Introduction to the Anthropocene In a wonderful new book, professors Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin at London University College, make a convincing case that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene (combining the Greek words for ‘human’ and ‘recent’). Humans have literally become a force of nature. Meaning that human activity changes the Earth from one …
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There’s a lot of good knowledge packed into the SDG Academy’s Climate Change course. You learn about the science behind climate change, what the Paris Agreement entails, and which multi-stakeholder initiatives try to combat climate change. The one thing that was maybe lacking was a chapter on how climate change poses threats to individual businesses; …
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As a follow-up on last month’s post on business risk stemming from climate change, this post shows you how to incorporate thinking on climate change in your business processes and decisions. The list of ideas is by no means intended to be exhaustive, but it contains a number of ideas I stumbled on …
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Credit: Takver via Flickr Introduction: what The Economist has to say about climate change and business More than a year ago, we started off a series of blog posts on mandatory non-financial disclosures with a post on climate change. At that point, four risk groups of climate change were identified and suggestions were made on …
Could You Be Wrong in Thinking Climate Change Does Not Affect Your Business? Read More »
As your organization is getting ready for the implementation of EU guideline 2014/95/EU on the disclosure of non-financial information, I hand you a series of blog posts on non-financial topics that business managers might be less familiar with. My aim for this series of posts is twofold. First, to give you insight into concepts that …
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In the Guardian, the case is made that current reporting practices on sustainability are a great waste of time. According to researchers, nobody actually reads sustainability reports. One of the main reasons being, that reports are impenetrable: they’re just too thick to get through. The authors identified a number of issues with current sustainability reporting …
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In a recent article in the Economist (Analyse This), shareholder value is still seen as ‘the governing principle of firms’. Despite increasing calls to start running firms for the sake of stakeholders, the influential newspaper sticks to running the firm for shareholders and thus to an idea that was described by Milton Friedman in his …
