'Everything in moderation, son': CEO Philip Clarke on sustainability at Tesco | Global Development Professionals Network. #SustyBiz: Can Corporate Sustainability & Economic Growth Coexist? | join the conversation #SustyBiz: Can Corporate Sustainability & Economic Growth Coexist? In a chat with SAP's @PeterGGraf, BSR's @AronCramer, CDP's @TopNigel & @TriplePundit, we discuss the intricacies of pursuing sustainability alongside business growth and social prosperity.
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" The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by CSRwire contributors do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of CSRwire. Sustainability and Employee Engagement: Don't Forget the Fun. By Ben Egan Sustainability is a concept that is supported by 97 percent of top executives, according to a U.N. /Accenture CEO study. CEOs like the cost savings that result from sustainability programs because they are immediately measurable.
However, there are bottom line benefits that which are more subtle but no less profound. Chief among these is the impact on employee engagement. In his book “Talent, Transformation and the Triple Bottom Line,” Andrew Savitz lays out how companies with sustainability engagement programs see an increase in employee engagement. If this is the case, where are all the sustainability programs? The truth is that it can be difficult to get employees to engage with them. Gamify your program It’s become apparent that most of us will adapt our behavior in response to non-financial rewards. Most of us are familiar with the way that game apps like Angry Birds or Flappy Birds award stars or medals depending on how well players complete levels. Tailoring the program. New Metrics '14, 09.24.14 – Events on CSRwire.com. "Real" Sustainability: The New Disruptors.
By scaling up social enterprise solutions, corporations can promote real sustainability and CSR. By David Wilcox The CSRwire community recently participated in a Twitter chat in response to this query: “What will disrupt your year?” Leading experts gathered to discuss CSR and sustainability trends in 2014. Over an hour’s time, a range of assumptions and common frames emerged. (A full account of the conversation can be read here.) Industry Ripe for Disruption In their breakthrough publication, Competing for the Future, Hamel and Prahalad made the trenchant observation that when leaders of an industry come to share a common set of rules and frames about how things must operate, that industry is ripe for disruption. In light of that insight, perhaps the more critical question to be asked is this: Does the world of corporate sustainability/social responsibility share common rules and frames that make it ripe for disruption?
Framework One: Risk Taking in Sustainability Risk Avoidance Frame. How to tell sustainability stories on social media | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional. Just 35 of 113 companies studied used their social media channels to tell their sustainability or CSR stories. Photograph: Rob Whitworth/Alamy Do you ever get the feeling you're having the same sustainability conversation over and over again with the same group of people?
It's a sentiment I've heard a lot recently from sustainability professionals – the nagging feeling that it's time to take sustainability out to the masses if they are going to accomplish the goals they've become so good at talking to each other about. This year's Social Media Sustainability Index certainly backs up that sentiment. In looking back at the year 2013 we analysed how 475 companies from all over the world communicate sustainability. What we found was an explosion in the number of companies talking about sustainability or corporate social responsibility. The missed possibility to influence sustainable living becomes even greater when you consider the potential community reach of these brands. How business has stepped up to the opportunity of sustainability | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional.
I set up Global Action Plan in the UK 20 years ago. It's a behavioural change charity which works with leading businesses on sustainability. This year I am stepping down from this role to set up a new sustainability charity. Back in 1993, Global Action Plan's first project was called EcoTeams. It can best be described as a mixture between a green Weight Watchers and Blue Peter. Groups of households were brought together and followed a six month guide to saving money and cutting environmental impact. EcoTeams had been highly successful in the Netherlands where 10,000 households participated with support from the Dutch Government.
What I discovered was that 20 years ago the concept of encouraging sustainability with households was completely off the corporate agenda. In 1993 the leaders in sustainability were local authorities, many of them eager to implement the ambitions of Local Agenda 21 set out at the first Rio Earth Summit. Twenty years later the situation has reversed. Conquering Uncharted Territory in the ROI of Sustainability. Sustainability and Complexity: Are We Doomed to Repeat History? The more complex a society, the more difficult it is to solve problems and avoid catastrophe. Sustainability advocates need to take a fresh look at the challenges if they are to plan effectively for real-world outcomes. By William Ophuls Sustainability as usually understood is an oxymoron. Using the found wealth of the New World and the geological legacy of fossil hydrocarbons, we humans have created an anti-ecological Titanic.
Every effort to “green” this monstrous vessel—making the deck chairs recyclable, feeding the boilers with biofuels, installing hybrid winches and windlasses, and the like—is doomed to fail in the long run, because what is required is a radical change in our thinking and way of life. There are many obstacles to such a transformation, but one in particular is under-appreciated: the challenge of complexity.
Civilization’s Vicious Circle Civilizations are trapped in a vicious circle. For failure. Complexity Leads to Unpredictability and Crisis point. About the Author: Sustainability Marketing: The Power of True Stories, 11.20.13 – Events on CSRwire.com. Sustainability Marketing: The Power of True Stories Organizer: Yale Center for Customer Insights Date: 11.20.13, 08:30AM – 11.20.13, 07:00PM ET Location:Yale Club NYC (50 Vanderbilt Ave) Sponsor:Interbrand, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Yale Center for Customer Insights Website: som.yale.edu/sustainability-marketing-power-tru...
The Yale Center for Customer Insights, The Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Interbrand are partnering to bring you an exclusive conference on sustainability and the power of true stories. Companies can no longer pay mere lip service to sustainability in a leveled, democratic marketplace where consumers demand transparency as the return on their emotional and economic investment in a brand. At the Sustainability Marketing: The Power of True Stories conference, we’ll explore new ways of thinking about sustainability, authenticity and storytelling with talks from leading academics and practitioners across a range of fields.
How IBM, SAP, PepsiCo and MTV link sustainability to career development. Which approach do you think is more effective for learning a language quickly: hours of classroom grammar drills or a concentrated period of immersion in the country where it's the native lexicon? With all due respect to academics, most of us would guess the real-world experience, and increasingly, the same can be said about employee engagement initiatives. No matter their original philanthropic or sustainability purpose, pro bono work experiences at home and abroad or programs such as social sabbaticals that combine business experts with non-profits in emerging markets are becoming valuable tools for professional development and workforce retention. TD Bank's quest to embed environmental awareness across its entire U.S. banking organization is one vivid example, and this theme was sounded loudly and often by a wide array of corporate sustainability and human resources executives speaking during the Commit!
Forum conference this week in New York. 1. Vet participants closely. 2. 3. 4. Compliance Map. Wednesday, 26th February at 9.30am PDT On Tuesday, March 18th from 1:00pm to 2:00pm PDT, The Compliance Map is hosting a free webinar covering a demo of their enterprise software solution for the management of environmental compliance regulations, directives and product stewardship. The following topics will be demonstrated along with how Compliance Map manages regulatory obligations arising from environmental compliance directives: To register for the webinar, please click here Monday, 2nd September at 1.10pm PDT Compliance Map, a regulatory compliance knowledgebase and toolset has officially launched offering a tailored view of global directives and regulations impacting organisations and industry. The tiered service provides leverage for managers and engineers to tackle regulations ranging from environmental compliance (Conflict Minerals, RoHS, REACH) to Safety, Energy and Wireless standards & Certifications.
Compliance Map is offered in 3 editions. About The Compliance Map. UN Global Compact Releases Sustainability Research Findings. The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) recently released its 2013 Global Corporate Sustainability Report on the state of corporate sustainability. The UN Compact’s pool of respondents have committed to pursuing the UN’s defined goals associated with Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti-corruption. The study, using a Six Sigma-like continuous process improvement model, measures where companies are in their sustainability programs along the wheel of: commit, assess, define, implement, measure and communicate.
UNGC partnered with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study. There were a total of 1712 responses to the survey, of which 753 (44 percent) were classified as SMEs, those firms with 249 employees or less. The 2013 report identifies four key findings: 1. 2. 3. 4. The UN Global Compact has been conducting this study annually since 2007 and is seeing positive change across each of its core measures. Scroll down to see comments. Future Maker: Maria Emilia Correa, From Critiquing Business to Taking Responsibility. "Every business decision also has social and ecological consequences. Business doesn’t operate in a vacuum. " By Joanna and Wolfgang Hafenmeyer This second profile in our CSRwire series based on the book, Future Makers, is about Maria Emilia Correa – VP of Grupo Nueva. The sociologist, nature lover, environmental activist and business executive from Chile went from environmental activist outsider to ESG promoter insider.
Grupo Nueva In the beautiful headquarters of Grupo Nueva in Santiago de Chile, we were received by Maria Emilia Correa, vice president and head of social and ecological responsibility. Grupo Nueva is a holding group for businesses operating in Latin America. For years in sustainable economic development in Latin America. He convinced Maria Emilia that big business is the right place to work for improving the world. Sociology and Activism Maria Emilia completed a law degree at the end of the 1970s at the University of Bogotá. Maria Emilia as Business Critic About the Authors: The Dialogic Change Model - StakeholderDialogues.net. The Dialogic Change Model introduced here allows for result-oriented, structured planning and implementation of a Stakeholder Dialogue. It is divided into four phases: This division has proven helpful in taking all demands and requirements of the different phases of a dialogue process into account and preparing them adequately.
The guiding principles of the model are based on the Dialogic Practices of voice, listen, respect and suspend. By using structured dialogue to create a space for collective intelligence, the model facilitates a process design that can be owned by all stakeholders. While supporting the 4C project, a cross-sector partnership between coffee traders, producer organizations and international civil society organizations the founder and Executive Director Petra Künkel of the Collective Leadership Institute, identified the factors that make a cooperation project successful. Women and Sustainability in Politics: Embrace Crisis and Reframe Shame. Look for relationships among a system’s parts as opposed to the parts themselves.
[Image credit: Rosscophoto, Flickr] By Laura Tu The Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future recently hosted a powerful discussion on women and sustainability in politics. Moderated by Darcy Winslow, Managing Partner at Academy for Systemic Change, the panel included Cylvia Hayes, Oregon’s First Lady and Kendall Clawson, Oregon’s Director of Executive Appointments. Crises disrupt the status quo. We are used to examining isolated issues, but, as Hayes emphasized, systemic thinkers understand that everything is connected. What to expect when transforming crisis into opportunity: Crisis disrupts the norm. Hayes ended with a cautionary tale. . #2 Reframe shame and inspire action In Oregon’s four-county region where Director of Executive Appointments Kendall Clawson resides, 40 percent of kids live in low-income families. Prosperity begins with an education. What would you do without shame as a barrier? Corporate Reporting| News | Novo Valor | Report or Explain Initiative gains another 90 companies.
Companies listed on BM&FBOVESPA and which publish a sustainability report or similar document, or explain why not, rose from 203 to 293 between May 2012 and June 2013. This is an increase from 45.31% to 66.29% of companies that are now in the Report or Explain voluntary initiative that the Exchange launched with the market in December 2011. The companies that filled out the information in their Reference Form by June this year are included in the updated data bank.
The number of companies that effectively published social, environmental and corporate governance information rose by 61, from 96 to 157, evidencing publicly-traded companies’ growing commitment to and appreciation of the sustainability agenda. To grant this Brazilian corporate tendency greater visibility, for the first time BM&FBOVESPA will publish segmented Report or Explain results for local and global investors.
The first results of Report or Explain were announced at Rio+20, in 2012. New Horizons in Measuring the ROI of Sustainability (Panel) Search the Sustainable Brands Library September 27, 2012 Cracking the code on the "ROI of sustainability," or even deciphering the very meaning of that phrase in various contexts, continues to be a challenge for many corporate leaders, investors and other stakeholders. Facing heightened shareholder concerns, whether due to a global economic crisis or general skepticism, how does one best demonstrate the value of investments in sustainability?
What can a company hope for, as it transitions from measuring the ROI of individual projects (ex: energy efficiency) to capturing the return on a broader sustainability agenda? This panel discusses breakthrough research and modelling approaches that are proving useful in quantifying the impact of a range of sustainability efforts, including transparent disclosure, on the bottom line, stock prices, brand value, sales, risk reduction and employee value. Access the audio of this presentation here. Related Content News & Views Library.
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