Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
By Annette Risberg and Laurence Romani ◦ 2 min read ◦ Labor integration of migrants is a topic frequently on the public and political agendas, as...
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
By Annette Risberg and Laurence Romani ◦ 2 min read ◦ Labor integration of migrants is a topic frequently on the public and political agendas, as...
Sustainable Visioning as a driver of Corporate Transformation By Heather Louise Madsen ◦ 4 min read ◦ CO2 reduction is a hot topic for almost every...
By Peter Lund-Thomsen ◦ 2 min read ◦ The garment and textile industries account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions, and their fast fashion approach...
By Laura Krumm ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is not news anymore that a change of consumer behavior is needed in order to...
Lara Anne Hale Artificial intelligence (AI) is championed as being the future driver of business: everything from human resources to surgery is supposed to...
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.
The overconsumption of sugar, especially among children, and its long-term health risks re-gained public awareness with the introduction of the British soda tax in 2018. What can we learn for 2019?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
The days of corporate greening are over. Many companies kicked off their sustainability strategies decades ago by picking the low-hanging fruit. But there is nothing left within arm’s reach to pick. Now we expect companies big and small to demonstrate their contribution to broader societal and environmental sustainability challenges beyond firm boundaries.
By Lara Anne Hale. Smart Cities 101 Last week I had the pleasure of being one of eight students to join the University of...
By Daniel Lundgaard. There is a saying on online forums that “About 78% of all statistics shared online are made up to prove a...
By Valentina De Marchi. How can firms change for sustainability? As political and societal pressures increase, and more and growing evidence supports a business...
Governments can play a significant role in promoting or shaping the social responsibility of businesses. This post shows some recent policies which foster the public good.
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
By Oliver Laasch. An ApPeaRange! Business models are logics of value proposition (Pr), creation (Cr), exchange (Ex) and capture (Ca). When closely looking at...
By Isabel Fróes As Bowie almost made a prediction when he sang in his lyrics from 1981: ‘It’s the terror of knowing what this world...