Resources

Watch the video of our event on how your business can align its strategy with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, with practical tips on how to engage your Board and senior management.

On Thursday 14th September, over 80 Sustainable Business Council members shared ideas about how sustainability can fit with a business’s brand narrative.

Professor Will Steffen, who works with the Stockholm Resilience Centre and is Councillor at Australia’s Climate Council, visited New Zealand to talk to business and government about climate change.

Professor Will Steffen, who works with the Stockholm Resilience Centre and is Councillor at Australia’s Climate Council, visited New Zealand to talk to business and government about climate change.

Sustainable Business Council Annual Meeting 2017 – Delivering value through partnerships.

At the NZ launch of the State of CSR Review 2017, Dr Leeora Black, Managing Director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, said that the surveyed NZ organisations see managing regulatory impacts as a top priority, and that gender equality is the top UN Sustainable Development Goal that these companies want to address.

“Trust impacts brand power and brand value,” said Sarah Bolger, Chief Client Officer at Colmar Brunton. Sarah talked about what it means for a company to have a good reputation and how three SBC members – Air New Zealand, Toyota and Z Energy – topped this year’s Colmar Brunton Corporate Reputation Index.

Dr Matthew Bell, EY Oceania Managing Partner of Climate Change and Sustainability Services, shares the latest insights on global megatrends and how business can embrace these as an emerging opportunity instead of a threat.