Goals and Positions
Getting Started on Rights and Wellbeing at Work
January 20, 2026 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Workers are entitled to human and group rights while they are at work and companies must ensure they uphold and respect these rights. This includes taking action on respecting human dignity and integrity; ensuring safe and healthy working conditions; providing fair compensation; strengthening company-worker relations; building respectful, equitable, and inclusive workplaces; engaging in workforce planning and employee development; and supporting worker wellbeing. In this blog, we share insights from our Getting Started Guides on Rights and Wellbeing at Work.
Getting Started on Tackling Modern Slavery and Protecting Human Dignity and Integrity
July 22, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Human rights are inherent rights that we all have, simply because we exist as human beings. Company policies, practices, due diligence, culture, and decision-making must collectively ensure that workers’ human rights and dignity are respected. In this blog, we share insights from our Human Dignity and Integrity (Tackling Modern Slavery): A Getting Started Guide on how to respect the human rights and dignity of workers in your operations, supply chains, and business relationships.
Getting Started on Company-Worker Relations
May 27, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Maintaining good company-worker relations provides clear business benefits. Strong relationships, open communication, fostering psychological safety, effective grievance mechanisms, and workers’ ability to engage in their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining underpin the realisation of many other fundamental principles and rights at work. In this blog, we share insights from our guide on company-worker relations.
Getting Started on Climate and Energy
April 8, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
As the impacts of climate change worsen, the resilience of our environmental, social, and economic systems will be further threatened. It is crucial that organisations understand these risks; invest in adaptation; and take urgent and credible action to decarbonise and find way to remove carbon from the atmosphere to limit the damages of global heating. In this blog, we share insights from our series of guidebooks on climate and energy to build momentum for action in your company on climate risk preparedness, climate adaptation, and climate mitigation.
Getting Started on Water
March 4, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Water is vital to life, and water resources are finite and increasingly in crisis. The intertwined challenges of water scarcity, declining water quality, and losses of crucial water-related ecosystems are placing businesses and communities at risk. Many companies realise that they need a water stewardship or management strategy, but lack clarity on the work needed to develop and achieve their goals. In this blog, we share insights from our series of guidebooks on water to build momentum for action in your company on water stewardship, water quantity, and water quality.
Getting Started on Protecting Nature
February 6, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
The wellbeing of society and business is dependent on nature. Many companies realise that they need a strategy to protect and restore nature, regenerate land and soil, and/or ensure animal welfare, but lack clarity on the work needed to develop and achieve their goals. In this blog, we share insights from our series of guidebooks on protecting nature to bridge this gap and build momentum for action in your company.
Propel Your Sustainability Strategy with Process-based Targets
July 11, 2024 · By Stephanie Bertels & Mahroo Shahbaz
While companies may understand the long-term goals and high-level ambitions they need to set, they can be reluctant to commit because they don’t have enough clarity on the work and resources that are needed to get there. In this blog, we share insights from our research into process-based interim targets, and how they can help you to bridge the gap, build momentum, and maintain accountability.
Are Corporate Position Statements on Sustainability Worth the Time and Effort?
November 21, 2023 · By Stephanie Bertels and Rachel Dekker
Wondering if taking a corporate position on key sustainability issues is worth your organisation's time and effort? This blog post discusses how position statements can be an important avenue for productive debate, work to clarify expectations, and provide accountability for your sustainability commitments.
Emerging Trends in Climate Change Goals
November 10, 2022 · By Embedding Project
Climate change is already having a significant impact on the environment, on communities, and on economies. To address this crisis, companies must set ambitious and credible climate goals. This blog explores trends we have observed around climate goal setting in 2021-2022.
Companies Need to Take a Stand. Here’s How to Do It Right.
April 20, 2021 · By Brandon Toews
More than ever before, the public has turned its attention to business leaders and said “how are you going to be a part of the solution?” To help companies take a credible position, we have created a straight-forward eight-step approach that will help you to craft a comprehensive yet concise position statement on key issues.
Setting Strong Sustainability Goals Can Feel Hard. It Doesn’t Have To.
April 8, 2021 · By Brandon Toews
Customers, employees, communities, and even shareholders are demanding meaningful corporate action on sustainability. This blog post lists seven straight-forward questions to help you assess your company’s existing goals, or to consider as you develop your next round of sustainability goals.
Trends in Sustainability Goal Setting: Credible Corporate Climate Goals
April 6, 2021 · By Stephanie Bertels and Rachel Dekker
Climate change is projected to have significant impacts on economies, the stability of global financial markets, and the companies that operate within them. To address this crisis, companies are recognising they must set strong corporate climate goals. This blog post discusses encouraging and significant developments around climate goal setting in 2020-21.
