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Future Business Success Requires Your Commitment to Workplace Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

The US’ leading civil rights organizations, representing women, people of color, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community, issued a call to action to Fortune 1000 executives and board members to remain steadfast in their commitments to workplace inclusion and the inherent risks in abandoning decades-long best practices. Signers on the letter include the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, NAACP, American Association of People with Disabilities, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, UnidosUS, National Women’s Law Center, National Urban League, the National Organization for Women, and other major civil rights organizations.…

LSB to Develop a First-of-its-Kind Code to Break Down Barriers to Finance for Ethnic Minority-Led Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

The Lending Standards Board (LSB) is developing a first-of-its-kind inclusive Code to drive essential improvements in access to finance for Ethnic Minority-Led Businesses (EMBs). The Code’s development follows the publication of the LSB’s 2023 report on the barriers to finance faced by EMBs, which also underscored the crucial role that financial institutions can play in unlocking these businesses’ untapped potential. As highlighted by the LSB’s 2023 report, ethnic minority entrepreneurs, including those from Black, Asian, and other minority groups, contribute an estimated £25 billion to the UK economy annually. Despite…

Cascale Issues Data-Driven Decarbonisation Roadmap, Rallies Industry on New Era of Business Leadership in Climate, Social Justice

Stuart Mitchell

Global nonprofit alliance Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, centered their recent Annual Meeting in Munich on a call to action: Attendees must become bold advocates for change within their organizations and throughout the industry. This was the first Annual Meeting since the organization rebranded in February 2024, and it marks a major milestone in the organization’s evolution. Themed “A New Era of Unified Impact,” the event united over 600 attendees from around the world, who heard from more than 80 global industry experts. The tone was set during the…

New research from CISL demonstrates the opportunities for scaling up nature-positive business and finance models to drive real action

Stuart Mitchell

Businesses and financial institutions can go beyond low return, piecemeal actions to systemic changes that incorporate nature and generate positive value for the environment and economy, two CISL reports released today show.  Scaling finance for nature: barrier breakdown and Better business: rethinking value for nature positive outcomes look at how scaling nature-positive-aligned business models must be adopted to halt and reverse nature loss and how private commercial capital can be used already today to reduce pressure on nature and enable these systemic changes.  Two years ago in Montreal, the world witnessed…

HSBC UK Launches Sustainability Farming Pathway For Businesses HSBC UK Launches Sustainability Farming Pathway For Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

HSBC UK has launched the HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway with sustainable farming charity LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) its first partner on the scheme. Farming businesses with the LEAF Marque certification, or those that complete a LEAF Sustainable Farming Review, will be eligible for discounted loan arrangement fees on term lending amounts from £25,001. Lending in scope includes flexible business loans, commercial mortgages and property development loans. Grace O’Dwyer, Interim Head of Agricultural Banking at HSBC UK says: “We are delighted to launch the HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway to help…