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Your CSR strategy needs to be goal driven, achievable, and authentic
Tabitha Upshaw, Harvard Business Review, 17 September 2021We are in the era of impact investing and big pledges as companies step up to tackle the environmental and social issues of our time. General Motors has vowed to be carbon neutral by 2040, Apple is investing $100 million in its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, and Target plans for 100 per cent of its owned-brand products to be designed for...
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Social responsibility of business: the limit on a good corporation’s good intentions
Bill Conerly, Forbes, 14 August 2021When assessing what businesses can do to be socially responsible, their actions are ultimately minimal. This is true even if corporate leadership is committed to a mission of improving the world. Two constraints limit potential results: return on capital and corporate capabilities. As such, the real social value of business remains in providing...
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Target unveils sustainability goals, pledging to keep its products out of landfills and to create net-zero emissions by 2040
Nadine El-Bawab, CNBC, 22 June 2021Target plans to make 100 per cent of its private label products environmentally sustainable by designing items that are more durable, and eliminate waste and encourage reuse by 2040. The retailer also plans to have 100% of the plastic packaging for its brands recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025. Target also says it is responding to...
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Google, Facebook, Amazon, and more urge SEC to mandate regular climate reports
Lauren Feiner, CNBC, 14 June 2021In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seven US big tech companies have urged it to regularly disclose climate change-related matters to their shareholders. The group, including Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel, and Salesforce, also said that collectively 21 gigawatts of clean energy was purchased with the...
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Single, global sustainability standard for companies backed by G7
Huw Jones, Reuters, 08 June 2021Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will head an advisory group on establishing a global board for sustainability-related company disclosures. The new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), due to be unveiled ahead of this November’s COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, will...
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UK banks tested on climate crisis risks
BBC, 08 June 2021The Bank of England has announced it will examine the risks rising temperatures and sea levels could pose for the UK's big banks and insurers. It will put 19 firms through stress tests involving three climate scenarios projected over the next 30 years. The scenarios will be based on average temperature increases and changes in weather patterns....
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A tiny, climate-conscious player is creating a giant headache for ExxonMobil
Lorraine Woellert, Politico, 25 May 2021ExxonMobil is being challenged on climate by an upstart investment group. The investor, Engine No. 1, has a US$50 million stake in Exxon Mobil, making it a niche player in the US$253 billion company. Yet, it has rallied enough institutional support to do what decades of environmental and shareholder activism never could: put ExxonMobil...
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NAB’s Port of Newcastle funding tied to green sustainability goals
Ben Millington, ABC News, 04 May 2021National Australia Bank (NAB) has agreed to help finance the world's largest coal export terminal and has linked loans to a new set of social and environmental goals. NAB has stepped in to pull together "sustainability linked" loans to the value of $565 million, with the bank's group executive David Gall saying, this sort of "behaviour-based...
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Aldi promises zero waste to landfill in Australia by 2025
Sarah Sharples, news.com.au, 03 May 2021Aldi has announced a new sustainability plan to send zero waste to landfill by 2025. The discount supermarket will investigate closing the loop, such as sending broken pallets to be chipped into garden mulch and then sold as a ‘Special Buy.’ But first, Aldi will focus on food waste, with a goal to send zero food waste to landfill by 2023. Under...
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Risky business: 54% of Australian companies plan to slow ‘green’ initiatives due to COVID
Sukhbir Sandhu, The Conversation, 29 April 2021More than half of Australian companies plan to scale back environmental initiatives to weather the financial harm caused by the COVID pandemic, according to new research from Deloitte. However, Sukhbir Sandhy, Associate Professor in Sustainability and Ethics at the University of South Australia, argues “rather than abandoning environmental...
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