Sustainability

Five takeaways from London Climate Action Week
London Climate Action Week has been in full force last week. Packed sessions, great networking and discussions with new and old friends, and a whole lot of focus, enthusiasm and commitment. All of which reinforced what we know to be true:…
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Sustainability 3.0: The Pragmatic Reset
The blog below forms an introduction to what will be an informal series of opinion and insight over the coming weeks around what we’re calling ‘Sustainability 3.0’, a new and necessary era of pragmatic sustainability action and communication. The sustainability movement…
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Our industry should be leading the charge on climate adaptation, not hiding behind it
Reality: climate impacts continue to reach unprecedented levels. Droughts, heatwaves, and floods are destroying livelihoods – not just in ‘other’, ‘emerging’ economies but here, in the West. Look at the US, where 2025 could see 19,000 repossessions due to climate risk,…
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The Living Danube Experience
We are standing along the vast floodplains of the Lower Danube. At this point along the river’s course, the Danube is almost a mile wide, a silvery, thick band of slow-moving water that bisects Bulgaria and Romania. We are on the…
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Work: sustainability reporting for Testa Homes
We’re proud to have worked with Testa Homes, a Blackstone business, on its inaugural ESG Report. The website is here. And the report itself can be read here. Months and months in the making, and it’s great to see this piece…
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“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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Six trends to watch: a Blurred view on sustainability in 2025
By Jeremy Cohen, Senior Partner With a knowing nod to our agency’s name, the best way I can sum up the outlook for ESG and sustainability in 2025 is ‘blurred’. In a polarized world, tensions pulling one way and the other…
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COP 29: political process failure points to clear responsibility for corporates
By Jeremy Cohen, Senior Partner and Georgie Smith, Senior Consultant For those of us absolutely desperate to put some kind of positive spin on COP29, yes a climate financing mechanism was established for ‘loss and damage’, helping some of the world’s…
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