New Metrics
The new and evolving metrics that are helping expand the way businesses create, quantify, manage and report their impacts – and the value they deliver
First-of-Its-Kind Report Examines Global Environmental Impacts of Fashion Industry
Measuring Fashion: Insights from the Environmental Impact of the Global Footwear Industries Study considers the industries’ value chains across seven stages — from fiber production and material extraction to end-of-life. ... View More
GoodWell ‘Mind the Gap’ Initiative to Create Common Methodology to Measure Pay Inequality
Without a uniform, universally accepted and publicly available measurement methodology, companies large and small wanting to eradicate the pay gap are often left wondering where to start. ... View More
Counting What Counts: The Evolution of New Metrics
We've come a long way since the first New Metrics conference seven years ago. ... View More
How to Try Context-Based Sustainability in 3 Easy Steps
At the closing of the New Metrics '17 conference in Philadelphia last month, attendees were asked: “What ‘New Metric’ will you go back and implement in 2017/2018?” The overriding response tabulated in real time and displayed on the big scree... View More
The Future of Brand Impact and How It’s Measured
The new wave of conscious consumption, driven largely by millennials and Gen Z, is pushing companies to innovate around social causes. ... View More
#NewMetrics, Day 3: Digging Even Deeper Into Next-Generation Impact Metrics
Live Well San Diego: A visionary partnership to define and measure 10 quality-of-life metrics By Anna Shugoll ... View More
AT&T, BASF, Cabot, HPE and More Show #NewMetrics in Action
While measurement, disclosure and other forms of engagement were the dominant themes yesterday, day two of New Metrics ’17 saw brands, NGOs and solution providers digging deeper to reveal practical applications and concrete findings from where the ... View More
Evolution of Disclosure, CEO Engagement, Measuring What Matters Take Center Stage at #NewMetrics
As Sustainable Brands' New Metrics '17 conference kicked off in Philadelphia on Monday, speakers from SASB, CSRLab, WRI, the World Happiness Summit and more presented a range of topics revolving around a few common themes: Correctly measuring what ma... View More
State, Regional Governments Outshine National Counterparts on Climate Action
Corresponding with the kick off of the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference (COP23), CDP has released a new report finding that over 100 of the world’s state and regional governments are taking action to address climate change, particularly in the sho... View More
By Not Accounting for Nature, Business Is Reporting Fake Profits
We need to make better decisions to avoid the potentially severe consequences for businesses operating in a deteriorated environment. The social and environmental megatrends will, over time, act as a drag on prosperity as the costs of basic inputs su... View More
Is It Possible That GRI Has Never Really Been About Sustainability Reporting at All?
September marked the fifth anniversary of a public comment that I and 65 other members of the Sustainability Context Group submitted to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the run-up to G4. ... View More
QuadReal Property Group Navigates the ‘Road to Context’
Our corporate partners were increasingly being asked to contextualize their sustainability goals and performance. They wanted to understand what tools were available and how to approach the issue of context. The Embedding Project’s Road to Context ... View More
Commons or Uncommons? A Dialogue on Allocating Responsibility for Meeting Thresholds
Sustainability requires contextualization within thresholds. That’s what sustainability is all about. Allen White, co-founder, Global Reporting Initiative The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Plato, Charmides, 380 BCE ... View More
TSC, Cool Farm Alliance Helping Food Companies Better Manage Farm-Level Sustainability Data
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and the Cool Farm Alliance (CFA) — a nonprofit industry platform and creator of the Cool Farm Tool sustainable agriculture calculator — have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve alignment and reporti... View More
Can Performance Reporting for Different Companies Be Both Context-Based and Comparable?
One of the hallmarks of context-based sustainability (CBS) as an approach to performance accounting in business is that it features the use of organization- or company-specific metrics. Indeed, a basic tenet of CBS is that no two organizations are ex... View More
Mapping Maturation Pathways & Building Bridges to an Integral Economy
Part Ten in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. “If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there,” U.S. baseball icon (and meister of understated irony) Yogi Berra famously stated. This quip accurately descr... View More
GRI Analysis Paves the Way for Common SDG Reporting Standard
As more businesses make moves to align their operations and strategies with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for a common framework for reporting on the impacts and contributions of companies to the SDGs becomes more apparent. ... View More
Sustainability Targets + Science: The Smart Business Equation
A new sense of readiness and willingness from companies is transforming how businesses approach responsible growth. Corporate sustainability is no longer viewed as a trend, but as a necessity. That’s why leading companies across the U.S. and the gl... View More
Activation & Acceleration: Catalyzing Context-Driven Stakeholders
Part Nine in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More
Scalability: Upshifting from Micro- to Macro-Level Sustainability
Part Eight in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More
