Navigating the Business Sustainability Agenda 07/06/2021 Live online 7-8 and 18 June
Your role as a change leader is about deploying disciplines and strategy in a way that will foster a sustainably profitable business and reporting these benefits to your customers, clients, shareholders, partners, employees and societal stakeholders
Join the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources in a 3 day live and interactive online short course on
7,8 & 18 June 2021.
Together with a cohort of likeminded professionals, you will develop your skills to lead transformative change to embed sustainability in your organisation. Learn from UCL academics and industry sustainability leaders:
Paul Ekins, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, UCL
Photo credit: Georgina Smith/UNEP / 03 Feb 2021
8 February 2021 (UNEP) Companies that ignore their impact on the environment don’t just alienate customers and turn off investors. Ultimately, says a new business brief from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), they face “existential challenges”.
The
GEO for Business brief,
Adapt to Survive: Business transformation in a time of uncertainty calls on businesses to dramatically reduce their environmental footprints. Failure to make the transformation, it warns, is a risk to their survival.
A how-to guide for businesses looking to transition to more sustainable practices and operations, the brief, which is the first of a series, builds on UNEP’s flagship report, the Global Environment Outlook 6 (GEO-6), a 2019 scientific study that examined the health of the planet. According to the brief, unless the world slashes the environmental degradation caused by energy, food and waste systems, many of the earth’s natu