Reimagining Old IT Equipment Before It Becomes Waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity
Businesses can turn a looming wave of old tech into a powerful driver of impact and climate action by rethinking what happens to their Windows 10 devices. As support for the operating system ends, companies face a choice between scrapping millions of usable machines or putting them back to work for people and communities who […]
Trailblazers and Transformers: How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact
With less than five years to achieve the SDGs, UK businesses face a defining moment. A new report, released by the UN Global Compact Network UK in collaboration with University College London, SDSN UK, Newcastle University, and Euromonitor International, provides the clearest picture yet of how six high-impact sectors are performing against the SDGs, and […]
Beauty with Purpose: How Avon is Empowering Women and Driving Sustainability
Economic Empowerment: Skills, Support and Space to Succeed. With around two million Avon Representatives, many living in underserved or remote communities, our model provides a pathway to income, confidence and agency through flexible work. Training is the engine that helps power this progress. Through our Avon Academy platform, which has recently created over 300 new […]
Heat Resilience: An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Action in the United States
Extreme heat is the deadliest—and most underestimated—climate threat in the United States (US). Each year, extreme heat kills more than 1,300 people in the US, making it the leading climate-related cause of death—surpassing hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes. 2025 was hottest year on record in the US, with the coldest state in the nation, Alaska being […]
Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises
World leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil, last week with an unusually clear message: climate action must be people-centered. Before COP30 even officially opened, 43 countries and the European Union signed the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and People-Centered Climate Action — committing to, among other things, strengthening support for smallholder farmers. It’s an encouraging sign […]
Women Entrepreneurs: The Untapped Engine of Global Economic Growth
On Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we should recognise an often-overlooked truth: women entrepreneurs are not just good for advancing equality – they are essential to the world’s economic future. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that if women participated in economies equally to men, some countries could boost GDP by up to 40 per cent. Yet, […]
Linking Social and Environmental Impact for a Fairer, More Resilient Future
Our recent 5 Bridges to 2045 report provides a framework for how companies can build a fairer, more resilient future. Bridge 2 emphasises the importance of social and environmental teams working together to deliver better business outcomes for people and planet. How can this work in practice? We take a deep dive into how Brazilian […]
Bonsucro and Better Cotton Partner to Help Farmers Tackle Climate Challenges
Climate Resilience in Action: How Bonsucro and Partners Are Pioneering Change The urgency for business-led climate action has never been more pressing, particularly in global agricultural supply chains. As COP30 unfolds, Bonsucro, the international leader in sustainable sugarcane has announced its involvement in a significant expansion of the Climate Resilience Platform (CRP), partnering with the […]
Why Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks Increase
Working collaboratively with farmers, companies, and governments in a defined geographical region is not only an effective way to accelerate sustainable land management and increase famer livelihoods, but they are also a very effective route to share risk, reduce costs, and create lasting change. IDH’s goal is to protect and restore five million hectares of […]
From the Highway to the Blue Zone: Real-World Signals for Resilient Business
I’m Paulo Guerra, Program Director for Public Institutions at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), and I just traveled to Belém for COP30 by motorhome with colleagues from Instituto Bem Ambiental (IBAM). We set out from Belo Horizonte on 1 November with a simple intention that shaped every stop we made across four biomes and nearly three […]
CSR 2.0: Commercial Social Revolution?
As the global economy moved from stakeholder to shareholder capitalism, the social responsibility of companies was necessarily eroded. The controlling mechanism of the market became a share price rather than a link between a firm, their employees, suppliers, consumers, and the communities impacted by their work. Globalisation has also meant that the geographical distance between […]
Inclusive Advertising: The Case for Marcomms for a Better World
Most – perhaps all – of the world’s challenges are founded in large part on problematic attitudes and beliefs. Among these challenges, discrimination based on race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation and more is arguably the most pernicious. It exacts huge economic costs and, more fundamentally, ruins and even ends lives. It robs us all […]