Insights We are committed to sharing our knowledge to support your organisation on its ESG and sustainability journey. Filters All sectors Corporate Financial All services Capacity Building ESG due diligence ESG integration Governance and risk management Reporting and Disclosures Sancroft briefing Sustainability Strategies All topics Adaptation Agriculture Apparel Biodiversity Carbon Reduction Circular Principles Climate Change Construction and development Diversity and inclusion Energy Finance Food and Beverage Health Human Rights Leadership Plastic Plastics and Packaging Regulation Risk Management Sport Supply Chains Sustainability Reporting and Disclosures Sustainability Strategies Sustainable Finance Technology Read more By Ilkka Saarinen• 21st Mar, 2023 Biodiversity: the key to long-term resilience for the food industry Recent reports of food shortages in the UK highlights the vulnerability of our food systems and the urgent need to find solutions for resilience. To… Read more By Noëlle Smits van Waesberghe• 21st Mar, 2023 Planet on Trial: the surging trend of corporate climate litigation Last month, a ground-breaking legal action was taken against Shell’s Board of Directors for neglecting to address the risks climate change poses to the oil… Read more By Alex Miller• 21st Mar, 2023 What the FCA’s Asset Management Supervision Strategy means for asset managers and ESG In February, the FCA published a letter to asset management CEOs summarising the key priorities in its upcoming regulatory review of this systemically important sector…. Read more By Felix Gummer• 25th Jan, 2023 What is stopping you cutting out waste? – Four steps to overcoming the barriers to change My passion for sustainability was born and nurtured out of an abhorrence of waste. Waste in every sense, but particularly the systems that perpetuate wasteful… Read more By Rachel Weller• 25th Jan, 2023 Key trends from the world’s largest annual gathering on business and human rights Key trends from the world’s largest annual gathering on business and human rights Human rights is fast becoming a priority for businesses, investors and regulators…. Read more By Ailsa Dormon• 24th Jan, 2023 ‘Business is best placed to deliver the changes we need to live sustainably’ Lord Deben on Sancroft in its 25th year When Lord Deben founded Sancroft in 1997 his core belief was that business is best placed to deliver the changes we need to live sustainably…. Read more By Erika Furbert• 24th Jan, 2023 Biodiversity is moving up the regulatory agenda: What does this mean for your business? According to the latest UN Sustainable Development Goal progress report, more than 40,000 species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades. Many experts… Read more By Sancroft Team• 16th Jan, 2023 Sancroft 2023 predictions We asked the Sancroft team what they think should be top of business sustainability agenda in 2023. Here’s what they said: Penalties for greenwashing –… Read more By Ilkka Saarinen• 25th Nov, 2022 Finance Day at COP27: Key themes and takeaways for investors The role and profile of finance as an essential enabler of climate action took a massive step forward at COP26 last year. This year, Wednesday… Read more By Noëlle Smits van Waesberghe• 24th Nov, 2022 The transition to sustainable food systems: has COP27 made a difference? For the first time at a UN climate conference, an entire day was dedicated to agriculture and food – and not a minute too soon!… Read more By Charlotte Miller• 23rd Nov, 2022 Representation matters: women and climate change is a business leadership issue The image of world leaders at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt drew immediate questions as to where the women were. Just seven of the 110… Read more By Sancroft Team• 17th Nov, 2022 Learning from Qatar: the future for football and human rights There has never been a time when the relationship between football and human rights was more in the spotlight. 1 2 3 … 12