The Holy Grail of Integrated Reporting

15 Sep 2009 – Article

A conversation between SustainAbility co-founder John Elkington and Jean-Philippe Renaut, leader SustainAbility’s Engaging Stakeholders Program, on the current state and evolution of 'integrated reporting'.

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Big Capitalism’s Growing Appetite for Social Enterprise (Nikkei Ecology)

A look at Coca-Cola's new stakes in Innocent Drinks

20 Jun 2009 – Article

Coca-Cola’s embrace of Innocent will be an important test case of the ability of such corporate giants to dance with infinitely smaller partners without trampling them underfoot.

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It’s Time to Google the Future of the Car Industry (Nikkei Ecology)

12 Mar 2009 – Article

Sadly, over time, key parts of the European and American car industries have often displayed thinking and behaviours that speak of denial of any need to adapt and evolve.

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2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

15 Jan 2009 – Article

2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For (Nikkei Ecology)

Entrepreneurship and strategic alliances in the electrification of transport

11 Nov 2008 – Article

If the business of business is business, it is also to build future markets. One opportunity space attracting growing interest focuses on low-carbon cars.

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To Lead Globally, Lead in China (Nikkei Ecology)

Different people had many different reasons for watching the Olympics. In our case it was only in part to do with the sport.

13 Sep 2008 – Article

While the world's largest sports goods companies are busy counting the final tally of medals won by 'their' sportspeople, media commentators have noted how marketing itself has now “become an Olympic sport.”

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EDF: Is Nuclear Really an Economic Option? (Nikkei Ecology)

10 Jun 2008 – Article

Electricité de France (EDF), the French leader in nuclear electricity generation, has announced a “global nuclear renaissance”.

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People's Car, Eco-Nightmare? (Nikkei Ecology)

06 Feb 2008 – Article

Known as the “People’s Car”, it is billed as the world’s cheapest car, capitalizing on India’s strong engineering capacity to develop a vehicle which is profitable at a price tag of just 100,000 rupees, or $2,500.

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2007: Year of the Supply Chain (Nikkei Ecology)

Rapid globalization is best illustrated by the ever expanding tentacles of multinational supply chains

11 Dec 2007 – Article

In a constant quest to trim production costs, manufacturing companies are aggressively sub-contracting and extending their supply chains. Coastal towns in China are by no means the final frontier.

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L’Essor des Achats Responsables (Les Echos)

11 Dec 2007 – Article

Leveraging the latest technologies to track and monitor global supply chains can create new opportunities, and mitigate some of the dire ethical and environmental side-effects.

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Greenwashing 2.0 (Nikkei Ecology)

Self-deceiving “green wash” undermines firms’ environmentally-friendly efforts

08 Nov 2007 – Article

The old-style abuses of greenwashing are rarely seen these days, but that does not mean that greenwashing has disappeared. Instead, it has evolved on two fundamental levels.

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Successful Stakeholder Engagement

22 Oct 2007 – Report

Stakeholder engagement comes in many forms, and businesses engage their stakeholders for myriad reasons.

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Suncor: The Dinosaur That Wants to Be a Mammal (Nikkei Ecology)

Suncor Energy, which pioneered development of the oil sands, greatly reduces environmental impact through its new technology

07 Oct 2007 – Article

In its latest sustainability report, Suncor invites stakeholders to take a closer look at its operations and performance. We should accept the invitation.

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Citigroup Versus Bank of America: US Banks Compete to Go Green (Nikkei Ecology)

Citigroup invests 50 billion dollars in environmental projects including natural energy

07 Aug 2007 – Article

As Citgroup and Bank of America compete with multi-billion-dollar environmental investment initiatives, we ask, how can the outside world check up on the sort of claims such companies are now making? How can we hold them accountable?

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General Electric Reimagines Its Future (Nikkei Ecology)

General Electric supports environmental efforts with its leading-edge technology under its “ecomagination” initiative

09 Jun 2007 – Article

How GE's ecomagination initiative signals the growing shift from corporate citizenship strategies to innovation-led entrepreneurial strategies in some of the world’s most successful companies.

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