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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

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Fourstar Connections: ​A ​Solutions-Based EMS Provider Taking on Sustainability, Increasing Market Share

Massachusetts-based Fourstar Connections, founded in 1986 as a cable assembly shop, has evolved into a comprehensive solution provider with an extensive portfolio of services and solutions to tackle a wide range of manufacturing needs. It also differ... View More

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Closing the Context Gap: How Companies Can Transform Degeneration to Regeneration

Part Seven in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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Integral Success Measurement for True Future Value Creation

Part Six in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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New CDP Research Finds Cities Catching Up to Companies on Water Security Development

International environmental reporting and data non-profit CDP has released new research in partnership with global infrastructure firm AECOM revealing that $9.5 billion worth of city water projects are now open for investment. ... View More

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Why Water Scarcity-Adjusted Targets Are Not Context-Based Water Targets

Around this time last year, during World Water Week in Stockholm, a session was hosted which sought to explore the concept of Context-Based Water Targets (CBWTs). ... View More

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US Cities Plagued by Poor Performance on SDGs

US cities still have a long way to go towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the first-ever US Cities SDG Index, which ranks the 100 most populous metropolitan areas in the US based on their performance on the SDGs. ... View More

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Purpose + Context = Connectedness

Part Four in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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Companies Committed to Sustainability But Which Rely on Old-Economy Metrics Will Never Get There from Here

A close friend and colleague of mine, Joe Firestone, once pointed out that along with new conceptions of the world (i.e., new paradigms) come corresponding requirements for new measurement models. We simply cannot measure things in old ways when the ... View More

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How to Transform Today’s ‘Senseless’ ESG Data Into Tomorrow’s Actionable Knowledge

Part Three in a 10-Part Series by Reporting 3.0. See previous parts below. ... View More

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Reporting 3.0’s Reporting Blueprint: Triggering a Regenerative, Inclusive and Open Economy

Part One of this 10-part series ended with a quick introduction of how Reporting 3.0 (R3) applies Integral Theory in our thinking. So we pick up this strand as our starting point for Part Two, which is devoted to introducing the Reporting Blueprint t... View More

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Digital Mapping Initiative Aims to Boost Transparency in Bangladeshi Garment Sector

With its sights set on reducing the social and environmental impacts of its garment sector, Bangladesh has launched an initiative to map all of its apparel factories. ... View More

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New Footprint Calculator, #MovetheDate Campaign Commemorate Earliest-Ever Earth Overshoot Day

To mark Earth Overshoot Day (August 2nd — the earliest to date) — the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year — international research organization Global Footprint Network has launc... View More

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Accenture Competitive Agility Index: Sustainability Could Unlock $1B for Auto, Industrial Companies

Interdependent business strategies are better poised to compete in future markets than those that boast one-dimensional strategies, according to new Accenture research. ... View More

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Reporting 3.0: Global Common Good R&D Market-Maker for a Regenerative, Distributive Economy

“There is no sustainable business in an unsustainable world.” This saying — a kind of Reporting 3.0 “motto” — is simultaneously contrarian and common sense: contrarian in the sense that it counters the prevailing tendency in the corporate... View More

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Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit Aims to Help Companies Better Assess Nature's Role, Value

Natural capital underpins prosperous economies and thriving societies. Understanding the interconnectedness between business and nature well as the associated risks and opportunities, allows companies to better inform decision-making. ... View More

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CDP: 70% of Global GHG Emissions Linked to Just 100 Companies

71 percent of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1988 can be traced to just 100 fossil fuel producers, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BHP Billiton and Gazprom, says a new report by CDP. ... View More

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SDG Progress Report Reveals Slow Start to Delivering on 2030 Agenda

Two years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, companies are finally beginning to align their sustainability strategies with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are increasingly being used to inform decisi... View More

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Going Deeper on Understanding, Measuring Transformational Change: Part 21

In 20 earlier parts of this series,Claire Sommer,Jill Lipotiand I developed 38 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields (Find them here.). ... View More

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Natural Capital Impact Group Develops Single Biodiversity Metric to Help Companies Reduce Impacts

To make it easier for companies to reduce their environmental impacts, businesses such as Kering, Interserve, Mars and Asda have banded together to develop a new healthy ecosystem metric designed to support companies as they make the transition to a ... View More

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The Road to Context: What You Need to Know About Contextual Strategy and Goal-Setting (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series exploring contextual strategy-making and goal-setting, we shared how our work with the corporate members of the Embedding Project, and their interest in understanding how to make sense of the methodologies, frameworks, tools ... View More

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