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Organizational Governance

How organizations are addressing the 'G' in ESG – striking the balance of maximizing long-term growth and value while safeguarding the interests of all stakeholders

Today’s Workforce Is Woefully Underprepared for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Two recent studies point out that workers largely lack both the hard and soft skills necessary to help future-proof their organizations in a climate-challenged world. Read More...

New Research Offers Pathway to More Inclusive Travel Industry

First-of-its-kind study from Expedia Group takes an intersectional approach to uncover barriers to travel for underserved communities and help industry eliminate barriers including access, discrimination and lack of personal safety. Read More...

Avoiding Greenwashing Accusations Requires Cross-Functional Collaboration

Misleading consumers on sustainability initiatives will not grow a business, and the legal and reputational ramifications only reinforce that the exaggeration of environmental claims will not deliver on ROI. Here are two tips from our sustainability journey in the wellness space. Read More...

Travel Companies Signal Sustainability Focus With Scientists on Staff

These shifts in hospitality and tourism offerings are increasingly essential as conscious consumerism becomes mainstream and addressing the climate crisis becomes essential for preservation of the industry. Read More...

How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon

How can buyers and sellers of carbon credits ensure the projects they choose will have the desired impacts and climate outcomes? Read More...

In Sustainability, How Much Is ‘Enough’?

If your sustainability efforts cannot withstand increasingly tough questions from executives and Board members, your company is not approaching it in the right way. This framework will help you be ready the next time someone asks, ‘how much is enough?’ Read More...

Companies Mitigating Climate Change Reduce Their Cost of Capital

New research shows that when companies disclose their environmental impact — and take meaningful action to mitigate it — they earn investor trust. Read More...

Employee Survey Uncovers Crisis in Workplace Climate Engagement

93% of workers don’t know how to apply their company’s sustainability strategy to their work, 77% are unhappy with employers’ lack of climate action, and 52 percent think their employer is likely to greenwash. Read More...

Leading Academics Urge UN to Extend, Reframe SDGs

10 distinguished climate researchers have called on the UN to give its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a much-needed refresh — by extending the timeline to 2050 and providing greater clarity around specific goals, among other recommendations. Read More...

Latest Ban on ‘High-Carbon’ Ads Shows Appetite for Clean-Energy Transition

Edinburgh’s recent ban on ads for fossil fuels and other high-carbon products exemplifies a desire to shift those ad spaces toward cleaner, more viable alternatives and ads that promote low-carbon behaviors. Read More...

The Purpose of Governance: Bridging the Say-Do Gap

If Boards acknowledge their fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of a company as defined by its purpose — and work with management to adopt a social purpose as the company’s reason for being and have oversight of the purpose — it can help propel the purpose economy into a formidable force for good. Read More...

Engaging with LGBTQ+ Consumers Offers Brands Both Risk and Reward

As brands grapple with their position on LGBTQIA+ issues and building inclusivity and diversity across their businesses, the latest Outvertising Consumer Report offers plenty of advice for being more effective. Read More...

Report: Food & Beverage Sustainability Plans Missing Critical Levers

A new Quantis report has identified several common gaps in company strategies that will keep businesses sustainability targets out of reach and five key priorities for companies to adopt. Read More...

LEGO Employee Pay Now Linked to Meeting Climate Goals

The toymaker has announced a new annual KPI to encourage all salaried employees to help the company lower emissions across its factories, stores and offices around the world. Read More...

From Theory to Practice: Uncovering Synergies to Drive Tangible Impact

This week at SB Brand-Led Culture Change, layered discussions examined the complex potential of AI to optimize sustainability impact, as well as how to achieve internal alignment across departments with perceived different priorities. Read More...

Leading the Change: Takeaways from the B Lab Champions Retreat

What if we centered our work and lives around showing up for ourselves, others and the planet? Here are three takeaways from the recent B Lab Champions Retreat on how we can turn talk into action. Read More...

The SBTi Drama Underscores the Urgent Need for Valid Scope 3 Solutions

Whether carbon credits ought to be used to account for Scope 3 emissions is a debate that must continue — involving many more stakeholders, so that views on both sides of the fence are heard and considered. Read More...

Interface Commits to Carbon Negativity, Without Offsets, by 2040

The sustainability leader sets out to hit its climate goals through direct carbon reduction and carbon storage — and challenges industry peers to do the same. Read More...

Science-Based Climate Targets Key to Sustainable Tourism

Regardless of whether a travel-related company has submitted its commitments to SBTi; setting specific, quantifiable, time-bound goals is essential for meaningfully reducing climate-changing emissions. Read More...

New Report Helps Companies Stop Bankrolling Climate Change

'Carbon Bankroll 2.0' illuminates the huge, untapped climate impact of the US financial system — how it is undermining leading companies’ climate action, and why companies’ financial management may be their greatest lever for climate progress. Read More...

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