We’ve compiled a quick sustainability round-up of the top news, features, and interviews from our website, covering the highlights of week 21 of 2023.
1. Evolution of the supply chain: What is sustainable procurement?
What is sustainable procurement – and how best should you go about it? Generally, when someone talks of sustainable procurement, they talk of ‘how businesses can identify and reduce the environmental impacts of their supply chains’, per the…
2. UK to partner with US carbon emissions removal scheme
Net zero minister Grant Shapps has confirmed the UK will back President Biden’s drive to remove and store global carbon emissions as it forges closer links with the United States on energy security…
3. How will CSRD affect UK businesses?
The EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) came into effect on 5 January 2023, modernising regulations for social and environmental company reporting. But how will it affect UK businesses?
4. SASB reporting standards to be made more globally relevant
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has voted to issue an update to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (SASB) legacy standards…
5. What is ESG investing?
ESG investing is a growing trend in finance, and this article aims to provide context to the term and explain the reasons behind its exponential growth…