge: How is the transition to sustainability to be achieved?
According to an article by Christoph Lueneburger and Daniel Golemon in MIT Sloan Management Review, consumer expectations regarding products’ environmental and/or social impacts, have changed. How ... -
The sustainability challenge: What is sustainability really about?
According to an article by John R. Ehrenfeld in MIT Sloan Management Review, many businesses today fail to take effective, meaningful action on sustainability challenges and ... -
A company’s environmental protection initiatives have a positive impact on its employees
Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting and outsourcing firm, in the context of the 2010 Best Employers in Canada and Best Small & Medium Employers in ... -
Morgan Stanley: Millennials sustainable investing continues to intensify
Morgan Stanley 2017 research results: Companies must engage with sustainable development or face being left out of investment decisions by Millennials, one of the largest generations in ... -
Climate change and food security
According to a recent report by Chatham House climate change, not least through extreme weather events, has resulted in major disruptions at ‘chokepoints’ along global food ... -
Key steps in developing sustainable business practices
According to research carried out between 2009 and 2017 by MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR) and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), across 118 countries and ... -
How sustainability makes your business more profitable through business model change
According to a survey by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) of over 2,600 executives and managers across a wide range of ... -
How to Build a Sustainable Business
According to a study by Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins and George Serafeim, comparing “sustainable” companies with “traditional” ones, building a sustainable company characterized by ... -
Harvard Business Review: Diversity Fosters Innovation and Market Growth
According to new research, based on a survey of 1,800 professionals, as well as on 40 case studies and many interviews and focus groups, . The ... -
Stanford Graduate School of Business: Diversity of Backgrounds and Personalities Strengthens Groups
According to Margaret A. Neale, the John G. McCoy-Banc One Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution, Stanford GSB (Graduate School of Business), workplace diversity across a ... -
MIT News: Gender diversity across a company increases productivity
A new study on workplace diversity, co-authored by MIT economist Dr. Sara Ellison, indicates that . According to Ellison, “a more diverse set of employees means ... -
Major Unilever Research: Potential untapped opportunity of €966 billion out of a €2.5 trillion total market for sustainable goods – 20,000 adults from five countries
According to a new, international study by Unilever, of 20,000 adults from five countries – Brazil, India, Turkey, the United Kingdom and United States – a ...
