It is no longer enough for companies to focus on creating profit alone. Investors, regulators, and wider society are demanding that companies take an active role in addressing environmental and social issues alongside financial returns. Financial flows into environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds more than doubled between 2020 and 2021 and, on average, more than one third of consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable products or services.

Supply chain optimisation is key to a business’s success and increasingly, its reputation. As the number of consumers and businesses worldwide grow exponentially, supply chains are becoming more obscure and complex. Falling outside of direct operations, they often extend to multiple sectors, countries, and continents, and consist of numerous interdependencies.

As an investor, does your strategy support your mission and values? How do you evaluate and select investing opportunities which ensure your impact supports profit? Which is the most suitable framework for evaluating impact opportunities you should use?

More than 100 years prior, some clever scientists identified a problematic issue that we are still currently grappling with: climate change. According to these scientists, if you put too much of a certain type of gas in a closed system, such as earth, it could radically alter the opacity of the atmosphere to infrared light, trapping it. Ever so slowly, bit by bit, the closed system will warm up. This would then result in multitudes of knock-on effects, from affected rainfall patterns, increasing ocean temperatures, to changes in albedo due to icecaps melting.

According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), there are an estimated 33 million smallholder farmers in Africa, contributing up to 70 percent of the food supply on the continent. However, shrinking agricultural yields as a result of climate change combined with rising populations is creating food shortages in Africa.

Stacey Webb, Executive Director and passionate scientist and mother of two, shares her 5 tips on how she embraces zero-waste living in her own home.