The pandemic shows that nature-related business risks are intensifying. A new report provides a route map for business action to safeguard nature.

Denmark is leading a trend to impose restrictions on bail-outs, favouring business models that focus on stakeholders rather than shareholders.

Schroders and Hermes EOS warn boards that top executives must “share the pain” of the economic downturn, with pay “aligned with the experience of the wider workforce”.

The Covid-19 pandemic does not render us completely helpless. Large corporations, small businesses and communities can work together to build a sustainable future.

Better assessment is needed to deliver the “decade of action” on the UN SDGs ahead of us. Supreme Audit Institutions aim to meet this global challenge.

The World Economic Forum event at Davos has embraced the debate over stakeholder capitalism, as businesses and regulators seek to create long-term value.

The framework aims to guide companies and lawmakers towards policies and practices that help “profitably solve the problems of people and planet”.

Business Roundtable, a body whose members include the chief executives of Accenture and Amazon, has issued a new set of principles on corporate purpose and sustainable business strategy.

Abenomics—or “Japan’s Revitalisation Strategy”—is awakening the concept of investor stewardship and focusing the minds of Japan’s corporate elite on how to improve governance standards.

The need for boards to focus on the long-term value of their organisations is by now well known, but communicating this clearly to stakeholders is crucial if they are to regain public trust and remain sustainable.