It’s ten years since a seminal speech triggered a rush into green finance. What happened to those early hopes?
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In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
Many firms now report how they are doing along economic, environmental and social lines in what is called a sustainability report. But how effective are they, really?
The world’s ecosystems need to be restored – and fast. Large corporations are well-placed to do so.
We cannot leave reporting to the accounting profession and their assumptions about who and what is important. Recent proposals by the Canadian accounting profession should concern us all.
Publicly, companies have been paying more attention to social and environmental issues, but their priority remains profit. Climate change is forcing an evolution, a business strategy expert writes.
Australia has yet to properly acknowledge that the Sustainable Development Goals aren’t just an issue for other countries. The problems that demand our attention are much closer to home.
For years Swedish companies have been regarded as among the best in sustainability reporting.
Research shows that South African companies are neglecting the more challenging aspects of sustainability reporting.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
Australia’s biggest banks seem more concerned with disclosing how much paper they recycle than their lending exposure to coal mines.
Australia’s policies to cut greenhouse emissions have been shrouded in uncertainty over the past few months. The contentious Renewable Energy Target review and the swapping of the carbon price for Direct…
Once on the fringe of institutional investors’ considerations, reporting on environmental, social and governance related issues is now common practice among major listed companies. But the quality and…
Several prominent Australian companies could be inflating their adherence to corporate social responsibility guidelines, often filing reports with “partial and missing information”, according to a new…
The triple bottom line is a term coined in the late 1990s by the influential business thinker and consultant, John Elkington. It captures a very neat idea, namely that a modern organisation has three broad…
This week has seen the launch of two significant reports, the International IR Framework and KPMG’s Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2013. The Framework marks a paradigm shift in “corporate…
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