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

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3 Big Questions Shaping the Future of Sustainable Business in 2019

This year, we are dissecting big, open questions that could either speed up or slow down our quest toward Delivering the Good Life. ... View More

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SB Nordic: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

So, what do a slave-free chocolate brand, an activist bank and a blindfolded panel of diversity experts have in common? ... View More

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How Your Company Can Tackle Toxics in 2019

Brands should take note of a new retail sustainability trend that responds to growing consumer demand for healthier products and full ingredient disclosure. ... View More

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Scenario Analysis: Determine Your Business’ Resilience to Climate Change

Prepare for the costly effects by creating different scenarios to predict the impacts of climate change on your current and future financial performance. ... View More

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The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: How Do I Start?

Look at it as a tool with which to solve the underlying puzzles posed by the sustainability challenge. ... View More

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How Caesars Supports the SDGs – and How Your Organization Can, Too

As part of our CSR strategy, we strategically aligned our programming based on three Sustainable Development Goals. ... View More

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L'Oréal, Firmenich Top CDP’s A-Lists for Climate, Water, Deforestation

CDP scored over 6,800 companies from A to D-; only the top 2% made the A Lists. ... View More

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2019: The Year of the Civic CEO

New mediums of communication, power and trust produced the Civic CEO, and she is here to stay. ... View More

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Is Employee Engagement One of Your New Year Resolutions?

An engaged workforce is critical to an organization’s success, no matter what products or services you’re selling. ... View More

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Building the Next Generation of Sustainable Fashion Leaders

There is a clear opportunity to transition to a more conscious approach to fashion, and up-and-coming designers have great potential to help influence this shift. ... View More

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3 Top Sustainability Issues in 2019 and How to Address Them

Once seen as a ‘nice to have’ for businesses, sustainability has become a vital component of many global organisations’ social and economic strategies. ... View More

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2018 Millennial Manifesto Poses Provocative Challenge to Sustainable Brands

To bring companies closer to young people and to enable this proximity to drive enhanced brand innovation capacity — in essence, this is the ambition of the Millennials Lab, created in the Rio 2015 edition of Sustainable Brands, and which is now pr... View More

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Why Environmental Changes Are a Growing Public Health Crisis

Three years ago in Paris, Dignity Health was privileged to be among the delegations from around the world that came to consensus on how we needed to urgently curb our carbon emission rates or face irreparable harm. Now, as many of those same represen... View More

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Future Shock: Is Higher Education Ready for the Impact?

The McConnell Foundation and the Canadian Association of University Business Officers are piloting measures to accelerate and scale the role of universities in putting society on a sustainable path. ... View More

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Q&A: How Social Design Is Creating New Markets, More Engaged Cultures

This is one of a series of interviews by students and alumni from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) with practitioners from the Sustainable Brands community, on a variety of ways organizations can, and are, Redesigning the Good Life. ... View More

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Trending: Closer Looks into Reporting on, Business Benefits of the SDGs

Nearly three-quarters of organisations surveyed (72 percent) mention the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their annual corporate or sustainability reports — an increase of 10 percent on last year, according to a new study by PwC. But conc... View More

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Atlanta: A Dark Horse in Sustainability Innovation

Atlanta may not be the first city that comes to mind when you think of sustainability — but perhaps, it should be. ... View More

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Q&A: South Pole on Its Next-Gen Climate Neutrality Certification

With the urgency of reducing our carbon footprint becoming more visible by the day, it’s great to see more and more brands making claims about their carbon reductions. ... View More

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New Tool Reveals $1.6T Risk of Failing to Account for Natural Capital

Following the release last month of its groundbreaking guide to help financial institutions understand and assess their reliance on natural capital, this week the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA) launched the world’s first comprehensive tool... View More

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Self-Disrupt to Redesign the Future of Work

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller ... View More

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