Leadership refers to the formal, earned and informal positions given, with associated power, to a relatively small group of people in an organisation to direct the group and resources. Given the scale and the urgent pace of change needed to decarbonise whole industries, leadership cannot be left to a small number of individuals with formally […]
Category: Net Zero
Practical Steps to decarbonise
Map your carbon footprint Organisations looking to decarbonise face the challenge of having to balance long-term, sustained transformation with delivering short-term results and value (CISL, 2018). To reconcile the two, efficient monitoring systems are required. This is an important first step for an organisation to comprehensively measure its carbon footprint, particularly in terms of identifying […]
Overcoming barriers to organisational change
Sue Garrard discusses her experience as the Executive Vice Principle of Sustainable Business and Communications at Unilever and some of the steps necessary for driving organisational change. She also outlines the challenges she encountered and overcame as well as the lessons learned while driving sustainability across her organisation. Sue Garrard posed four key questions for […]
Four tasks for business
Drafting an exemplary Net-0 response
Batteries – energy storage
Within the infrastructure sector (energy), one of the most critical pieces of the puzzle is battery storage. There are a multitude of technologies developing, though it’s not yet clear whether any will replace lithium batteries and solve the issue of limited resources such as lithium. A recent development in battery storage is a concentrated solar […]