The Sustainability Agenda
Latest Episodes
Episode 9: Aron Cramer | Corporate sustainability – past progress and future questions
BSR has been providing socially responsible business solutions to many of the world’s leading companies for almost 25 years, working with 250 member companies around the world to create a more just and sustainable global economy. In this podcast,
Episode 8: Professor John Kay | The real meaning of sustainability
John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists and has a long-standing interest in the relationships between business and society; he has been writing about responsible business, the role of stakeholders, and business and society for several decades.
Episode 7: Professor CB Bhattacharya | How to integrate sustainability into the business
In this episode of the Sustainability Agenda, Professor CB Bhattacharya, one of the word’s leading sustainability researchers, gives his perspective on his evolution of corporate sustainability over recent decades.
Episode 6: Hazel Henderson| The future of sustainability
When it comes to getting a perspective on the future of sustainability, who better to speak to than renowned author, futurist and sustainability pioneer Hazel Henderson. A long-time pioneer promoting the integration of environmental and social consider...
Episode 5: Mardi McBrien | Why we need to integrate climate change-related information into mainstream financial reporting
It took many decades over the early 20th Century for a standardised way of presenting financial information to investors to evolve. A similar process is now under way in an effort to include non-financial information in mainstream accounts.
Episode 4: Susan Burns | What the ecological footprint tells us
By many measures, humans have shown themselves to be a pretty successful species. But we are living unsustainably. We are consuming more resources than the Earth can provide– we are in global ecological overshoot. The Ecological Footprint,
Episode 3: Mike Barry | The path to become the world’s most sustainable retailer
Marks & Spencer launched its Plan A progamme in 2007 with the ambition to make the company the world’s most sustainable major retailer. This far-reaching ecological and ethical programme is now in its 9th year. In this interview, Mike Barry,
Episode 2: Sean Kidney | Why climate bonds matter
Over the comings years, sums of between US$5 and $7 trillion a year will need to be invested in infrastructure, clean energy, water, sanitation, agriculture, to meet Sustainability Development Goals. New Climate Economy estimates that a massive $93tn ...
Episode 1: Ioannis Ioannou | The cast iron business case for sustainability
In the first episode of the Sustainability Agenda, noted sustainability scholar Professor Ioannis Ioannou unveils the latest research on corporate sustainability. The long-assumed trade-off between sustainability and profits, is it turns out,