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
Navigating a Sea of Sustainability Tools Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard
Frontier Co-Op has always been a recognized leader in sustainability, and it remains an industry leader given its cooperative governance structure, organic and fair trade products, commitment to give back 1%, and Well Earth program for supplier devel... View More
SDGs Becoming More Prominent in Sustainability Reporting, But Challenges Remain
One year after the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) proudly announced that nearly a third of its members are communicating on the SDGs, just as United ... View More
Practice What You Preach Can Now Be Measured
There’s a new wave of research that is measuring whether companies’ purpose matches their actions. What it’s found my not be surprising: Globally, there is a purpose-action gap among corporate brands. “It’s time to move from thought leaders... View More
Where Does Your Brand Fall on the Sustainability Maturity Scale?
“For many organizations, the largest challenge is to implement sustainable initiatives.” So stated Daniela Pigosso, co-founder of management consultant firm Essensus, as we began one of the first round of workshops at SB’16 Copenhagen. For the ... View More
How Becoming Future-Fit Is Helping The Body Shop in Its Quest for 'True Sustainability'
“I think we have to be challenging to each other. If we look at the state of the planet, and we look at the performance of business, there’s something not working there.” Chris Davis, The Body Shop’s international CSR and campaigns director, ... View More
5 Commonly Missed Opportunities in Corporate Sustainability
Sustainability has finally gone mainstream (or, at least, the desire to be seen as doing important work around sustainability and benefit from sustainability credentials has gone mainstream). Well, OK, at the very, very least the desire to be seen as... View More
Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 5: Why Setting Science-Based Targets Isn't Enough
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. This is the fifth and final part of the series; find the other parts here: Part 1: Why do we need to set sc... View More
Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 4: Making the Internal Business Case for Science-Based Targets
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. This is the fourth in the series; find the other parts here: Part 1: Why do we need to set science-based ta... View More
Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 3: Why Should Companies Set Science-Based Targets?
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. This is the third in the series; find the other parts here: Part 1: Why do we need to set science-based tar... View More
Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 2: What Exactly Is a Science-Based Target?
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. Read part one. To put it simply, a carbon emissions target is defined as science-based if it is in line wit... View More
Setting the Bar High Enough: The Case for Science-Based Targets on Climate Change
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. ... View More
CISL Reveals Insights from Testing Natural Capital Protocol, Launches Protocol Application Program
With increasing pressure on natural resources and the accompanying impact on the environment, more businesses are beginning to realize the importance of properly valuing the natural resources upon which they depend. To do this they need to include �... View More
Natural Capital Protocol Promises to ‘Revolutionize’ Business Value, Decision-Making
Two years in the making, the first global Natural Capital Protocol was launched today. The standardized framework brings together and builds on a number of approaches that already exist to help business measure and value natural capital. The Natural ... View More
It Is Time to Develop and Apply a Set of Standardized Sustainability Metrics
Efforts to measure corporate sustainability performance are now rampant. Many companies are actively working to improve the measurement of their sustainability impact; a Google search of “corporate sustainability metrics” yields 1.25 million resu... View More
Leaders Discuss Paths to Health, Well-Being and Net Positive at the SHINE Summit 2016
Last week Harvard’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net Positive Enterprise (SHINE) hosted its annual Net Positive Summit to showcase the latest trends in well-being and health, and how they factor into creating Net Positive impacts. SHINE... View More
New Science Advisory Council Looks to Shape Ag Sustainability Measurement
Yesterday, Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture announced the launch of a new Science Advisory Council focused on informing the membership-based organization’s “science-based approach to delivering sustainable outcomes at the... View More
The Body Shop Is Using the Future-Fit Business Benchmark to 'Enrich Not Exploit' - and You Can, Too
We have entered a new era: the Anthropocene, an era characterized by humans as the dominant influence on climate and the environment. We are causing changes at such an unprecedented rate that it has been called ‘the Great Acceleration.’ We are we... View More
Sustainability Investing Evolving, But Much More Change Needed
“I think we’re upright and we’re walking, but there’s no higher cortex functions yet,” said Gregory Unruh, sustainability editor at MIT Sloan Management Review, discussing where we stand in sustainable business evolution during a Tuesday br... View More
ThriveAbility: A Framework for Improving Capitalism, Activating Purpose
On the week’s theme of Activating Purpose, ThriveAbility Foundation co-founders Robin Wood, Ralph Thurm and Bill Baue led a Monday morning workshop on “thriveability,” their model for a regenerative, multi-capital economy. ... View More
BSR, Forum for the Future Partner to Help Companies Quantify, Execute on Net Positive Goals
This morning at SB’16 San Diego, BSR and Forum for the Future launched the Net Positive Project, a cross-sector coalition that aims to expand the number of companies that go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a �... View More
