John Davies

The 50th anniversary of Earth Day will take place on April 22, 2020. Given the projections for the apex of the coronavirus still weeks away, the world is going to look a lot different on Earth Day. While it may be best to tamper our optimism, with a few members suggesting pausing efforts until World Environment Day, other members are moving ahead, transitioning their efforts to a virtual engagement strategy. Read More

How do you justify a company's sustainability investments? There's an app for that. Read More

Automation and artificial intelligence are being leveraged to both generate and evaluate ESG data. Is that a good thing? Read More

One member asks, "Are members evaluating their annual sustainability reporting practices and amending based on COVID-19, including what information they are including, if they will be providing a pared down report this year, or otherwise? We are evaluating our approach as a critical business to responding to COVID-19, and whether we will request as much information from our partners given their necessary focus on response and management of the crisis. Appreciate all thoughts!" Read More

One member asks, "If you have a Scope 3 target, how are you tracking your supply chain emissions to measure progress against your target. What systems are you using (spreadsheet, CDP Supply Chain, other third-party systems, etc.) to collect this emissions data from suppliers?" Read More

One member asks, "We’d love to hear from members about employee competitions or contests that they have hosted to raise awareness on sustainability and to engage the general employee population. Did you focus on something fun? Something relevant for business? Was it among individual employees or teams or sites? How did the “winners” get acknowledged? What was the long-term impact and would you do it again?" Read More

One member asks, "I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a company that is developing and deploying really good internal policies and comms on COVID-19? I know that is a very broad question in a very fluid area but the head of HR asked for some help on answering the following. We are already actions and steps on many of the questions below, but want to benchmark our response to ensure we are capturing best practices. Read More

One member asks, "What team(s) within your company manages the annual updates of the Modern Slavery Statement? Our company is receiving customer requests to review and attest to various policies and statements, related to mainly Modern Slavery. What systems and/or processes are in place to manage and address these requests? What role does the sustainability team play in such process?" Read More

One member writes, "We have a question for members who have built a supplier engagement program. One of our draft sustainability goals for the next two years is to “set sustainability goals with 20 of our top suppliers.” Before we finalize this language, we would like to learn what has been the most effective for others and why. For example, is robust (e.g., collaborative goal-setting) engagement with 20 suppliers the right course, or should we instead try to reach hundreds or thousands of suppliers with a lighter touch (e.g., survey)? How did you define your “key suppliers”? And once we establish the goal, what are best practices in building out the program? We are in the early stages of this journey, so any help would be much appreciated." Read More

One member writes, "We’re looking to introduce the concept of product sustainability/design for environment at our company innovation summit. I’m looking for recommendations from the GBEN community on speakers, training sessions, or workshops that would introduce the topic to engineers and scientists. As an FYI, the company develops and manufactures electronic equipment." Read More