Loading...
July 24, 2026 · By Brandon Toews, Stephanie Bertels, and Wayne Moodaley
The use of AI in sustainability is rapidly increasing, and while it has tremendous potential to increase the scale, quality, and pace of work, it also risks amplifying the consequences of poor judgement. This is the first entry in a three-part series where we explore the evolution and adoption of AI among sustainability teams; identify key trends that are crafting and controlling the narrative around AI; explain the social and environmental impacts of AI implementation; highlight risks, controls, and ways that sustainability professionals can more effectively integrate AI tools into their work; and explain how you can better prepare to meet assurance expectations.
June 23, 2026 · By Ralph Hamann and Jess Schulschenk
In this blog, we explore the role of corporate social investment (CSI) – financial contributions by companies to social causes, such as education, health, and enterprise development. CSI has a long tradition in South Africa and based on our collaboration with South African companies, we offer some reflections on how companies can best leverage their social investments that offer lessons for companies around the world.
May 6, 2026 · By Stephanie Bertels and Rachel Dekker
Many organisations are considering how to incorporate sustainability risks in their enterprise risk management (ERM) process to gain a more comprehensive view of their risk landscape. The question is how best to do so. In this blog, we explore how companies are approaching this task, identify key limitations of typical systems and processes, and ask whether businesses should be expanding their conversation about risk beyond risk appetite and risk tolerance to also consider risk imposition – the acceptable levels of risk that your business creates for others through its actions.
February 13, 2026 · By Brandon Toews and Stephanie Bertels
In this blog, we explore the growing need to strengthen non-financial (ESG) data and the steps your company can take to improve data quality and governance.
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.
November 3, 2025 · By Stephanie Bertels
Materiality assessments are increasingly expensive undertakings. In this blog post, we examine current practice and make suggestions for how to ensure your company gets value out of the process.
August 26, 2025 · By Stephanie Bertels
In this blog, we explain the concept of business sustainability, how it relates to other terms like ESG and regeneration, and why it makes business sense to take credible action on sustainability.
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.
June 23, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Unpredictable hours, eroded worker protections, low wages, no benefits – work has become more precarious for many. Workers around the world are increasingly reliant on informal, casual, or temporary work arrangements – from piecework jobs to the gig economy – to make ends meet. This rise is precarious work jeopardizes decent work. In this blog, we discuss the rising prevalence of precarious work and explore the role of companies in tackling (and preventing) vulnerable work arrangements.
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.