Sustainability
Rethinking Sustainability: Brand Risks And Opportunities
This report helps executives responsible for sustainability communications, and their colleagues across communications, marketing and sustainability teams to understand the different strategic approaches, the risks and opportunities, and the business case for enhancing communications to support the corporate brand. View Full Details »
Published: 10 April 2013
BT Bets On Sustainability To Deliver Business Benefits
This case study is one in a series of Verdantix reports that analyses corporate sustainability strategies. This report provides individuals in roles such as Chief Sustainability Officer or VP of Sustainability with an independent analysis of BT’s sustainability strategy. Headquartered in London, BT is a £19.3 billion ($30.9 billion) communications and networked IT services firm operating across 170 countries. View Full Details »
Published: 17 December 2012
Innovative Ways To Engage Employees On Sustainability (Webinar)
The success of many corporate sustainability plans relies on changing the behaviours of the company staff. Even more ambitious engagement plans support employees changing behaviours in their private lives and at the family level too. While this subject has gained considerable momentum over recent years, with companies such as Microsoft all eager to disclose their strategies, achieving real, sustained change is a considerable challenge for CSOs. View Full Details »
Published: 05 October 2012
Engaging Employees On Sustainability: 25 Innovative Approaches
The role of employee engagement in corporate sustainability strategies is essential. From minimizing waste to stimulating innovation, executives rely on a wide array of approaches to change behaviour in the pursuit of greater sustainability. But lasting behaviour change is difficult to achieve. This report shows Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO), heads of human resources and CSR Directors, 25 approaches used to engage staff on sustainability. View Full Details »
Published: 03 October 2012
Germany Sustainable Business Spending 2011-2016
Verdantix Critical Moments® is a globally scalable model that sizes and forecasts the direction of sustainable business spending. This report, focused on the German market, provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate roles with analysis of sustainable business budgets, market size and forecast data. View Full Details »
Published: 25 July 2012
Sustainability Provides Healthy Results For Novo Nordisk
This case study is one in a series of Verdantix reports that analyses corporate sustainability strategies. This report provides individuals in roles such as CSOs and VP of Environment with an independent analysis of global healthcare firm, Novo Nordisk’s sustainability strategy, which is based on a Triple Bottom Line approach. Novo Nordisk has produced an annual report on its environmental performance since 1994, and became early adopters of integrated reporting in 2004. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
CloudApps Gamifies Sustainability To Catch Employee Interest
Firms increasingly recognize both the importance and the challenge of changing their employees’ behaviour to achieve their corporate sustainability targets. This report helps Chief Sustainability Officers, heads of Human Resources and CSR directors understand a new software tool launched by sustainable business software firm CloudApps to support employee engagement on corporate sustainability. View Full Details »
Published: 07 June 2012
WSP’s Personal Carbon Plans Generate Employee Engagement
This report helps Chief Sustainability Officers, heads of Human Resources and CSR directors understand PACT from WSP Environment & Energy, a new tool designed to support employee engagement strategies on sustainability. Firms often struggle to engage with their employees on sustainability because of employees’ varied attitudes when faced with change, particularly relating to sustainability, and the need for a credible sustainable business strategy to support the programme. View Full Details »
Published: 06 December 2011
Who Should Be The Chief Sustainability Officer? (Webinar)
In this Verdantix Webinar I will present the results of our analysis of the role, responsibilities and requirements of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO). This is a new role, designed to address the management deficit that results from middle managers in energy, environment and sustainability roles who do not have the budget and authority to implement transformation programmes. View Full Details »
Published: 21 April 2010