Snapshot: Activism, Transition Metals & The Mining Sector April 11, 2024 Activist campaigning on transition metals Activist campaigning against the mining sector and on transition metals specifically is rising, driving increased reputational and regulatory risk for companies throughout the value chain. Regulatory moves such as CSDDD create heightened future risk. Copper has seen significant levels of campaigning on social and environmental impacts for over a decade, with a recent [...]
How To Gain Sustainability Certification On Booking.com April 9, 2024 Showcasing green initiatives for sustainable travel and lodging holds significant importance in today’s travel landscape. According to Booking.com’s 2023 Sustainable Travel Report 76% of travellers express a desire for sustainable holiday travel, highlighting the growing interest in eco-conscious choices. Booking.com’s third-party certification represents the highest standard in terms of recognising an accommodation’s efforts towards operating [...]
Social impact 101 With Clearwater International: Supporting Disadvantaged Young People With Financial Education March 27, 2024 Welcome to the Social Impact 101 series by EVERFI from Blackbaud, where businesses and their leaders across the UK – and overseas – talk about how their social impact programmes are supporting overall business objectives and making a positive difference to the lives of young people all over the UK, and beyond… Each edition of [...]
Why Financial Institutions Cannot Ignore the CSDDD March 25, 2024 Activists seek to change corporate behaviour by pressing for regulation. That regulation is then used as a standard to scrutinise companies. Upon finding the regulation insufficient, they push for its scope to be widened and strengthened, thus bringing more players into the ambit of the binding regulation. The EU Corporate Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive [...]
FuturePlus Helps Nobu London Portman Square to Achieve Travel Sustainable Level 3 Rating on Booking.com March 21, 2024 FuturePlus works with hotels around the globe to help them track, measure and continuously improve their sustainability across five themes: Climate, Environment, Social, Economic, and Diversity and Inclusion Nobu Hotel London Portman Square, part of the renowned Nobu Hotels luxury hotel group, has appointed sustainability management and ESG reporting platform FuturePlus to help it track, [...]
Israel-Palestine Activism: A Turning Point for Financial Institutions? March 13, 2024 Since October 2023, campaigning on the Palestinian cause has skyrocketed. SIGWATCH data shows that the second most targeted industry, after the arms manufacturers themselves, was finance. Perhaps you’ve noticed some of the UK Barclays branches looking a bit worse for wear recently? If so, that’s most likely the handiwork of activist groups such as War [...]
Why We Should Live Near Landfills March 11, 2024 Imagine you’re transported back to a time some several hundred years ago, tasked with explaining to the people of that time the concept of landfills. My guess is you would have a pretty hard time. Not so much because landfills are a difficult concept to understand, but because waste simply had not been invented yet. [...]
Why are Extinction Rebellion Talking About Palestine? March 4, 2024 Workers in the City of London will, by this point, be quite familiar with the sight of climate activists causing a ruckus. As key hub for the finance industry, the square mile has been the site of many direct-action protests over the past few years, including office occupations, event disruptions, banner drops, and unwanted building [...]
Most Workplace Leaders Are Missing A Key Piece Of The Puzzle In Driving Employee Engagement: Building Data March 4, 2024 Have you ever needed a room for a large team meeting only to find someone had already reserved it for a quick huddle? How about sitting in a freezing cold office, shivering throughout the day because the air conditioning is blasting in the middle of winter? What about trying to locate one of the few [...]
NGO Scrutiny in Countries with Low Civil Society Freedom February 22, 2024 No one should be surprised that NGOs have difficulty operating in states with limited civic freedom. Indeed, even in mildly authoritarian countries, independent NGOs may be so tightly regulated or hassled by arbitrary sanctions that it is difficult for them to be effective. Meanwhile, in some of the world’s ‘freest’ countries such as Norway and Sweden (as defined [...]
