It is the wild west of sustainability consulting right now – awareness is high, but comprehension is low. There are sustainability practitioners (knowledgeable and qualified), subject-matter experts (knowledgeable in one or two areas that fall under the sustainability umbrella) and gunslingers (armed with the lingo but not the knowledge). The article provides clarity and guidance to companies trying to assess which of these characters to engage.

The Federal Reserve’s second round of Quantitative Easing or QE2 is set to launch next week.  Ask yourself and a half a dozen of your friends if you really know what that means.  Most of us don’t.

Those of us who are involved in this new profession called risk management are in a lot of trouble.

Today we launch the Call for Evidence for Tomorrow's Corporate Reporting - we are immensely grateful to PwC and CIMA for their support and for working so collaboratively to shape this programme of inquiry.

To avoid another credit crunch we cannot rely on regulation alone

 

The proposal from a cross-party commission for a "Hippocratic oath" which would "require bankers to take into account the impact of their activities on the wider economy and on society, rather than focusing on making a short-term profit" directly addresses the need to reconcile values and value creation.