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Have we mistaken CSR for sustainability? Why businesses need to rethink ESG

By Nana Adwoa BAAFIFor many organisations across Ghana, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles often look like corporate donations, tree planting exercises, school renovations, ...
From farm-to-table sourcing to waste reduction, 14 local businesses opened their doors during the city's first food ...
Pacific, top-quintile ESG portfolios outperformed regional benchmarks, though the sources of that outperformance differed by ...
After controlling for factor exposures, sustainability-focused portfolios retained stronger ESG characteristics while ...
By Lorraine Mac-PodsWest Africa stands at a defining moment in its development journey. The region is richly endowed with mineral resources, a youthful population, and growing industrial ambition. At ...
An “alphabet soup” of sustainability reporting standards has long been a bugbear for corporations working across borders. An ...
Many companies today overpromise what they can do with AI. They should learn from efforts to combat greenwashing and tighten standards.
For What It’s Worth is a live podcast about the stuff we use, the trends we question and the products we can’t stop talking about. Stream new episodes bi-weekly on YouTube, hosted by NBC Select ...
The AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE®) originated the AIA Framework for Design Excellence to equip and encourage architects to embrace sustainable design practices. Now widely adopted across the ...
Sustainability is a core value at the American Chemical Society. Our 150th milestone anniversary in April—with the month’s theme aptly as ‘Sustainability’— is a wonderful and meaningful time to ...
On 27 February 2026, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published examples of good and poor practice for using labels under the UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR”) in its ...
Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...