If you are interested in participating in this course please e-mail: hello@idealmedia.org.uk Sustainable Business: Leading the Change Sustainable business in 2010 means working with the bigger picture and aligning business goals with social and environmental objectives. The UN mandated UPEACE Centre for Executive Education is visiting London to deliver a workshop on corporate responsibility (CR). [...]

Panelists: Henning Drager, Head of Sustainability at ACCA and Mark Bromley, Head of Business Performance at EDF Energy

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.

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.

We have posted some video clips from the Green Leaders event. Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business in the UK and the US. You can view Jeremy’s comments on Peak Oil and the process of “re-engineering capitalism” which is needed to avoid severe global macroeconomic impacts.

Jeremy Leggett – SolarCentury; and Scott McGregor – Camco will be sharing their personal views on how the politics of energy and climate change will create business opportunities over the coming 5 years, how companies – private and public – can be entrepreneurial in the sustainability space, and where in the world to expect low-carbon business leadership in 2010-2011.

Net Impact London Professional submitted a Freedom of Information request to UKFI. The response implies that the company did not consider the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) part of best institutional shareholding practice.

Net Impact London Professional (NILP) with the support of London Business School’s Energy Markets Group is delighted to host a timely discussion event at the Regents Park campus on 1 October 2009. People – See the latest salary survey research from Acre Resources, one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies for climate and sustainability-related organisations. [...]

The current market environment has shown us the underbelly of un-sustainable finance and what happens when trust in capital markets falls apart. How does the current crisis affect the movement towards mainstreaming sustainability in finance and business that has developed over the past 10 years? What’s the role of sustainability in our future capital allocation [...]

On 27 January 2009 we are holding our first AGM before our January speaker event.  Come and have your say.  Become a Net Impact Member here and make sure you tick the box on the application to affiliate to the London Chapter to ensure you have voting rights. Want to join our team? We’re seeking new [...]

On behalf of the London Net Impact Professional Chapter and the Responsible Business Club at London Business School, we are pleased to invite you to our next event, where we will hear from Jed Emerson. His concept of Blended Value Investing challenges traditional notions of value and argues that organisations of all kinds should pursue [...]

The debate is largely over. Climate change is a threat to our global “business as usual”, but it’s business that needs to deliver the solutions. Fiscal incentives and public sector directives to change the behaviour of industries and private citizens – such as the UK’s Renewables Obligation or Spain’s Renewable Energy Plan – are creating [...]