Terence Jeyaretnam's Blog Posts Tagged 'Net Balance' (2)

The evidence is finally in. Business transactions do result in significant externalised environmental impact, which, if monetised, would result in a third of all profits from the world’s largest companies being eroded away. A recent report by Trucost to the United Nations has made this finding after modeling the environmental impact of the world’s largest 3,000 companies.



The report comes amid growing concern that businesses are merely paying… Continue

With the black clouds of the GFC looming upon us at the start of 2009, we were cornered to ask some big questions. So what of business sustainability? Is it still important?



Would businesses still seek to be green, or would the sustainability budget be one of the first to be cut? But, we were optimistic. In 2008 we noted that ‘Our feeling is that there will be some natural attrition of sustainability ‘excess’. However, for the large part, there will be retention of… Continue