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Terry Slavin, (Oct 7, 2021)
In the latest issue of Sustainable Business Review, we look at how soaring gas prices are undermining emission-reduction pledges, the potential for Google's greening of its search engine to empower conscious consumption, and how aviation and chemicals companies are feeling the heat from ESG investors
Terry Slavin, (May 30, 2021)
Terry Slavin reports on how San Francisco non-profit Rainforest Connection is recording sounds to protect nature in a dozen countries in partnership with Google, Huawei and Hitachi Vantara
Robert Wigley, (Apr 13, 2021)
COMMENT: Robert Wigley argues that regulators have a duty to ensure companies that control the internet serve society, not just their own profit and loss accounts.
Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 25, 2020)
No longer the plucky underdog, the growing renewables industry risks losing its license to operate unless it generates co-benefits. Mark Hillsdon reports on how RE100 members Google, Iron Mountain, Clif Bar, Chanel and Novo Nordisk are amplifying their impact
Terry Slavin, (Apr 23, 2020)
Terry Slavin rounds up corporate Earth Day news from around the globe, starting with Timberland’s open letter to nature video
Oliver Balch, (Mar 27, 2020)
Oliver Balch reports on how business has responded during an unprecedented week for the global economy
Terry Slavin, (Jun 27, 2019)
The July issue of Ethical Corporation looks at how companies are using technologies like AI and blockchain to cut GHG emissions in transport and energy and improve conditions for workers in commodity supply chains. In our second briefing, we examine the role of women in the sector and speak to the Asian startups using tech to address social need
Angeli Mehta, (Jun 24, 2019)
Angeli Mehta looks at how companies such as Verv, DeepMind, Vigilent, Novacab and Nnergix are employing machine learning to help them rise to the climate challenge
Peter Montagnon, (Jun 24, 2019)
Peter Montagnon of the Institute of Business Ethics says the skills needed to address the challenges of AI require less a technical mastery of its inner workings than for directors to know how to ask the right questions, and to trust the answers they receive
Diana Rojas, (Jun 20, 2018)
At this month's AGM Alphabet employees said lack of diversity at the tech giant leaves them feeling unsafe while ESG investors called for executive pay linked to progress on inclusion metrics. Diana Rojas reports on an issue that is not going to go away for the entire tech sector
Ben Hayman, (Mar 3, 2018)
Ben Hayman of brand purpose agency Given argues that the consumer goods giant’s ultimatum that it will pull advertising from platforms that publish toxic content plays well with parents, but shows the challenges of delivering 'purpose' in a digital world
Rosie Warin, (Feb 14, 2018)
Rosie Warin of Kin&Co says with more than half of workers saying their companies’ marketing does not reflect reality, firms put themselves at risk if they don’t make hard changes internally first
Martin Wright, (Jan 16, 2018)
Martin Wright looks at the plethora of efforts to try to avoid unintended consequences from the powerful new technologies
Martin Wright, (Jan 16, 2018)
From cleaning up city transport systems to bringing transparency to supply chains, AI and deep learning have the potential to transform sustainability
Oliver Balch, (Oct 25, 2017)
In a new series of in-depth profiles of the people transforming business for good, Oliver Balch talks to Google's head of sustainability about the challenges of ensuring the giant tech company is doing no evil to the planet
Martin Wright, (Feb 27, 2017)
The IT giant has proved that eco-efficient architecture is no more expensive than conventional building methods
