INSIGHTS
Fronesys sustainability content schedule 2011-12
Here's a quick look at some of the content we at Fronesys are working on, and when you can expect to see it: Materiality: what counts when it comes to the business impacts of non-financial metrics: October 2011 For most businesses, there is a...
Fronesys – all of three months young! Check the highlights.
Greetings from London. It was just three months ago that we set up Fronesys, a brand new sustainability advisory service, featuring Paul Druckman, Chris Tuppen and Jyoti Banerjee. And you might be wondering what we have been up to. Well, glad...
Fronesys partners with Trucost to integrate sustainability metrics into business strategy
Fronesys, the advisory company focused on embedding sustainability metrics into strategic decision-making, today announced its partnership with Trucost, the company with the world’s largest data set on corporate environmental impacts. As a result of the...
Why companies should measure their social impact: Alison Braybrooks in the Guardian
Companies don't report their negative social impacts, according to research by the GRI. Often, they also often don't link their impact on society to wider global goals or recognised concepts like human rights, and don't set and track progress against...
HFS Research invites Fronesys partner Jyoti Banerjee to be Research Fellow on sustainability
Boston-based HfS Research (www.hfsresearch.com), a leading analyst company working in the business process and IT outsourcing space, has invited Jyoti Banerjee, partner at Fronesys, to be its Research Fellow in the area of sustainability....
Stern thinks more needs to be done and faster than envisaged in Stern Review
Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review, says his views on climate change have intensified over the five years since the publication of his impactful study. In an interview with Technology Review, Stern lays out some key thoughts that every...
Independent directors: really, what can we expect?
The News Corp disaster has many victims already (and the body count is only mounting) but so far none of them are non-executive directors. Lucy Marcus raises a really important issue about non-execs in a blog on Harvard Business Review's website: "News...
Six reasons why sustainability matters to business
If a CEO’s pronouncements were all the evidence we needed that a business was doing something, then sustainability would be top of the strategy charts. Over half of the McKinsey Global Survey 2010 participants consider sustainability – the management of...
Integrated Reporting: is this the future of corporate reporting? A report from the DVFA convention in Frankfurt.
Today's corporate reporting model looks broken. It is dominated by a compliance mindset, particularly in America, with an inordinate focus on technical things, not strategy. It is so separated from internal reporting that boards are unable to engage with...
2010 carbon emissions up 5% from 2008 high – no policy brakes in sight
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published its latest global greenhouse gas emission data, and it makes uncomfortably warm reading. While the recession caused a minor blip in 2009, Planet Earth is now well back on the inexorable path of...