Green Strategy Comment & Analysis

Comment

Comment from Alan Knight: Boardrooms’ role in the sustainability challenge

Alan Knight

Board members have a crucial part to play in identifying the ‘unique contribution’ their business can make, through more sustainable goods and services, to meet the challenges of a changing world.

Analysis

Balfour Beatty boosts clarity in green reporting

Balfour Beatty's zero-carbon building in Hong Kong generates its own energy from solar panels and biodiesel generators using waste cooking oil as fuel

The construction company’s new youth stakeholder panel has given a candid assessment of progress towards environmental goals

Analysis

Henkel’s strong progress illustrates difficulty of target setting

Henkel is yet to decide how to assess the impact of adhesives it sells to the car industry (photograph: Henkel)

The consumer products firm behind brands including Persil has almost met its 2015 sustainability goals, but it claims it is too early to judge whether it could be doing more

Analysis

Top ten firms using social media for sustainability revealed

Levis Strauss tops a ranking of companies using social media as part of their sustainability strategies (photograph: M62, CC-by-SA 2.0)

The latest trends in how companies are using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to engage customers and employees over sustainability are revealed in new research

Analysis

Novo Nordisk benefits from unsustainable lifestyles

Novo Nordisk R&D lab in China. Credit: Novo Nordisk

Business is booming at the drug company as unhealthy diets and inactive lifestyles contribute to the diabetes pandemic. Should it do more to help prevent the disease?

Analysis

Farmers and retailers urged to adopt a 'less but better' meat strategy

Chickens. Credit: aprilskiver CCA 3A

UK consumers need to eat less meat but pay more for it, according to a report into the complex trade offs in making food production more sustainable