‘The Boardroom and HR’s Role – with Sir john Egan’ forms the first report from a series of roundtable dialogues that the CIPD and Tomorrow’s Company are hosting to explore issues around how HR leaders can work with leaders and boardrooms to help shape tomorrow’s sustainable and adaptable organisations.

This briefing summarises projected growth patterns of the Global Green Economy, which in turn provides a case for businesses to invest in the emerging green industry which is predicted to be a dominant economic force. This paper does not focus on the pragmatic details of “greening an individual business” but rather provides an overview of the Green Economy as a whole entity.

Natural capital – our ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources – underpins economies, societies and individual wellbeing. The values of its myriad benefits are, however, often overlooked or poorly understood. They are rarely taken fully into accountthrough economic signals in markets, or in day to day decisions by business and citizens, nor indeed reflected adequately in the accounts of society. The steady loss of forests, soils, wetlands and coral reefs is closely tied to this economic invisibility. So too are the losses of species and of productive assets like fisheries, driven partly by ignoring values beyond the immediate and private. We are running down our natural capital stock without understanding the value of what we are losing. Missed opportunities to invest in this natural capital contribute to the biodiversity crisisthat is becoming more evident and more pressing by the day. The degradation of soils, air, water and biological resources can negatively impact on...

This Briefing Document, by Tomorrow’s Company, summarises the international initiative on ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB), and focuses on the roles that businesses can play in that initiative. It presents the business case for the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. The Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents are intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to a particular topic. You can find the full list of Briefing Documents on forceforgood.com here. 

This Briefing Document, by Tomorrow’s Company, summarises microfinance and its increasing importance. It also briefly describes the most controversial issues surrounding different facets of microfinance.