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Mapping Nature Risk Across the Supply Chain: Insights from Natcap’s assessment for a global food & beverage company

A global food and beverage company knew its supply chain depended on nature, but had never measured where that dependence became a financial risk. With Natcap, it traced the risk to its producers, deepening its understanding of its exposure as a buyer. The case study shows how supply-chain nature risk is located, why soil quality was the surprise, and why the hardest part was never the analysis.

Buildings Already Have the Technology. What They Lack Is Trustworthy Data.

Commercial real estate now has the economic, regulatory, and technological foundations to reduce energy waste. But according to Mike Zatz, former EPA ENERGY STAR leader and now at Measurabl, the biggest barriers are no longer technical, they're access to performance data, limited capacity to act on it, and weak incentives to share it.

Harvard Research Shows Employee Ownership Works Only With the Right Management Practices

A sharp look at why the “S” in ESG needs stronger evidence, better workforce metrics and a more serious conversation about how companies share value with employees.

Inside AvalonBay's New York decarbonization programme: how software-led optimization delivered $540K in savings without major capex

How AvalonBay cleared early Local Law 97 caps across three Manhattan buildings using Parity's software-led HVAC optimization, delivering $540K in verified utility savings and 1,000+ tonnes of CO2 cut, with no equipment replacement or resident disruption. A working template for multifamily REITs facing building performance standards.

Kristina Wyatt on Climate, Nature and the Business Case for Resilience

Kristina Wyatt discusses why climate and nature can no longer be treated separately, and how companies can connect sustainability, conservation and resilience to practical business value.

Measuring the State of Nature for TNFD: Inside the NPI pilot with NatureHelm and New Forests

NatureHelm and New Forests put the Nature Positive Initiative's State of Nature metrics to the test across selected assets in five countries. The pilot shows what satellite data can and can't measure at scale, why landscape connectivity became the metric stakeholders cared about most, and what it means for measuring nature across a 4.4-million-hectare portfolio and for TNFD disclosure.

"We Spent Thirty Years Trying to Win a Game Designed for Us to Lose": Jeffrey Hollender on Seventh Generation, the Unilever Years, and What Comes After Sustainability

The Seventh Generation cofounder on why sustainability has failed to live up to its promise, what acquisition by Unilever cost the company beyond what he saw at the time, and the question every ESG & Sustainability leader should be asking instead of "how do I make my business less bad?

From Rating Project to Management System - How to turn a 200‑hour EcoVadis project into a manageable, guided journey for SMEs

Professor Andreas Rasche on the EU’s Omnibus and What Comes Next

An expert conversation with Professor Andreas Rasche on the EU’s Omnibus, what has changed in sustainability regulation, and how companies should think about expectations, risk, and what comes next.

Omnibus I: Fewer Companies in Scope, but the Risk Equation Remains Unchanged

Omnibus I narrows EU sustainability rules, but underlying ESG and supply-chain risks remain unchanged. Regulatory scope shifts; corporate exposure and responsibility do not.

Harvard Study Finds 74% of S&P 500 Companies Revised Their Emissions - What It Means for Corporate Reporting

A large majority of S&P 500 companies revise their annual greenhouse gas emissions disclosures, raising serious questions about the quality of climate-related data and the efficacy of America’s voluntary reporting system.

Nature Credits: Assigning Value to Nature in the Economy

Marianne Haahr leads the IAPB’s global push to scale high-integrity nature credits, and she shares her insights on how countries and companies can invest in nature through credible, evidence-based markets.