Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Human rights
• Employee rights
• Environmental protection
• Supplier relations
• Community involvement
• Stakeholder rights
• Monitoring and assessing CSR performance

Environmental Achievements

• Numerous case studies showcasing environmental improvements through eco-efficiency and lifecycle management of products (e.g., DuPont's Flint Renewal program, General Motors' work with suppliers on environmental initiatives, Novartis' farmer support and crop protection in the Dominican Republic).

Social Achievements

• Development of various programs to improve community relations and support (e.g., Rio Tinto's community training in Indonesia, Unilever's Galgamuwa Skills Development Project in Sri Lanka, Unocal's support for Los Angeles youth, WMC Limited's community development work in the Philippines).
• Initiatives to improve employee well-being and retention (e.g., Novo Nordisk's corporate policy supporting employees with health issues, Deloitte & Touche's Women's Initiative).

Governance Achievements

• Emphasis on transparency, stakeholder consultation, and the development of codes of conduct.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Defining the boundaries between the social responsibilities of government and business.
• Monitoring, measuring, and reporting on CSR performance.
• Lack of a universally accepted definition of CSR.
• Balancing the needs of various stakeholder groups.
• Addressing concerns about the lack of clear business benefits from CSR initiatives.
• Overcoming skepticism and suspicion from stakeholders, particularly in developing countries.

Mitigation Strategies

• Promoting continuous dialogue with stakeholders.
• Developing management tools for measuring, monitoring, and reporting progress in CSR.
• Sharing best practices among members and other interested parties.
• Working with other organizations to develop metrics and reporting standards for sustainable development.
• Encouraging companies to articulate their core values and produce their own codes of conduct.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Emphasis on influencing suppliers to adopt responsible practices.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Various codes of practice from different organizations (e.g., Caux Roundtable Principles, UN Global Compact)

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Achievements

• Not disclosed

Social Achievements

• Not disclosed

Governance Achievements

• Not disclosed

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Lack of standardized and widely adopted sustainability indicators, difficulty in measuring supply chain and product lifecycle impacts, limited data availability for higher-level indicators, challenges in defining and measuring environmental impacts, lack of collaboration with external entities for higher-level indicators.

Mitigation Strategies

• Development of the Lowell Center indicator hierarchy to organize and evaluate sustainability indicators, promoting the use of life-cycle assessment, encouraging collaboration with communities and governments to develop higher-level indicators.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

• Not disclosed

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Potential negative impacts of Brexit on growth and job creation
• Potential negative impacts on financial services, foreign direct investment, and London property markets
• Uncertainty surrounding Brexit's impact on trade and manufacturing

Mitigation Strategies

• Negotiating favorable trade agreements
• Implementing a skills-based migration policy
• Reducing regulations where possible
• Utilizing savings from reduced EU contributions to compensate affected sectors

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Beauty
• Community
• Stewardship
• Regeneration
• Nature
• Health and Well-being

Environmental Achievements

• Not disclosed

Social Achievements

• Not disclosed

Governance Achievements

• Not disclosed

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Poor-quality design and build of homes and places.
• Widespread opposition to new developments.
• Stagnation in the planning process.
• Rise of the car and its impact on settlement patterns.
• Radical upheaval in methods of construction.
• Untended and unmaintained neighbourhoods.
• Lack of citizen involvement in planning decisions.
• Decline of left-behind places.
• Disaggregation of tasks in planning and development.
• Inadequate funding for planning teams.
• Poor procurement practices.

Mitigation Strategies

• Propose a new development and planning framework that prioritizes beauty, refuses ugliness, and promotes stewardship.
• Advocate for statutory changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
• Encourage citizen involvement in planning decisions from the outset.
• Promote a more strategic and less reactive approach to local plans.
• Develop provably popular form-based codes and pattern books.
• Create a recognized ‘stewardship kitemark’ and associated training.
• Provide access to a patient capital fund for schemes meeting the ‘stewardship kitemark’.
• Create a level tax playing field between long-term and short-term approaches to development.
• Appoint a Minister for Place and a Chief Placemaker in all local authorities.
• Regenerate ‘left-behind’ places through place-led initiatives.
• Align tax for existing and new places.
• Encourage the recycling of buildings.
• Encourage resilient high streets.
• Banish ‘boxland’ and promote ‘gentle density’ neighbourhoods.
• Create healthy streets for people and clean urban air.
• Plant two million new street trees and urban orchards.
• Promote planning excellence and a common understanding of place.
• Support design review.
• Streamline planning and shift resources from development control to strategic planning.
• Limit the physical length of planning applications.
• Support centers of excellence.
• Count happiness and popularity in performance indicators.
• Value design as well as price in procurement processes.
• Review Homes England’s remit, targets, and investment timeframes.
• Encourage Homes England to take a clearer master developer role.
• Re-discover civic pride in architecture.
• Monitor the implementation of the report.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Null

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

• Not disclosed

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Climate Action
• Nature Conservation
• Cultural Heritage Preservation
• Education
• Community Engagement
• Sustainable Tourism
• Research

Environmental Achievements

• Not disclosed

Social Achievements

• Developed resources to help GLAM institutions mainstream SDGs into their operations.
• Supported learning opportunities related to SDGs.
• Enabled cultural participation for all.
• Promoted sustainable tourism.
• Enabled research in support of SDGs.
• Provided guidance on internal leadership and operations to support SDGs.
• Directed external leadership and partnerships towards SDGs.

Governance Achievements

• Not disclosed

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Cherry-picking of SDGs without considering interconnectedness.
• Getting stuck in definitions instead of focusing on action.
• Business-as-usual approaches instead of transformative change.
• Greenwashing/SDG-washing.
• One-dimensionality in addressing sustainability challenges.
• Justifying negative impacts against positive contributions.
• Unclear terminology.
• Competitive use of sustainability.
• Viewing SDGs as an add-on activity.

Mitigation Strategies

• Provides a results framework using SDGs and targets to guide action.
• Offers Sustainability Statements to help set priorities, integrate SDGs, and report progress.
• Highlights the importance of considering people, planet, and prosperity together.
• Emphasizes transparency and accountability.
• Encourages collaboration and partnership.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Null

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• All 17 SDGs

The guide provides a framework for GLAM institutions to align their activities with all 17 SDGs.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

• Not disclosed