The Future Of Corporate Responsibility (Georg Kell)

The modern corporate sustainability movement started in the late 1990s, in the wake of globalization debates and the Battle of Seattle. Since then it has grown and matured enormously. Investors are beginning to realize that the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can enhance performance. We are now at the brink of an…

Unilever Calls for Reform in Influencer Marketing; Brings #Unstereotype Vision to Life Through Dance

At the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity this week, Unilever announced commitments to improve transparency in its influencer marketing and called on industry to similarly help improve authenticity, build consumer trust and improve brands’ ability to measure impact. The scale and scope of influencer marketing is growing at pace and holds increasing importance in…

How Brands Can Leverage Sustainability, Social Inclusion to Create ‘Good’ Cities

This week at Sustainable Brands’ flagship event, SB’18 Vancouver, over 2,000 attendees are sharing and exploring the many ways organizations are helping to “redesign the good life.” One aspect of the good life is cross-sector collaboration, such as brand-city-organization partnerships to build resilient communities, technologies and systems that focus on social inclusion. In a plenary…

How much money planting trees can save for your city?

Megacities are on the rise (PDF). There are 47 such areas around the globe, each housing more than 10 million residents. More than half the global population lives in urban areas, comprising about 3 percent of the Earth. The ecological footprint of this growth is vast and far more can be done to improve life for…

Yeni Rapor: Türkiye’nin Tatlı Su Kaynaklarının Neredeyse Tamamı Kirli (#PlastikKirliliğiyleMücadele)

5 Haziran Dünya Çevre Günü vesilesiyle TMMOB Çevre Mühendisleri Odası’nın açıkladığı Türkiye çevre raporu Türkiye’deki çevre kirliliğine ışık tuttu. Rapora göre, Türkiye’de tüketilen plastik ambalajın sadece %21’i toplanabiliyor, tatlı su kaynaklarının %79’u kirlenmiş durumda, denizlerdeki kirlilik artış gösteriyor ve iklim değişikliğine bağlı sebeplerle doğal afetlerin sayısı hızla artıyor. 5 Haziran Dünya Çevre Günü’nde TMMOB Çevre…

Forest certification remains a key weapon in the fight to save forests

The silver bullet has become a metaphor for a simple, almost magical solution to a vexing problem. While silver bullets may be handy to fight werewolves, most real-world challenges are complex, requiring multiple solutions. In those cases, the search for a silver bullet can delay meaningful action. Take deforestation, for example. Every year, the world…

Corporate Sustainability Evolves Into the Net Positive Movement: Q&A with Josh Prigge

Sustaining isn’t enough any more. Businesses that have joined the corporate net positive movement seek to put more back into society and the environment than they take out. “Net positive is what I see as the next step in the evolution of corporate responsibility,” says Josh Prigge, founder and CEO of the sustainability consulting firm…

The business case for empowering women through climate-resilient supply chains

“For the past three years, the World Economic Forum‘s annual Global Risk Report has ranked climate risks high priority in terms of likelihood and impact. For business, this includes both supply chain risks, like water scarcity, and general physical and operational risks that will require resilience and adaptation solutions. In addition to the economic impacts on…

Investors Worth $5 Trillion Call Out Companies Over Human Rights Disclosure

A new report from the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), which is backed by a $5 trillion investor coalition, calls out 28 companies for failing to provide human rights information. The report also identified major corporations working on improving human rights to improve their scores in the benchmark. CHRB is described as the first publicly…

“Sosyal İnovasyon” kavramının geleceği “SIX Wayfinder İstanbul” organizasyonu kapsamında etüt edildi.

Sosyal İnovasyon kavramının gelecek 10 yılı üzerine kapsamlı etütler ve fikir üretme çalışmalarını içeren Wayfinder İstanbul etkinliği, 14-15 Mayıs 2018‘de geniş bir uluslararası katılımla Zorlu PSM‘de tamamlandı. Yoğun çalıştay programı süresince, geçtiğimiz on yılın sosyo-ekonomik değişimine yön veren “Sosyal Sorumluluk” kavramının hem kamusal olarak hem de özel sektörde farklılaşacağı alanlar vurgulandı: “Sosyal İnovasyon” ve “Sosyal…