Companies seeking to reduce their environmental footprint should focus on one element of their operations in particular—their global supply chains.
Big companies are working together to foster regenerative practices, revive high-value ecosystems, and increase the diversity of raw materials in their product portfolios.
Consumer and investor pressure is not going away. Companies must double down on sustainability as they emerge from the COVID-19 crisis.
Manufacturers can implement win-win actions in their production and logistics operations that benefit the environment and create financial value.
For now, corporate sustainability spending may be curtailed. But investors believe that in the long run, ESG will remain a powerful driver of portfolio performance.
As environmental, social, and governance issues become material to business with increasing speed, investors must equip themselves to react rapidly and flexibly.
Closing the wealth gap demands radical disruption in the way financial organizations and investors prioritize, target, and invest in Black consumers.
Championing inclusiveness at the highest levels of portfolio companies is the right moral choice—and it has practical benefits, too.
Today's ESG factors emerge out of nowhere and evolve at rapid speed. To survive and thrive, investors need a flexible and forward-looking approach.
BCG’s Center for Climate Action
We partner with clients across the public, private, and social sectors to align their strategy, operations, and stakeholder engagement with a low-carbon world. Our work is supported by BCG’s experience across all industries and capabilities and by our reach of brands.
Protecting our planet's most precious resource isn't just a matter of environmental stewardship. It's a substantial business problem.
As the global fire count hits a new record in 2020, at least 75% of wildfires are due to human activities. WWF & BCG call on governments, companies and consumers to implement critical climate change action.
By reducing abatement costs, small networks of emitters could help establish carbon capture as a mainstream technology in the effort to mitigate global warming.
COVID-19 recovery efforts can contribute to solving two crises at once—if leaders direct recovery-focused investments toward sustainable infrastructure, green jobs, and environmental resilience.
African governments must develop a response that is comprehensive, adaptive, and implemented effectively in order to take fast action in several areas.
An impact-driven investment model that can mitigate crises and strengthen the self-reliance of fragile communities while providing financial returns.
Applying a new approach to chronic child hunger in Tanzania yields powerful lessons for governments and organizations that are tackling other tough challenges.
COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on people who were already vulnerable: low income earners, racial minorities, and those without access to technology. We believe that public, private, and social sector leaders have a moral—and business—imperative to place inclusion at the heart of their response and recovery strategies.
BCG's Abhishek Gopalka takes the TED@BCG stage to share his insight on sparking people's competitive spirit to fix broken-public systems.
BCG’s Jean-Manuel Izaret offers a plan to combat the ever-increasing cost of medical care: a subscription-based payment model.
To meet the UN’s health-related Sustainable Development Goals, NGOs and low-income countries will have to do two to four times as much with every dollar that they currently spend.
Learn more about the advanced analytics techniques that allow us to better understand at-risk populations, predict patterns of disease, and optimize treatment decisions for HIV/AIDS.
The humble toilet is undergoing a transformation, unlocking a vast new opportunity—not just to capture value but also to change lives.
Empowering women who own businesses by removing barriers to equality of opportunity could fuel massive global economic growth.
Entrepreneurs who offer banking via mobile devices could finally put financial services within reach for 1.7 billion adults around the globe.
In Kenya, a smartphone app called iCow tracks the health of cattle for thousands of farmers, at times doubling productivity. In this TED talk, Sarah Cairns-Smith discusses how mobile apps are transforming local economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
Global biodiversity loss becomes an imperative for all of society. Find out about the immense value provided by our ecosystems, and what is needed to protect them.
Portuguese retailer Sonae piloted five initiatives that could ultimately slash the loss and waste of fruits and vegetables across its supply chain by 12,000 tons.
Each year, 1.6 billion tons of food goes to waste. This infographic shows what’s behind the problem—and how we can solve it.
Sustainable farming could be a huge opportunity for agricultural companies—but most haven’t embraced it.
