Patagonia to focus on selling exclusively to “mission-driven companies”

Patagonia to focus on selling exclusively to “mission-driven companies”     Outdoor clothing brand, Patagonia, has made the decision to supply corporate clothing only to “mission-driven companies that prioritise the planet”. Its corporate sales programme, popular with all types of […]

Google undermines its mission by blocking ads for anti-censorship in China

Google undermines its mission by blocking ads for anti-censorship in China This month it was reported that Google stopped distributing advertisements in China for two websites that review anti-censorship software. Both vpnMentor and Top10VPN, legally registered Chinese companies […]

The Battle to Do Good: Inside McDonald’s Sustainability Journey – Book Review

Mike Tuffrey, Co-founder of Corporate Citizenship, reviews a personal account of the inner workings of corporate sustainability at one of the world’s most recognisable brands. A “sustainability page-turner” is not a description one often finds associated with books […]

Integrated reporting – a shift in thinking takes time

The State of Sustainability and Integrated Reporting 2018 research authored by the US-based Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), has recently shown that only 14 S&P 500 companies issue what Si2 considers to be fully integrated reports. This is despite […]

Reporting standards – it’s a numbers game

The Corporate Reporting Dialogue launched a six-week global consultation process on Wednesday 20 March 2019, on how to improve alignment between the methodologies of reporting standards. The initiative counts CDP, CDSB, GRI and SASB – among others – […]

Reporting on impact is still not the norm

The Alliance for Corporate Transparency project analysis of companies’ reporting published a report in February 2019, following three years of research. The main finding was that corporate sustainability reporting still has a long way to go to meet […]

ecommerce pollution solutions: from truck platooning to smart lockers

By 2021, estimates indicate that e-commerce will make up 18 percent of total sales in the U.S., 20 percent of sales in the UK, and 30 percent of sales in China. This growth doesn’t show any sign of […]

How disclosure is pushing positive change down the supply chain

There has been step-change action on environmental impacts within the supply chain in the last decade as demonstrated by the recently published CDP report. Headlines include: (1) more than 110 of the world’s largest companies are now requesting […]

Full transportation history as simple as QR codes and smartphones

January 2019 saw the launch of a new tracking platform, developed by WWF and BCG Digital Ventures, called OpenSC. It uses product QR (Quick Response) codes that consumers can scan with a smartphone to automatically display information revealing […]

Medtech – the debate we’re not yet having