Viability

Bhutan: Sustainable Happiness

At around the time Abba were raising a glass of Babycham to toast their number one chart success with Waterloo, the good folk of...
Black Mass, RS Bruce

Black Mass — not as creepy as it sounds…

UK firms extract vital minerals from solid mixture of metals and impurities in ‘game-changer’ for EVs A BRITISH deep-tech company focused on sustainable mineral extraction...
UN SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

SDG11: From city to slum: urban challenges that must be overcome

SDG11’s goal is to make cities “inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. As with all the SDGs, the aim is ambitious … and difficult to...
Landfill, bulldozer, waste management

Effective waste-management: a duty, not an option

A WELL-STRUCTURED waste management plan can affect the internal and external perspectives of a company. It can also make a company more desirable to work...

SANGU DELLE (CEO Golden Palm Investments): Entrepreneurial capitalism with a conscience

LIKE many successful businessmen, Sangu Delle’s career as a relentless money spinner began in the school playground. Unlike his contemporaries, for whom a pop-up...
Black Friday in Brazil

Black Friday: brawls, stampedes and security staff on full alert…

By Hal Williams BLACK Friday… it’s here again. The term was first used in America, with annual sales starting the day after Thanksgiving sparking shopaholic...
Money, Growth, Seedlings

High street hopes trump high ambitions for UK companies

UK BUSINESSES are “hyper-local” with few international aspirations, a recent survey revealed. As Brexit draws closer, more than half of those canvassed believe their local...
Aerial view of people walking

Scope 4 emissions: Are they relevant to your business?

By LAURA BOWLER and SHANE HUGHES SUSTAINABILITY and emissions reporting has become an expected business practice. The newly formed International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) recently published...
Earth, Climate Change

AI finds a niche in climate policy

AN OPEN AI-powered tool is unlocking over 1,600 documents and 170,000 pages of global climate policy and research. Climate Policy Radar’s Global Stocktake Explorer, funded...

Margaret Hodge: The Scourge of Tax Dodgers

The pinnacle of Margaret Hodge’s four decades in public life has arguably been the five years spent as the very high profile scourge of...