Net Impact is a proud marketing partner of Guardian Sustainable Business Quarterly (GSBQ). Following the success of the inaugural event last month, the Guardian are pleased to announce that the second GSBQ, in association with the 2degrees network, is taking place on 14 September. Free for sustainability professionals, this evening event will give you the [...]

Net Impact London is launching its autumn calendar with an in depth look at a developing business trend that has experienced huge growth: reporting financial performance along with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data together in a single document. There are tremendous cost-saving and efficiency benefits to integrating separate data-gathering processes in this manner.

Net Impact London Professional is delighted to bring together influential speakers from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and corporate members of the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) to discuss the risks and impacts on business operations and investments as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting integrated ESG reporting.

Earlier this week Renault were exposed by the Advertising Standards Authority for proudly advertising in the UK press a 90% reduction in carbon impact of the Renault Fluence, an electric powered vehicle due to launch in 2012. The company based the calculation on an assumption that the car is drawing its energy from the French [...]

Do you think the “hand holding a growing seedling” is the worst visual cliché in sustainable business PR? If you want to join my Corporate Rejection of Anatomical Plant Pots campaign make a supportive comment on the site.

Also, the launch of the Net Impact London Professional partnership with The Hub. Top entrepreneurship author and professor, John Mullins, presents his book Getting to Plan B with two leading low carbon entrepreneurs.  Mark Chadwick of Carbon Clear and Sue Igoe of RecycleBank. For more details and sign-up links, please see http://lowcarbonplan.eventbrite.com

Net Impact London Professional is pleased to wish everyone a happy New Year and to announce an exciting event in February 2010: Retail – Meeting the Sustainability Challenge. The event will take place at the PwC offices with registration at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start to the panel session. The evening will take the form [...]

Prompted by a comment of James Cameron, that “every one in five pounds paid out as a dividend in 2009 came from BP” we checked the figures. It is indeed true. UK companies paid out £56.9bn to investors in 2009. BP and Shell paid a quarter of all UK dividends according to the Guardian newspaper. [...]

Fiona Harvey – Financial Times; James Cameron – Climate Change Capital; and Colin Church – DECC will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.

Adair Turner, the chair of the UK’s Financial Services Authority, memorably expressed the belief that “market economies will not of themselves combine [enterprise] with environmental sustainability or with a reasonably just and good society.” Dramatically he declared that “capitalism needs to be saved from itself.”

Net Impact London Professional is pleased to wish everyone a happy New Year and to announce an exciting event in February 2010: Retail – Meeting the Sustainability Challenge. The event will take place at the PwC offices with registration at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start to the panel session. The evening will take the form [...]

Prompted by a comment of James Cameron, that “every one in five pounds paid out as a dividend in 2009 came from BP” we checked the figures. It is indeed true. UK companies paid out £56.9bn to investors in 2009. BP and Shell paid a quarter of all UK dividends according to the Guardian newspaper. [...]

The 2010 EABIS Colloquium will explore how Corporate Responsibility is understood and applied in Emerging Market contexts and cultures – by old and new multinationals – and if it is viable as a framework for tackling critical challenges ahead. The Colloquium takes place on 20-21 September 2010 hosted by St. Petersburg State University GSOM. EABIS [...]

Fiona Harvey – Financial Times; James Cameron – Climate Change Capital; and Colin Church – DECC will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.

Sir Crispin Tickell 6th May 2010, 18:15-19:45, Cranfield Management Research Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford.   “Development: what should it mean?” Sir Crispin Tickell has had a distinguished diplomatic career. He was Chef de Cabine to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration(now Department [...]

This special summer event will begin with a picnic and casual games of croquet at the Thames Barrier followed by a private guided tour of the site, which features models, videos and displays to explain the history and environment of the River Thames and how the Thames Barrier was designed and built, and how it works. The day will cap off with a scenic boat trip along the River taking us back to city central.

Join us for an in-depth presentation of the results of the 2010 Corporate Responsibility Salary Survey. Completed by nearly 600 CR professionals worldwide this year’s results are some of the most exciting ever, and provides clarity and transparency to the roles, salaries and backgrounds of the professionals working in this space. This informative study on [...]