For small to privately owned businesses (POBs) at the start of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) journey, meeting net zero goals may feel like a regulatory obligation rather than a value creator. Yet by changing the narrative, POBs can...

Businesses and institutions are increasingly held accountable for environmental, social and governance (ESG) actions. Customers, suppliers, shareholders, investors, employees and regulators not only want to know your ESG strategy, but they also want to see that strategy in place and...

To approach human rights impacts with any significance, companies need a deeper understanding of their value chain structure. Historically companies have largely focused on impacts that occur in the upstream supply chain. Yet we are now seeing new downstream supply...

As organisations achieve a level of maturity in dealing with sustainability requirements, companies are moving from wanting to do business more responsibly to wanting to measure what impact doing business more responsibly is having. We know that data is key...

A responsible supply chain is where a business sources and processes products or provides services in an ethical, sustainable and socially conscious way. Traditionally, organisations have focused on their supply chain from an upstream perspective when looking to create a...

Companies have always collected data for sales, marketing, compliance or financial reporting. Even sustainability data is not entirely new for companies that comply with ISO standards, are involved in the circular economy, use an environmental management system (EMS) or started...

The arrival of new and emerging technology tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) gives organisations the power to grab and analyse vast amounts of data more quickly and efficiently. While this provides the temptation to collect...