Drive Sustainability at Scale

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February

Get it while it's hot: Why McKinsey calls adaption a ''buy'', and how to sell it to the CFO

Decarbonisation

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Forming a Strategy & Vision

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Internal Engagement

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Sustainability Teams

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Adaptation is underfunded despite a clear ROI — every $1 invested returns $3 in avoided damages, yet the world falls far short of the $1.2T/year needed by 2050.

Plan for 2°C, not 1.5°C — virtually all emissions scenarios point to 1.5°C by 2030 and 2°C by 2050, and adaptation measures take years to implement.

3 billion people lack adequate protection today — mostly in low- and middle-income countries already exposed to heat, flooding, drought, and wildfire.

Corporate risk is hiding in supply chains — companies over-engineer their own assets but overlook indirect exposures in sourcing, logistics, and distribution.

Leading companies are stepping up beyond their own walls — investing in farmer insurance, irrigation, and cold chain infrastructure where governments can't, tying community resilience to their own business continuity.

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February

The 2026 Bear-Market for Green Jobs: Why You Need to Be Anti-Fragile

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Policy & Regulation

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The sustainability function is being absorbed, not eliminated — most of the work is migrating into procurement, supply chain, and finance, not disappearing entirely.

Be antifragile, not just resilient — build hard, transferable skills (data, insights, stakeholder management) that are most valuable precisely when things go wrong.

In corporates, follow the margin — high-margin companies in pharma, personal care, flavours, and fragrances are the most committed and resourced to sustain the function long term.

Consulting is shrinking, software is consolidating — both are riskier bets right now; wait for the software market to consolidate before picking a side.

Nonprofits may be a hidden opportunity — after two bruising years, many have reset and stabilised; the need for honest brokers bridging corporations and governments isn't going away.

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January

Beyond Recycling: Why Fixing Waste Requires System-Level Change

Decarbonisation

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Forming a Strategy & Vision

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Sustainability Teams

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Small packaging is the real enemy : sachets and multi-layer films are nearly impossible to collect or recycle economically; PET bottles are actually one of the good guys.

Most waste never gets collected : 2.3 billion people have no collection, making infrastructure the most urgent fix before recycling technology even matters.

Waste-to-energy locks you in : oversized plants create perverse incentives to keep generating waste and undermine recycling efforts.

Technically recyclable ≠ actually recycled : without end-market demand and minimum recycled content regulation, the business case for recycling simply doesn't exist.

Design for the consumer : the simplest thing brands can do is make packaging that people instinctively know how to recycle