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Overview of climate policy, reporting, audit and oversight in the UK public sector
- Article
- 05 Mar 2024
The Climate Change Act 2008 compels the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and this paper looks at where the public sector can play a role in this journey. We look at governments’ contribution to CO2 emissions and what policies are in place for government entities to tackle these. We also look at the way money is allocated within government and how green targets could be interwoven into the budgeting process.
Outside Insights: How might we implement a citizen's income?
- Thought leadership report
- 09 Nov 2016
- Malcolm Torry
Basic income is a subject that is being discussed in many different spaces these days. This opinion piece by Dr Malcolm Torry, Director of Citizen’s Income Trust, explores four different methods of implementation for a basic income. It is a publication in our Outside Insights series, which gives a platform to alternative opinions.
Outside Insights: Quantifying natural and social capital
- Article
- 01 Nov 2015
- Adrian Henriques
Basic income is a subject that is being discussed in many different spaces these days. This opinion piece by Dr Malcolm Torry, Director of Citizen’s Income Trust, explores four different methods of implementation for a basic income. It is a publication in our Outside Insights series, which gives a platform to alternative opinions.
So what is economic success? Going beyond GDP and profit
- Promotional material
- 10 Feb 2014
This thought leadership project explores what we mean by economic success. It considers the role that GDP and profit play in this, and the potential for broader measures of economic success to help us balance our economic priorities, our social goals and the constraints imposed on us by the natural environment we live in.
Outside Insights: Who should value nature?
- Article
- 12 Dec 2014
- Dario Kenner
Much of the focus today is on how business quantifies its impact and dependency on nature and within that whether valuation is an appropriate approach. Dario Kenner, of Why Green Economy?, brings a refreshing new perspective by asking who should value nature because this will ultimately determine how and why it is done. This publication was launched at Rethinking Capitals: going beyond the financial
Outside Insights: Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age
- Article
- 12 Feb 2014
- Hazel Henderson
In this thought provoking and agenda-setting publication, co-published with Tomorrow’s Company, Hazel Henderson offers a new solution to obsolete frameworks. She advocates a transition to a ‘solar age’ as a pathway to a more green and sustainable economic future.
Outside Insights: Of Markets and Men
- Article
- 01 Jul 2012
- James Featherby
James Featherby raises thought provoking points about how finance has come to reflect Western thinking that is increasingly individualistic, reductionist, utilitarian, controlling and pragmatic and has set out key principles to change this.
Outside Insights: Beyond Accounting
- Report
- 20 Nov 2009
- Graham Hubbard
This Briefing highlights significant questions that need answers before sustainability reporting gains broad-based acceptance.
Outside Insights: Qualitative Growth
- Report
- 09 Oct 2009
- Hazel Henderson and Fritjof Capra
In this thought piece by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson, co-published with Tomorrow’s Company, GDP is questioned as a good measure for growth. It offers a conceptual framework for finding solutions to our current economic crisis that are economically sound, ecologically sustainable, and socially just.
Outside Insights: Competitiveness and Sustainability
- Article
- 12 Oct 2008
- David Bent
Some business people still think that sustainable business initiatives are just distractions from the real social responsibility of business: making profit. They worry that being ‘socially responsible’ will harm the company’s bottom-line edge and damage the nation’s competitiveness. In this report, David Bent asks if and how environmental issues can be tackled in ways that enhance competitiveness.
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