5 June, 2019
ESG catalysts: how consumers can change corporations
It is a cold December morning in Paris. A group of concerned investors is gathered in a conference room with a beautiful view. We are all there to discuss environmental, social and governance matters ...
4 June, 2019
New drive to integrate UN SDGs into corporate reporting
Efforts to place the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) front and centre of business thinking are to receive a shot in the arm following a new agreement to integrate them into corporate repor...
16 March, 2018
Paradigm shift: Jane Diplock, IIRC
Tipping points are sometimes hard to see when they’re actually happening. Much easier to spot them in retrospect, when the faultlines between the past and present are more easily defined. When it...
19 February, 2018
Integrated reporting the focus for ICGN-IIRC gathering
Companies must go further than historical financial performance and look to “integrated reporting” as a means to help investors fully understand risks and opportunities, according to the chief exe...
6 November, 2017
Sustainable development means securing the future of business
We need to turn our approach to sustainable development on its head. We need to get it out of our minds that committing to sustainable development is about doing ...
5 October, 2017
Reputation for the long term requires a change of attitude
Only a decade or so ago Deutsche Bank was one of the darlings of the investment banking world, winning headlines like “Deutsche Uber Alles” as it went around the globe gobbling up rivals and eatin...
1 August, 2017
Human capital disclosure – resist, comply or exploit?
On 6 July 2017, the Human Capital Management Coalit...
31 July, 2017
IIRC marks advances in integrated reporting, but ‘work to be done’ in US
The reach of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) increased by more than half during 2016, according to the body's annual report. The IIRC also celebrated bringing on board China's...
20 July, 2017
Drax builds sustainability credentials with Nussbaum appointment
In a sign that sustainability issues have moved to the centre of corporate thinking, David Nussbaum, a former chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has become a non-executive direct...
14 July, 2017
