Sustainable Brands Insights

Understanding the latest sustainability trends, consumer insights and industry-specific best practices is essential for today's leading brands to stay competitive. We launched SBInsights as a platform to provide the brands community with access to some of the most innovative research on the market today; from learning your industry's best practices around CSR to understanding what consumers are searching for "beyond green," our research provides businesses with actionable information to keep you one step ahead of the market.

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ACCOUNTABILITY VERSUS ACTION Even as “green” becomes increasingly top of mind, Americans still struggle with their role in the lifecycle of products with an environmental benefit. Nine-in-10 said...
Experts see a world facing greater risks this year than last, according to Global Risks 2013 — the World Economic Forum’s latest annual assessment of global risk — and they rank environmental risks...
This latest Carbon Disclosure Project supply chain report shows growing corporate awareness of the business risks of climate change and increasing corporate action to address it. In a...
A country’s credit rating could suffer if it fails to manage environmental risks adequately. This is the central message of this new analysis by the United Nations Environment...
This new report by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) outlines both alarming challenges and promising opportunities for investors in the so-called soft commodities: agricultural, forest and seafood...
Green products are often positioned as luxury items, the choice of affluent consumers who view environmentalism as an expression of personal style. The environmental attitudes of lower-income...
Americans increasingly believe that global warming is affecting the weather and that the weather is getting worse. This study conducted at the end of this summery by the Yale Project on Climate...
Firms that have adopted environmental standards such as ISO 14001 have significantly more productive workers than other firms. This is the key finding of this paper published this month in the...
This study, released by NRDC last month, contained statistics that may cause indigestion in some readers. “Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy...
This study found that energy-intensive companies operating in regions where carbon emissions are taxed can boost their stock prices by reducing carbon emissions. Merely announcing emissions...