Fersk undersøkelse på bærekraft i norsk næringsliv: Rapporterer vi oss inn i en blindgate?​
Blog by S-HUB and Corporate Communications

Undersøkelsen «State of sustainabilit in Norway 2022» tar temperaturen på bærekraftarbeidet i norske selskaper. Den undersøker hva norske bedrifter tenker om, og hvordan de forholder seg til, bærekraft, bærekraftrapportering og reguleringer, og hvor de opplever mest press på bærekraftfronten.

Walking the talk on responsible business conduct
Blog by Randi Daltvei

Industry insights on how to practically tackle the obligations of Åpenhetsloven by Randi Daltvei - Head of Supply Management Sodexo AS.
Randi is an experienced professional with strong competence in sourcing, category management and supply chain, both in private and public sectors. She has particular expertise developing, implementing and managing both large and small projects, always with sustainable solutions in mind. Sodexo AS is a corporate member of Sustainability Hub Norway and Randi is an active supporter of the work of the S-CPO network. 

Sustainability Insights: Ita Demyttenaere
Blog by S-HUB

We’ve asked some of our speakers from across the world about sustainability reporting and its challenges, their best sustainability hacks and more. Read on for our fourth interview with Ita Demyttenaere.  
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Director in Sustainalytics’ Client Relations team, leading both the Benelux and Nordics Advisory teams that advise Sustainalytics clients their use of Sustainalytics’ products and on integrating ESG considerations into their investment processes. Since joining Sustainalytics in 2014, Ita has worked with several large financial institutions in both regions, across all business lines from asset managers to lending departments. 

Sustainability Insights: Petter Reistad
Blog by S-HUB

We’ve asked some of our speakers from across the world about sustainability reporting and its challenges, their best sustainability hacks and more. Read on for our third interview with Petter Reistad.  

​​A former professional skier, Petter joined the tech company Cognite shortly after its creation, managing client projects at the firm until it became Norway’s first unicorn last year. Now, he’s the CEO of the software company Celsia, a startup on a mission to bridge sustainability and finance by developing the world’s simplest sustainability scoring solution.

Why Decision Makers Connected to Tech & Innovation Play a Key Role in Sustainability Transformation
Blog by Marc Jourdan

Over the last couple of years, along with the advent of the Covid-19 Pandemic, we have noted an acceleration of crisis-level issues including climate change and resource depletion. We have seized this moment to take stock of the technological revolution we have been living through. Fuelled by great technology collaborations, our world has been re-shaped at an unprecedented rate. Digital solutions for medical care or transport have altered the way we live, work, and relate to one another, amplifying positive environmental and social impact across sectors and organisations.​

Sustainability insights: Ralph Thurm
​Blog by S-HUB

We’ve asked some of our speakers from across the world about sustainability reporting and its challenges, their best sustainability hacks and more. Read on for our second interview with Ralph Thurm, leading professional in sustainable innovation and strategy, operational sustainability, sustainability change management, sustainability reporting, transformation and ThriveAbility. 

Sustainability Insights: Lars Løddesøl
Blog by S-HUB

We’ve asked some of our speakers from across the world about sustainability reporting and its challenges, their best sustainability hacks and more. Read on for our first interview with Lars Løddesøl, Group CFO and Executive Vice President at Storebrand ASA.

State of Sustainability in Norway - 2021: The need to match ambition with real integration
Blog by Marc Jourdan

Within Norway, Sustainability Hub Norway (S-HUB Norway)’s 2021 State of Sustainability Survey confirms that the shifting regulatory landscape  and increasing corporate commitments to tackle decarbonisation leading up to COP26 has meant that the ambition to tackle sustainability continues to remain at the highest levels ever seen...

Klimanjaro: Fjordkraft’s journey to address supply chain emissions
Blog by Gisle Hauge

Like the African peak it is named after, "Klimanjaro" is an ambitious but fully feasible climate initiative. It requires companies wishing to do business with Fjordkraft to become climate neutral by 2019. It requires suppliers to track their own emissions through annual climate accounting, including the creation and implementation of a plan to maximise emissions reduction, as well as one to compensate for actual emissions incurred through the purchase of climate quotas. Although this is an ambitious initiative, we see its potential...

Sustainable Finance & Reporting Summit 2021
Kevin Reeder

More than 160 sustainability professionals and consultants joined executives and entrepreneurs last week for a digital sharing and discussion of the latest insights from the world of sustainable finance and reporting.  ​

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State of Sustainability in Norway 2020 
Kevin Reeder

More than 200 professionals from around the globe recently gathered online to explore the key findings from the State of Sustainability Norway 2020 report, which surveys how 176 leading Norwegian companies work with sustainability. ​

Bærekraftsrapportering på 1-2-3
Sustainability Hub Norway

En guide for å hjelpe selskaper med å komme i gang med bærekraftsrapportering uansett startpunkt. Guiden er utarbeidet av S-HUBs ekspertkomite som består av flere ledende norske selskaper. 

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Sustainability Reporting 2020 ​
Kevin Reeder

More than 150 professionals from around the globe recently
gathered online to hear the latest on how to navigate the
​sustainability reporting landscape.

​A Culture of Sustainability
Kevin Reeder

Are organisational culture and sustainability interrelated? How
do you align your culture with your sustainability strategy? The
latest Sustainability Conversations seminar explored these
questions.

A Sustainable Food Industry 
Kevin Reeder

It’s no easy task to assess how sustainable the global food industry is. So let’s start with a snapshot of how Norway is tackling industry issues, such as climate impact, labeling and food waste...

Sustainability Reporting Seminar 2019
Sustainability Hub 

Access presentations and photos from the seminar. 

Progress, But Still a Long Way to Go: Sustainability Reporting in Norway 2019
Kevin Reeder

Sustainability reporting and ESG disclosures are evolving at an accelerating pace around the globe, and investors are increasingly using this information to inform their decisions. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations...

How to Promote Your Sustainability Story on Social Media as a B2B Company
Sustainable Brands 

Social media thrives on compelling storytelling, and chances are that your sustainability efforts have the capacity to pull on your audience’s heartstrings better than another post promoting your product or service...

Un-sustainability - Design is the problem...or at least 80% of it.
Eline Strøm-Gundersen

Design has been and still is, a part of the problem when it comes to the state of our planet and lack of sustainability in business. Do you know that the choices made during the design phase of a product or service account for 80% of the sustainable impact of the solution during the solutions life cycle?

Sustainability Strategy Summit 2019: Event Summary
Sustainability Hub 

While sustainability remains a hot topic in business in Norway and abroad, it is often reduced to a communication effort or the marketing of a new product line. Although many companies are making valiant efforts in integrating sustainability into their strategy, accusations of greenwashing abound, and satisfying explanations of how companies can become sustainable while remaining profitable remain elusive...

Sustainable + purposeful = profitable…?
Kevin Reeder

If you want to be a future-fit organization or company, these should be burning questions. They certainly are for the 70 executives, entrepreneurs, consultants and academics from leading private sector and civil society players who recently...

Three Questions Shaping the Future of Business
Sustainable Brands 

We’re barely one month into 2019, but it certainly feels like more than that. Between the U.S. government shutdown, a viral and controversial new Gillette ad inviting men to work on toxic masculinity, the EU passing a ban on a range of single-use plastics, the mind-blowing and thought-provoking glimpses of the future at the annual Consumer Electronics Show...

Boards Fit for the Future
Kevin Reeder

How can company boards tip the corporate scales towards equitable, sustainable and inclusive leadership? The recent FutureBoards Corporate Governance Summit explored some of the answers...

Your Stakeholders Are Listening, So What Are You Saying? 
Mark Roberts for Sustainable Brands

Understanding who your business affects and how they affect your business is key to long-term success. If you only focus on customers, you are falling way short. To truly take your business from local to national and on to global levels, you have to consider all the ways your company interacts with the world around it and, most importantly, what stories you are telling...

​Active Investment Strategies to Capitalize on Sustainability Opportunities 
Jon Ormaechea, Julian Seelan, and Charles R Smith

The investing landscape is evolving, and asset managers must adapt their practices in response to a general trend toward passive management...

World Oceans Month: an invitation for businesses to "dive in" 
Benedicte Meydel

June is World Oceans Month, marked for spreading awareness of the earth’s oceans, coasts and marine life. It is specifically highlighted on June 8, entitled World Oceans Day. With all the attention marine littering has received over the past few years, corporate life needs to step up. This month provides them with the perfect occasion...

Sustainable Innovation and Impact
Cary Krosinsky & Todd Cort

These are unprecedented times.While global economic growth and average lifestyles are in many ways at all-time highs, this has come with costs such as degraded environmental systems which otherwise support economies, societies and cultures...

Bærekraftkapitalistene på fremmarsj
​Anders Fagernæs

Miljøhippiene solgte dommedag og fikk betalt i forbud og avgifter. Nå, mer enn 30 år etter Brundtland-kommisjonen, går kapitalistene i spissen for å redde kloden. Bør kapitalistene få gulrøtter for innsatsen? Eller må de piskes til lydighet og betale når de ødelegger livsgrunnlaget vårt?...

Study: Purpose Now Rivals Cost, Quality for Attracting, Retaining, Engaging Consumers
Sustainable Brands 

Purpose-driven brands can build stronger emotional connections with consumers that go far beyond a transactional relationship, according to the newly released 2018 Cone/Porter Novelli Purpose Study. Nearly eight...

How to ensure employee engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility
Marie Jonette ​Rustad​ & Line Skar

There is an emerging trend that employees seem to want more from a job than only performing their duties. Research shows that a good CSR strategy can influence both how current and future employees look at the firm...

Summary: Seminar on Sustainability Reporting & SDG Impact Measurement
Lauren Guido 

25 April, 2018 Sustainability Hub Norway, together with Scatec Solar, Statkraft, and Statoil, hosted its annual sustainability reporting event in collaboration with the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Dutch Embassy. It was a particularly monumental day...

From fashionistas to eco-vistas – changing an industry
Kevin Reeder

You might think fashion will be among the last industries to embrace environmental awareness and sustainable business. Global clothing retailer H&M is on a mission to change that...

The ultimate game changer in business
​Benedicte Meydel

The Financial Times published an article on Al Gore, stating that “sustainability is history’s biggest investment opportunity”. Compared to traditional ways of doing business, that’s quite an unusual – but much needed - statement...

Bærekraft er på bedrifters agenda, men driftes med få ressurser
Sustainability Hub Norway 

25 April 2018, Oslo - For første gang er det gjennomført en kartlegging om hvordan de største bedriftene i Norge jobber med bærekraft. Studien er basert på masteroppgaven State of Sustainability Norway 2017 av Pia Lefevre, skrevet på NTNU i samarbeid med Sustainability Hub Norway (S-HUB). I dag ble studien lansert på S-HUB sitt årlige arrangement om bærekraftsrapportering...

S-HUB 2017 Annual Report 
Sustainability Hub Norway ​

S-HUB was launched in March 2017, this year we focused on understanding sustainability in Norway, building the community and sharing knowledge. Our report encompasses what we accomplished during our first year, and what we are looking forward to throughout 2018...

New Evidence Suggests That Sustainability Standards Drive Action
​Sustainable Brands

New evidence suggests that sustainability standards are drivers of the adoption and improvement of corporate practices. Its welcome news following CDP’s recent examination of the gap between corporate intentions and action on tackling climate-related risks...

S-HUB member's 2017 Sustainability Reports
Sustainability Hub 

Key insights on what our members have accomplished in 2017 in terms of sustainability. Additionally, easily access all our member's sustainability reports...

Sustainable Business Essentials: Involve your Customers
Benedicte Meydel​

Here’s a hot tip for companies wanting to succeed with sustainable solutions: Get into the habit of involving your customers more. Their knowledge and input may give you just what you need – or need to avoid...

La oss gjøre bærekraftmålene til mer enn pynt!
Hanne Thornam

Mange selskaper har nå knyttet seg til bærekraftmål i sine bærekraftrapporter. Spørsmålet er om dette er mer enn såkalt «SDG washing», eller pynt? og hvordan bærekraftmålene kan gi reell retning for strategi og tiltak...

Bærekraft på moten-ren risikosport!
Stine Lise Hattestad Bratsberg

Å pynte årsrapporten med FNs bærekraftsmål er i ferd med å bli en trend, slik risikosport har verden ikke råd til! Mange ledere har fått øynene opp for viktigheten av å jobbe med bærekraft som en integrert del av forretningen...

Grønne obligasjonslån gir bedre avkastning
Asbjørn Ness

De siste månedene har det bygget seg opp en grønn lånebølge på Oslo Børs. 28. februar var 60 sentrale finanspersoner samlet på nettopp børsen for å gi bølgen ytterligere kraft. Der fikk de blant annet vite at Storebrands grønne...

Sustainable Revenues: 81% of Chr. Hansen's Products Support SDGs
​Sustainable Brands 

As allegedly the first company ever, Chr. Hansen -- a Danish bioscience giant that produces natural ingredients for the food, beverage, dietary supplements and agricultural industry -- has conducted an extensive analysis...

Waste can turn into real assets:
​Here's why ​
Benedicte Meydel

Tech company Dell makes a brilliant example. They have launched a new jewelry line with recycled gold from their e-waste product components. After finding out only 12,5 % of the worldwide 20 – 50 tons of e-waste...

Natural Capital -
​Reporting & Improving Part 4
​Honza Kerver

Previous articles explored the history of human impact on the environment, and the ecosystem services that are provided to us for free. They also showed that financial markets are not well equipped to value ecosystem services...

Natural Capital - Ecosystem Services Part 3
Honza Kerver

The natural capital that our society is based on provides uncountable services that we benefit from every single day. Some of these are direct and easily recognizable, some are indirect and we only notice them when they..

Natural Capital - Human Impact Part 2 
​Honza Kerver

Throughout time, humanity has affected the natural world. Though partly a symbiotic relationship, it is obvious that as early humans (be it Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Erectus or Homo Sapiens) spread...

Natural Capital - An Introduction 
​Honza Kerver ​

Our economic system is focused on financial transactions and economic growth, and has been for a long time. The main economic indicator that governments measure success by, GDP, should always go up...

Using the Internet Sustainably
​Lauren Guido

One data center can use more than the amount of energy it takes to power a medium sized town. About 88% to 94% of electricity is used to just keep these centers going. In other words, only about 6% of the energy consumed...

Carlsberg Commits to Decarbonise Its Breweries by 2030
Sustainable Brands

Carlsberg Group has pledged to eliminate carbon emissions and halve water usage at its breweries worldwide by 2030, as part of a new sustainability drive, launched in June 2017. The beer maker also intends to switch to 100...

EAT Food Forum is much more than creating a better food system
Lauren Guido

During EAT Stockholm Food Forum fourth annual event, 500 of the brightest minds were brought together from science, politics, business, and civil society to exchange ideas for one goal. How can global leaders shift food...

Sustainability every damn day 
​Eleni Simeou

The world population is now estimated to have reached nearly 7.6 billion. What do almost all of these individuals use every single day whether they come from a big city or from a tiny village? Whether they are wealthy or living in poverty...

Growleriet - Sustainable in its DNA
​Lauren Guido

Growlers are the sustainable beer option that is saving the planet from cans and bottles by offering reusable bottles. Sustainability Hub sat down with co-founder Lachlan McLeod to learn more about the concept...

Starmus Calls for Sustainability
​Sunniva Bratt Slette

The Starmus Festival recently turned the tech city of Trondheim upside down. A symposium of science, art and music addressed peoples’ curiosity of life and the universe. Key takeaways? In the short term...

Nordic Council Environment Prize Nominates Pioneering Waste-Free Solutions
​Sustainable Brands

The Nordic region continues to blaze trails on the zero-waste front, as innovators from across the region vie for the Nordic Council Environment Prize and a chance to bring their projects and initiatives to a global audience...

​Tine winner of Sustainable Brands Index Awards 2017
​​Pia Lefevre

Tine is pushing for sustainability and the consumer has made a note of it. Tine won Sustainable Brands Index Award 2017 which relies on the rating of 1,000 Norwegian consumers. Sustainability Hub met up with Bjørn Malm...

Sustainability Reporting ​
​Pia Lefevre

Sustainability Hub co-hosted with Scatec Solar, Storebrand, Statkraft and Aker Biomarine a fully-booked breakfast seminar about sustainability reporting. The event presented national and international trends within sustainability...

Co-designing the Future at Katapult Future Fest
​Lauren Guido

Imagine a world where food is 3D printed, the Earth’s temperature no longer increases, internet is three-dimensional and layered on top of reality, no visas or passports are required, and every human has his/her genome sequenced...

Storebrand, 2nd Most Sustainable Business in the World
​​Pia Lefevre

In the past year, Storebrand has jumped from 24th place to an amazing 2nd on Corporate Knights List of Most Sustainable Corporations. Sustainability Hub reached out to Harald Martens Holm, communication manager...

Introduction Letter from S-HUB Founder
Andreas Friis

Insights into an ambitious journey - creating the new leading community and platform for sustainable business and leadership in Norway...