Reports & Insights

Reports & Insights

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  • Sep302020

    Due diligence on forest risk commodities: Defra’s consultation

    By Robyn Lockyer, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — The world’s treatment of its forests…

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  • Sep292020

    Sancroft in the media: Plastics in Packaging (October 2020)

    Our Director Felix is featured in the October issue (#228) of Plastics in Packaging posing…

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  • Sep292020

    Sancroft in the media: Medical Plastics News (September 2020)

    Our former Director Dom de Ville is featured in the September-October issue (#56) of Medical…

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  • Sep282020

    Unpicking the CFA’s ‘ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products’ consultation

    By Judy Kuszewski, Sancroft CEO with Ivaylo Dimov, former Senior Consultant and Michael Bateson former…

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  • Sep242020

    Sancroft in the media: Onboard Hospitality (September 2020)

    Our former Director Dom de Ville was featured in Onboard Hospitality discussing the importance of…

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  • Sep152020

    The future of fashion: event recap

    The fashion industry, like all others, has witnessed severe disruption as a result of the…

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  • Sep112020

    Sancroft in the media: Reuters Events Sustainable Business (September 2020)

    Former Sancroft Consultant, Pen Stuart, is featured in Reuters Events Sustainable Business exploreing the importance…

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  • Sep032020

    Sancroft in the media: Chartered Management Institute (August 2020)

    Sancroft Chairman, Lord Deben, is featured in Chartererd Management Institute discussing how the COVID-19 disruption…

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  • Sep012020

    Sancroft in the media: Materials Recycling World (August 2020)

    Our Director Felix Gummer is featured in Materials Recycling World discussing that when it comes…

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  • Aug282020

    Sancroft in the media: Packaging News (August 2020)

    Our Director Felix Gummer is featured in Packaging News discussing how plastic reduction and the…

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  • Aug272020

    Sancroft Monthly Insight: August Edition

    As I write this, the western US is battling hundreds of raging, fast-moving wildfires, fuelled…

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  • Aug272020

    Industry Spotlight: Finance and Human Rights

    Financial institutions are key players in the global sustainability agenda, and while environmental issues, such…

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  • Aug212020

    Upcoming webinar: Acceleration of the Energy Transition – a focus on energy and infrastructure

    We are pleased to announce the third in our series of ESG webinars with leading…

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  • Aug212020

    Navigating the wave of pandemic plastic

    By Ross Lakhdari, former Consultant at Sancroft. — September 2020 will mark six months since…

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  • Jul312020

    How the built environment sector can help deliver a sustainable recovery

    As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 crisis and continues to ease lockdown rules, the…

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  • Jul282020

    Sancroft Monthly Insight: July Edition

    This month the team and I have been reflecting on the changes we are seeing…

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  • Jul282020

    Black Lives Matter for your business

    The deaths of George Floyd, Ahamud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have sparked Black Lives Matter…

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  • Jul152020

    Protecting communities, supply chains and investment in a COVID-19 world – lessons from current scandals

    By Pendragon Stuart, former Consultant at Sancroft. — Stories of local lockdowns and COVID-19 outbreaks…

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  • Jul142020

    How ESG can maximise and protect value through a sustainable recovery

    By Erika Furbert Senior Analyst, and Ivaylo Dimov former Senior Consultant. — Prior to the…

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  • Jul072020

    Upcoming webinar: How the built environment sector can help deliver a sustainable recovery

    We are pleased to announce the second in our series of ESG webinars with leading…

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  • Jul032020

    Sancroft in the media: The Construction Index (June 2020)

    Our former Director Dom de Ville was featured in an interview in The Construction Index…

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  • Jun302020

    Green recovery: Why resilience through the lens of sustainability is the only strategy

    This article was first published on Edie.  Business can never be the same again. If…

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  • Jun302020

    The future of fashion: Rethinking the post-Covid transition

    By Robyn Lockyer, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — As we move away from brands’…

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  • Jun302020

    Sancroft Monthly Insight: June Edition

    The killing of George Floyd has brought the Black Lives Matter movement into the spotlight…

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  • Jun292020

    Upcoming ESG webinar series

    We are excited to announce a series of five webinars we are hosting in partnership…

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  • Jun252020

    Plastics, packaging and waste reform: what next?

    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense businesses disruption in the UK and across the globe.…

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  • Jun192020

    Upcoming online event: How ESG can maximise and protect value through a sustainable recovery

    We are excited to announce the first of a series of webinars we are hosting…

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  • Jun152020

    The National Food Strategy and the impact of COVID-19

    Empty supermarket shelves during the current COVID-19 crisis have been a stark reminder of the…

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  • Jun032020

    Sancroft in the media: Packaging Scotland (June 2020)

    Hear from our former Senior Consultant, Dom de Ville on why organisations must prepare for…

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  • Jun032020

    Sancroft Monthly Insight: May Edition

    May has seen the continuation of many themes we have been seeing over the past…

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  • Jun032020

    From Emergency to Emergence: Building Resilience for a Real Recovery

    Business can never be the same. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated changes, in a way…

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  • May292020

    Sancroft in the media: Foodservice Footprint (May 2020 – 2/2)

    See Foodservice Footprint for ‘Assume plastic plans are dead at your peril?’, an comment piece…

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  • May292020

    The economy may be weak, but the need to address plastics is as strong as ever

    The Covid-19 outbreak has caused the largest disruption to business in the UK since the…

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  • May282020

    Sancroft in the media: Construction Manager (May 2020)

    See Construction Manager for ‘Dealing with construction’s plastics time bomb’, an insight piece from Sancroft…

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  • May272020

    Your quick guide to Modern Slavery Reporting during Covid-19

    By Aran Spivey, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — The UK Government has announced that…

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  • May262020

    Sancroft in the media: Foodservice Footprint (May 2020 – 1/2)

    See Foodservice Footprint for ‘What’s on hold due to Covid?’, an insight piece from Nick…

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  • May192020

    A spotlight on corporate purpose during a time of crisis

    By Ross Lakhdari, former Consultant at Sancroft. — We hear more and more of how…

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  • May132020

    Sancroft in the media: New Food Magazine (May 2020)

    See New Food Magazine for ‘Plastic packaging tax: turning negatives into positives’, an insight piece…

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  • May062020

    Sancroft in the media: Dairy Industries International (May 2020)

    See pp. 23-34 for ‘The ticking clocks’, an insight piece from our former Senior Consultant…

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  • May012020

    Sancroft in the media: Rail Professional (May 2020)

    See pp. 63-67 of the May 2020 edition of Rail Professional for ‘Supply chain disruption’,…

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  • Apr282020
    Sancroft Monthly Insight April Edition 2020

    Sancroft Monthly Insight: April Edition

    As expected, the month of April has brought with it significant challenge to many walks…

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  • Apr272020
    Sancroft Upcoming Event Plastics & Packaging

    Upcoming online event: plastics and packaging

    Following the success of our previous events on plastics, packaging and waste reform, Sancroft shall…

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  • Apr272020
    Sancroft ESG: The New. Normal For Wealth Preservation

    ESG: the new normal for wealth preservation

    By Ivaylo Dimov, former Senior Consultant at Sancroft. — History has taught us, time and…

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  • Apr272020
    Sancroft Aligning With the TCFD

    Managing climate risk: aligning with the TCFD

    By Robyn Lockyer, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — Over the past six months, investors…

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  • Apr272020
    Sancroft From Opt-In to All-In

    From opt-in to all-in: Is corporate sustainability going mandatory?

    As we remain in our lockdown bunkers, I am sure most of us are conscientiously…

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  • Apr172020

    Sancroft in the media: Food Manufacture (April 2020)

    See Food Manufacture for ‘Plastics and packaging time-bomb: how should the food industry respond?’, an…

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  • Apr152020

    Sancroft in the media: Plastics in Packaging (April 2020)

    See p. 13 of the April edition of Plastics in Packaging for ‘The plastics packaging…

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  • Apr012020

    Sancroft in the media: Sustainable Plastics (April 2020)

    See pp. 26-27 for ‘What can industry do to prepare for the plastics in packaging…

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  • Mar252020

    Covid-19: Sancroft is here to support you

    These are unprecedented times and we all are faced with questions and challenges which would…

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  • Mar252020

    Sancroft monthly insight: March edition

    In preparing this month’s newsletter, we thought long and hard about the attention we should…

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  • Mar252020

    Human Rights Impact Assessments: how to get it right

    By Aran Spivey, former Senior Consultant at Sancroft. — Amidst the growing consensus around the…

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  • Mar252020

    Bursting the Carbon Bubble

    What are the risks and opportunities facing business and investors in a carbon-constrained future? This…

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  • Mar252020

    Sustainability in the construction sector

    By Michael Bateson, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — The construction sector is a critical…

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  • Mar252020

    The Plastic Packaging Tax: everything you need to know

    By Michael Bateson, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — After nearly a year of waiting…

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  • Mar242020

    Sancroft in the media: Personnel Today (March 2020)

    See Personnel Today for ‘Modern slavery: Why HR should be the champion for all workers’…

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  • Feb282020

    Sancroft in the media: Packaging News (February 2020)

    See Packaging News for ‘The financial time-bomb’, an insight piece from our former Senior Consultant,…

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  • Feb262020

    Sancroft monthly insight: February edition

    In the year that the UK leaves the European Union under a premise of being…

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  • Feb262020

    Sustainable supply chains: securing your competitive position

    By Pendragon Stuart, former Consultant at Sancroft. — For businesses who fail to take care…

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  • Feb262020

    Four sustainability regulations to watch for 2020

    By Michael Bateson, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — One of the principal challenges for…

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  • Feb262020

    ESG reporting hits the mainstream: How to make yours stand out

    By Ivaylo Dimov, former Senior Consultant at Sancroft. — Attention to ESG has hit unprecedented…

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  • Feb262020

    The competitive advantage from sustainability for fashion businesses

    By Robyn Lockyer, former Senior Analyst at Sancroft. — As the focus of the global…

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  • Feb142020

    Sancroft in the media: Info Magazine (Winter 2020 Edition)

    See p. 47 of the Winter 2020 issue of Info Magazine for ‘Radical transparency’, a…

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  • Feb122020

    Sancroft in the media: CEO Today (February 2020)

    See the February 2020 issue of CEO Today for ‘Microsoft’s Carbon Negative Pledge: Is CSR…

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  • Feb072020

    Sancroft in the media: HR Zone (February 2020)

    See HR Zone for ‘The rise of employee activism: a defining issue for HR in…

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  • Jan312020

    Sancroft in the media: Governance Issue 305 (January 2020)

    See Issue 305 (January 2020) of Governance for ‘Governance in a glass box’, a piece…

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  • Jan292020

    Sancroft monthly insight: January 2020 Edition

    One of the biggest challenges that organisations face at the beginning of what some are…

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  • Jan292020

    Building a strategy for plastics and packaging

    By Dom de Ville, former Director at Sancroft. — The use and disposal of plastic…

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  • Jan292020

    Transparency takeover and multiplying benchmarks – the business opportunity

    By Pendragon Stuart, former Consultant at Sancroft. — Business used to thrive based on what…

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  • Jan292020

    How to unpick the plastic packaging problem

    By Ross Lakhdari, former Consultant at Sancroft. — Coca Cola’s recent announcement at Davos that…

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  • Jan292020

    Biodiversity: growing focus for regulators and businesses

    Biodiversity is a topic that we can expect to hear much more of in the…

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  • Dec102019

    New packaging rules will require fundamental refocus of business models

    By Dom de Ville, former Director at Sancroft. — A panel comprising Judith Batchelar, director…

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  • Dec062019

    Plastics and packaging | From disruption to business opportunity: A blueprint for business transformation

    By Dom de Ville, former Director at Sancroft. — Businesses who use or produce significant…

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