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One member asks, "What are the best food and beverage sustainability resources that help to define current trends in the marketplace and showcase best in class sustainability practices?" Read More

One member asks, "Voluntary reporting frameworks are converging around dual materiality, as are emerging mandatory reporting regulations. Human rights and environmental due diligence similarly require annual processes to assess salient outward risks, and the classical enterprise risk management (ERM) requires annually assessing inwards risk. These processes can be time and data intensive. In my experience, they are also usually performed separately – partially because of how they naturally evolved, partially because of which department is responsible, and partially because it’s hard to focus on both directions of materiality at the same time and get a good outcome for multiple purposes. Has anyone developed a process or come across any easy tools, templates or tech solutions to help streamline and align the annual (sustainability) materiality, human rights risk assessments, and enterprise risk management processes? I would also be glad to speak with anyone willing to share their experience." Read More

It's an evergreen topic that is always nice to update as one member writes, "Which consultant are companies using to produce their annual sustainability reports? We are looking for a vendor that has expertise and capabilities in sustainability reporting guidance frameworks, writing, design and website development." Read More

One member asks, "Does anyone have recommendations on people/firms to conduct ESG Board training?" Read More

One member asks, "Which consultants help companies complete CDP? We are looking for vendors that are hands on to do the writing, project manage and have knowledge of the survey so they can do it well/advise vs consultants that only advise on how to increase scores, etc." Read More

One member asked about biodiversity consultants or resources to recommend, "We are looking for external guidance on a biodiversity roadmap and metrics setting." Another member asked, "What types of collaborations members are involved in that focus on biodiversity, similar to the SBT for nature corporate engagement program?" Read More

One member asks, "I’m looking for a list of advisors in the renewable electricity/power purchase agreement space. I’m curious to know what advisors others are currently using or have used in the past to help them find and negotiate PPAs." Read More

One member asks, "who have you used as consultants for your carbon reduction ambitions in terms of 1) quantifying all three SBTi targets; 2) identifying roadmaps to reduction; and 3) project management and initiation support of partnerships to achieve all three Scopes." Read More

One member asks, "if members have ESG Steering Committees. Where do they sit organizationally/ level of members/ Is it cross-functional? What are the responsibilities of the committee?" Read More

One member asks, "Our team wants to benchmark incentives for farmers who integrate regenerative and sustainable practices into their growing practices. My previous employer used to pay $.25 more per bushel weight, but we thought we’d benchmark a few other organizations. Would you mind asking GBEN if they are doing this and, if so, how they implemented it?” Read More