ESG
“I work in sustainability comms. How the hell do I do my job amidst a confusing, Trumpian culture war?”
By Stuart Lambert, co-founder We recently held an IRL event discussing this topic. Amazingly, 200 people turned up – corporate affairs directors, heads of comms, sustainability comms professionals, social impact leads, brand marketers. It was the most popular event we’ve put…
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Corporate sustainability is evolving. This demands a new roadmap for sustainability communications in 2025
By Anisha Vikram Shah, Senior Consulting Director 2024 was a turning point: the world topped 1.5°C of warming, biodiversity losses hit alarming levels, and major international negotiations failed to deliver outcomes. At the same time, anti-ESG sentiment and the ‘war on…
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From reducing harm to doing good: why it is positive impact that truly sets leaders apart
Founding Partner Stuart Lambert argues that we need to adopt the rigour of ESG in the Purpose space if companies are to reconcile sustainability, commerciality and comms, and launches Blurred's Anchor Goal concept and TRUE methodology for codifying a credible, quantifiable…
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The two ESG trends that will most affect communicators in 2024
Senior Partner Matt Peacock examines two emerging ESG trends that are going to affect the way companies and brands communicate and address reputational risk this year and beyond: the weaponisation of DEI, and the convergence of extreme weather impacts with…
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The madness of shale
Senior Partner Matt Peacock gives his perspective on the plausibility of a UK shale gas industry: “Of all of the many UK Government policy missteps I’ve encountered during my career, the notion that the UK could ever develop a functional…
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COP28: The Halfway Point
Consultant Talia Shehadeh runs the rule over what’s happened at COP so far (spoiler: not enough)
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The pressure is on: looking ahead to COP28
UN Secretary General António Guterres says “The era of global boiling has arrived” and that “climate inaction is unacceptable.” The pressure to increase the pace and scale of action is reaching an all-time high. With two months to…
View PostIf data is king, story is emperor
Senior Partner, Matt Peacock, argues that storytelling will be just as important as analytics in the new sustainability data-driven corporate world. Communicators need to learn how to do both.
… View PostCommunicators helped to ruin ESG. Now it’s time to get more precise.
Larry Fink has stopped using the term ‘ESG’, as it’s been “weaponised.” But anyone who thinks the idea behind ESG is itself dead could not be more wrong. The language is changing but the work remains the same. And whatever…
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