The issues around the how, what and who of corporate reporting continue to run around the same loops that they have been on for some time if the content of the clinic conversation we had recently is anything to go by. The issue of sustainability reporting – as a subset of the corporate reporting agenda more generally – continues to get subsumed into the wider angst about purpose, about audience and about impact of the reporting process and outputs.

As the global financial crisis continues and we await the next wave of bad economic news or the details of the next bank to collapse there are some who think that this is all a jolly good thing.

We had the launch of our pamphlet, Tomorrow’s Climate: Beyond Peak Carbon at the Institution of Civil Engineers last night. It went well, good speakers (Lord Smith and our very own David Vigar) and good attendance