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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Addressing Corporate Scope 3 Value Chain GHG Emissions: Part 1

Published on June 26, 2018

About a 3 minute read

To keep the global temperature increase to well below 2⁰C and meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement, everyone must take bold action to reduce their share of emissions as soon as possible. Companies are responsible for the majority of globa... View More

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Interface Moving from Net Zero to Climate Positive by Rethinking Factories as Forests

Published on June 13, 2018

About a 6 minute read

With 3.8 billion years of R&D behind Earth’s systems and creatures, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what we can learn and how we can apply those lessons to our companies, products and processes. ... View More

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Houdini Sportswear Launches Industry-First Planetary Boundaries Assessment

Published on June 4, 2018

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More and more clothing brands are taking it upon themselves to dive deeper into the impacts of their garments, increasing transparency around and improving their materials, processes and operations as a whole. ... View More

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Trucost’s New Evaluation Tool Will Help Companies Align Strategy with the SDGs

Published on May 10, 2018

About a 3 minute read

The private sector has been mobilizing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. But corporations are also in constant pursuit of returning shareholder value, and as such, ne... View More

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AkzoNobel Puts ‘True Price’ on Natural, Social Capital; Increases Business Value

Published on May 10, 2018

About a 3 minute read

“Organizations rely on a diverse set of ‘capitals’ to function effectively,” says Emma Ringström, Sustainability Manager, Pulp and Performance Chemicals at AkzoNobel. By measuring these, she says, “We can find ways to make the most impactf... View More

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Q&A: Pure Strategies on 20 Years in the Sustainability Trenches

Published on April 3, 2018

About a 7 minute read

This month, Pure Strategies celebrates 20 years of providing sustainability consulting to companies such as Stonyfield Farms, Ben & Jerry’s, Seventh Generation and Walmart. Its team has been helping to build leading strategies, improve products... View More

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New Approaches, Tools for Ethical Sourcing of Conflict Minerals

Published on March 15, 2018

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A multi-industry initiative has introduced new protocols and tools for the responsible sourcing of tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold, and cobalt, as well as social, environmental and governance impacts of the extraction and processing of raw materials in... View More

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First-of-Its-Kind Report Examines Global Environmental Impacts of Fashion Industry

Published on March 1, 2018

About a 4 minute read

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

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GoodWell ‘Mind the Gap’ Initiative to Create Common Methodology to Measure Pay Inequality

Published on February 20, 2018

About a 2 minute read

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

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Counting What Counts: The Evolution of New Metrics

Published on December 21, 2017

About a 8 minute read

We've come a long way since the first New Metrics conference seven years ago. ... View More

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How to Try Context-Based Sustainability in 3 Easy Steps

Published on December 11, 2017

About a 10 minute read

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

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The Future of Brand Impact and How It’s Measured

Published on November 28, 2017

About a 5 minute read

The new wave of conscious consumption, driven largely by millennials and Gen Z, is pushing companies to innovate around social causes. ... View More

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#NewMetrics, Day 3: Digging Even Deeper Into Next-Generation Impact Metrics

Published on November 17, 2017

About a 19 minute read

Live Well San Diego: A visionary partnership to define and measure 10 quality-of-life metrics By Anna Shugoll ... View More

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AT&T, BASF, Cabot, HPE and More Show #NewMetrics in Action

Published on November 15, 2017

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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

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Evolution of Disclosure, CEO Engagement, Measuring What Matters Take Center Stage at #NewMetrics

Published on November 14, 2017

About a 7 minute read

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

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State, Regional Governments Outshine National Counterparts on Climate Action

Published on November 13, 2017

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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

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By Not Accounting for Nature, Business Is Reporting Fake Profits

Published on November 13, 2017

About a 2 minute read

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

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Is It Possible That GRI Has Never Really Been About Sustainability Reporting at All?

Published on November 7, 2017

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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

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QuadReal Property Group Navigates the ‘Road to Context’

Published on November 6, 2017

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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

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Commons or Uncommons? A Dialogue on Allocating Responsibility for Meeting Thresholds

Published on October 25, 2017

About a 10 minute read

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

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