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David Craik, (Oct 2, 2019)
With divisions over Brexit damaging Britain’s social fabric, David Craik reports on how companies like Lush, SSE and Richer Sounds are trying to pair commercial growth with social progress
Terry Slavin, (Sep 27, 2019)
Climate Week New York saw companies form new coalitions to accelerate progress, such as the Business Avengers to champion the Global Goals and the One Planet Business for Biodiversity platform, while Climate Group’s RE100 passed the 200-member mark
Michael Green, (Sep 24, 2019)
Michael Green of the Social Progress Imperative calls for the richest countries to put their own houses in order as new index reveals that it will take until 2073 to meet the Global Goals, with climate change acting as a big brake on progress
Manuel Kiewisch, (Sep 12, 2019)
Empowering women is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving conditions in agricultural supply chains. But what does it mean in practice? Manuel Kiewisch of Mondelēz International shares lessons from the consumer goods company’s Cocoa Life programme
Terry Slavin, (Sep 4, 2019)
In the September issue of the magazine we take an in-depth look at how the resurgence of the EU carbon market and the expected launch of China's national carbon market are boosting hopes for prices that are high enough to drive decisive climate action around the world. In our second briefing, we investigate how companies report on the SDGs
Frances Seymour, (Aug 8, 2019)
Frances Seymour of World Resources Institute explains how the UN report confirms the importance of protecting forests in global strategies to fight climate change
Ed Long, (Aug 7, 2019)
In this Q&A, Ethical Corporation’s Head of US Operations Ed Long talks with Christopher Wellise, Chief Sustainability Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on how HPE is moving from a linear to a circular economy, leading on sustainability and disclosing ESG risks to investors
Oliver Balch, (Aug 5, 2019)
In the first part of his monthly round-up of sustainability news Oliver Balch looks at a pair of reports from the Food and Agriculture Organisation that are a curtain-raiser to this week’s report on the impact of climate change and land use from the IPCC
Ben Kellard, (Jul 1, 2019)
Amid climate change and ecosystem collapse, companies are under pressure from all sides to put make sustainability part of their core purpose. Ben Kellard of CISL invited 11 leading purpose and sustainability experts and practitioners to explore how best organisations should do this. This is what they came up with
James Magor, (Jun 26, 2019)
Despite a growing enthusiasm for impact investment, many asset owners are constrained because of a baffling array of unverified, opaque and incompatible measurement frameworks. James Magor of Actis says this is something his company is trying to help address with its open-source Actis Impact Score
Nathan Lobel, (Jun 7, 2019)
Nathan Lobel of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Christen Dobson of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre give nine suggestions for renewables companies to ensure they are advancing all the SDGs
Liam Dowd, (Jun 6, 2019)
In this year's Responsible Business Trends report from Ethical Corporation we found that 73% of corporate respondents want their companies to take more action to address climate risk
Liam Dowd, (May 20, 2019)
In an extract from the Responsible Business Trends Report 2019, Ethical Corporation's Liam Dowd says progress towards integrating the SDGs into business strategies is continuing
Julia Moshkin, (May 1, 2019)
Julia Moshkin of EcoVadis points to research showing that companies that have signed up to the initiative’s 10 principles perform significantly better on driving responsibility in their supply chains
Terry Slavin, (Mar 19, 2019)
Gender issues, financing the SDGs, and debate over CSR vs ESG were hot topics during the first day of Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York, reports Terry Slavin
Oliver Balch, (Mar 7, 2019)
Transparency in non-financial reporting; labour rights abuses by fashion brands; and FAO warnings on biodiversity are highlighted in Oliver Balch’s latest roundup of sustainability news
Linn Byberg, (Feb 13, 2019)
Linn Byberg of the Institute of Business Ethics says action on environmental issues now equals executive pay when it comes to public perceptions of corporate conduct
Terry Slavin, (Feb 6, 2019)
A dashboard developed by CISL's Investment Leaders Group, including PIMCO, Union Bancaire Privée and Zurich Insurance provides metrics to assess corporate social and environmental impact. Terry Slavin reports
Barbra Anderson, (Jan 22, 2019)
Barbra Anderson of Destination Better says that by having robust programmes in place, hotels will be better placed to address the risks of participating in modern slavery
Liam Dowd, (Jan 22, 2019)
In this Q&A, Ethical Corporation’s managing director Liam Dowd talks with Geert Paemen, director for sustainability and non-financial KPIs at the Spanish telecoms company, on Science Based Targets, engaging suppliers on climate action, the SDGs and opportunities for the next 12-18 months