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
From Reporting Checkbox to Strategy Input: The New Case for Double Materiality
For years, double materiality assessments have been treated as a box to check ahead of CSRD reporting deadlines. With that scope now narrowing, sustainability teams are left asking what the exercise is actually for, and the answer emerging is a shift... View More
Nature as Shareholder: Reimagining Ownership
As businesses pursue sustainability to ensure their resilience, a novel approach invites us to reimagine how business and nature can achieve mutual benefit. ... View More
How Sustainability Perception Continues to Shape Brand Value
Brand Finance determines whether public perception of brand sustainability commitments aligns with their performance — and the financial risks associated with any gap. ... View More
Speaking Their Language: Selling Shareholders on the Value of Purpose
It’s strategic fluency. The clearer we are about how intangibles deliver value, the more likely we are to see them protected and prioritised in decision-making. ... View More
Shining a Light on the Business Benefits of Sustainability
Linking sustainability initiatives to financial metrics will not only reveal the many ways they add value — it will also help silence detractors. ... View More
First-of-Their-Kind Metrics Guide Supply Chain Transition to Safer Chemistry
Replacing hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives across supply chains is one of sustainable business’s biggest challenges. The Safer Chemistry Impact Fund reveals an actionable roadmap to address toxic chemical pollution across consumer produc... View More
GSK, Kering Among Companies Setting Bar for Nature Strategies
Business for Nature’s ‘It’s Now for Nature’ campaign highlights the strategies of five companies leading the charge and invites others to start their journey to developing and publishing their own biodiversity policies. ... View More
The Only Value Sustainability Can’t Possibly Have
Right now, far too much of the business world is giving sustainability a value of zero, when nothing could be farther from the truth. ... View More
Early Adopters Share Insights from Piloting Science-Based Targets for Nature
Pilot companies say the newfound understanding of their impacts and dependencies on nature is helping change mindsets internally regarding the urgency of meaningful action. ... View More
Nature Positive Initiative Aims to Promote Alignment, Integrity in Race to Save Global Biodiversity
The NPI will clarify and standardize the term ‘nature positive;’ and drive synergies across the many actors supporting and implementing changes towards the goal of halting and reversing nature loss by 2030. ... View More
Introducing Resilience Science: A Visionary Shift for Corporate Strategy and Reporting
Climate resilience is the ‘resilience of a company’s strategy and business model to climate-related changes, developments and uncertainties.’ This language is worth reflecting on, as it brings the concept of resilience science into mainstream b... View More
We Need to Choose Better Intensity Metrics; Here's How
The availability and measurability of data is critical in determining the right metric. Quantifying ‘social good,’ for example, is nebulous; if the metrics we select give us no ability to measurably improve them, then our work is for naught. ... View More
At Long Last, There’s a Metric for Quantifying the Monetary Value of Sustainability Investments
Astanor Ventures’ Impact Multiple on Investment methodology translates the expected and realized benefits of invested-in products or services into monetary terms — helping investors make more informed, strategic decisions. ... View More
The Materiality Matrix Is Like Grandma’s Ham
The key lesson is to question older practices to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose. After all, practices can morph over time to the point they become ends in themselves — so ubiquitous that no one questions them. ... View More
COP15: ‘Environmental DNA’ Technology Enables World-First Nature Performance-Monitoring Service
NatureMetrics says new platform represents breakthrough in understanding and managing our impact on nature — providing simple, standardized metrics to track and report on site-based nature impacts. ... View More
New Metrics, New Narrative, New Models Reflect New Approaches to Ensuring Targeted Impacts
One of many recurring themes at SB’22 San Diego was the need for a new lexicon and new metrics for the regeneration movement, which more accurately reflect the level of work and transformation needed to not only avert climate collapse but to enable... View More
UN Releases Manual for Companies to Conduct Authentic, Context-Based Sustainability Assessments
The Sustainable Development Performance Indicators help close the ‘Sustainability Context Gap’ — in which less than 1% of sustainability reports produced from 2000-2013 measured corporate performance in the context of ecological sustainability ... View More
Empty Words: US' 47 Largest Carbon-Emitters Fail to Incentivize CEO Pay Based on Climate Performance
A new report analyzes the executive compensation packages of 47 of the US’s most carbon-emitting companies. Where climate-related compensation ties were claimed, most were negligible, non-quantitative and lacked specific, climate-related pay incent... View More
Quantifying the Benefits of Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Metric for Game-Changing Climate Action
The W+ Standard is the first globally recognized framework that measures and monetizes women’s empowerment. Empower Co. is engaging with companies keen to cement their women’s-empowerment programs with robust data — and shift the mindset around... View More
