While sustainability materiality assessments have been a core part of BRODIE’s service offer since the beginning, February marks one year since we completed our first ‘double materiality’ assessment as required by the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This milestone has inspired me to share some of our key learnings from working with a number of partners (and at least three iterations of the EFRAG double materiality guidance) over the past 12 months.
Read MoreThe state of nature was a dominate theme of the Anthropy 2023 conference. The conference provoked much discussion on the importance of the private sector’s role in protecting and restoring nature. Business and environmental NGO speakers pointed to hesitation from some corporates towards ‘nature-positive’ business strategies and how this can be overcome. This blog explores what I heard.
Read MoreOver 80% of UK and US consumers enjoy being in nature and appreciate the impact it has on their mental and physical wellbeing. This is a key outtake from BRODIE’s soon-to-be-released annual Sustainability Sentiment Tracker which aims to uncover what consumers really think about sustainability through objective and broad analysis. For the first time this year, we included nature-related questions – and to mark World Environment Day, we wanted to share some of our findings.
Read MoreBRODIE’s Key Takeaways from the Innovation Forum’s Responsible Sourcing and Ethical Trade Forum 2023
Read MoreOne of our newest team members recently completed a short course in Business Sustainability Management at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). The eight-week online course brings together business professionals from all over the globe and is designed to address the growing and urgent need of sustainability practice in business. She shares some key takeaways and reflections.
Read MoreSocial and environmental issues caused by the way the world currently grows its food are firmly on the global agenda. At the UN Climate Conference (COP27) this November, agrifood systems had five interactive discussion pavilions and a whole day of the high-level negotiations dedicated to them for the first time.
Read MoreBRODIE’s Key Takeaways from the World Biodiversity Summit 2022
Read MoreBRODIE’s outlook on the six key sustainability trends we are seeing and where we expect growth in the year ahead.
Read MoreA sustainable business doesn’t happen by accident. Becoming sustainable requires a strategy and for that strategy to succeed it requires a connection to the financial health of a company. We’ve identified 10 elements that go towards connecting sustainability and profitability.
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