Posts Tagged: business sustainability

Indonesia has the second largest natural tropical forests on the planet and these have endured continual threats from illegal logging and unsustainable practices for decades.  WWF and many other local and international groups are working to turn these problems around to ensure ‘High Conservation Value Forests’ are left standing. It would be great to think [...]

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

‘Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century’.  PwC. ‘The world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss’.  Convention on Biological Diversity. Optimisation is clearly failing.  We need to [...]

Think new “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones” – these words, from composer John Cage, ring especially true to me when considering the gulf between businesses that are glued to outmoded approaches, and others that are breaking in new, innovative models. It’s a topic WWF [...]

Many of us often complain about the slow pace of change – the slow trudge towards a green economy – but there are reasons to be excited. So many business plans are getting a real make-over right now. Just over the last few weeks, there have been some impressively well organised deep dives with companies [...]

For some time, WWF has been concerned that the promised Green Investment Bank (GIB) is not really a bank at all, but merely a fund. The problem is its lack of borrowing powers, which the treasury department has tied to all sorts of conditions in the wider economy that mean indefinite delays for the bank. [...]

With its medal-winning hand-held camera work, Oana and I have created this whistle-stop, sustainability-spotting guide to a few of the green features at the London 2012 Olympic park and village. If you have your own images and videos of anything that impressed you – or disappointed you – at the ‘greenest Games ever’, do tell [...]

Before the Games in June, Katherine Symonds from Coca-Cola told us about what they would be doing to keep a lid on their Olympic waste and drive a legacy of recycling for London. Now, with the Olympics behind us and the Paralympics underway, Katherine has found time to tell us more about their sustainability initiatives [...]

The WWF team working on the Sky Rainforest Rescue partnership recently took a day out to see how our colleagues at Sky are addressing their environmental impact at their headquarters in London. The vast complex which makes up the nerve centre of Sky’s operation has been dubbed ‘Skyberia’ by some who have got lost among [...]

Fiona Pelham, chair of the ISO20121 committee, considers the long-term sustainability legacy of the London 2012 Games. “So what will be the main legacies of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games? This question has been asked constantly since 2005, and now, as the time for ‘legacy’ gets closer, the interest in it is growing. [...]