Sustainability Reporting at Crossroads
Sustainability Reporting at Crossroads: Reporting Trends Survey (Utopies Consulting, 2012) With Romain Brillie and Nicolas Delange as lead authors, benchmarking of sustainability reports by 56 corporations, interviews with 28 sustainability experts, investors and communications specialists, and national emerging market reviews provided by partners from Brazil, India, China and South Africa.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise (Earthscan 2011) – Measuring and Reporting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Impacts and Dependence, Chapter 3 Lead co-author with Sean Gilbert (GRI) and William Evison (PricewaterhouseCoopers). Contribution to the TEEB Business report, on integration of ecosystems data in information management, accounting and reporting, investment decision-making.
Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream
Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting, chapter 19 (Springer 2015) Contribution to Sonnemann, G. and Margni, M. (eds) 2015. Life Cycle Management (LCA Compendium: The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment). Dordrecht: Springer. Considers connection between LCA metrics and corporate financial value drivers.
The Sustainability Business Case
The Sustainability Business Case: A Model for Incorporating Financial Value Drivers, The Conference Board, Director Note(DN-V5N12-13 2013) Business case analysis by Marc Bertoneche of Harvard and myself. Updated version published in The Conference Board’s Sustainability Matters 2014, Research Report R-1538-14-R, 2014.
Finding the God particle of the sustainability business case
Finding the God particle of the sustainability business case: Greener pastures for shareholder value, Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 13-072 (HBS 2013) Co-written with Marc Bertoneche, Visiting Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. Illustrates a refined Green Business Case Model, including seven core financial value drivers.
Nature in Performance (World Resources Institute 2011)
Nature in Performance (World Resources Institute 2011) Co-authored with Graig Hanson and Suzanne Ozment of the WRI, a concise guide on the integration of ecosystem services into business performance systems incl ISO14001 environmental management systems, Global Compact Performance Model and WRI / WBCSD Corporate Ecosystem Services Review.
Towards a Green Economy (UNEP 2011), Manufacturing Chapter, co-lead author with Prof Robert Ayres, INSEAD
Towards a Green Economy (UNEP 2011), Manufacturing Chapter, co-lead author with Prof Robert Ayres, INSEAD Contribution to UNEP Green Economy Report, covering risks and opportunities facing manufacturing in a resource-constrained world, the costs of business-as-usual, supply and demand side strategies for greening and lean manufacturing.
Working Towards Sustainable Development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a Green Economy (ILO et.al. 2012)
Working Towards Sustainable Development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a Green Economy (ILO et.al. 2012) Manufacturing and Buildings Chapters, contributing author with Michael Renner, Worldwatch Institute. Part of updated ILO Green Jobs Report, addressing growth and employment opportunities in greening of manufacturing, building & construction including emerging skills requirements.
Unchaining Value: Innovative approaches to sustainable supply (SustainAbility, UNEP and UN Global Compact, 2008)
Unchaining Value: Innovative approaches to sustainable supply (SustainAbility, UNEP and UN Global Compact, 2008) Worked with the SustainAbility team in developing this report, addressing new trends in global supply chain management and applying a partnership approach in value chains to advance social responsibility standards. Focused on the ICT and Agrifood industries including global commodity initiatives.
Climate-related financial disclosures: Task Force seeks to nudge-rock the system
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we lived in a world where everything is not presented in simplistic polar oppositions? For example assuming that not prioritising shareholders implies prioritising the whole world, that all shareholders are the same and opposed to the sustainability world, that assessing financial impacts implies excluding sustainability impacts, and that the enterprise […]