How to Revive Sustainability Amid the Pursuit of Long Term Value and Resilience
- Why ESG is dead — and why that’s actually good news for boards serious about long-term value
- Why sustainability, reframed as an anti-fragile strategy, makes organisations stronger from disruption — not just resilient to it
- Why Trump’s retreat from ESG is a symptom, not a cause — and why Australia’s political trajectory points the other way
- How Tesla becoming worth more than the next 35 car manufacturers combined illustrates what anti-fragile sustainability actually looks like in practice
- Three concrete moves boards can take right now: renovating business models, embedding geopolitics in materiality, and broadening scenario planning
The new ESG: Energy, Security, Geopolitics pt.1
- Why the global economy’s old assumptions have broken — and why ESG is being reincarnated in a new form
- How chokepoints, war-risk premia, and supply-chain coercion are turning energy and food security into board-level issues
- Why the damage is now physical, not financial, as infrastructure, routes, and critical inputs stay exposed for years
- Why boards that still rely on a rules-based-order mindset have not yet adjusted to the new state-led, weaponised economy
The new ESG: Energy, Security, Geopolitics pt.2
- Why the world no longer runs on prices alone — and what it means when politics starts setting the terms of business
- How energy security is pushing decarbonisation forward, even as governments reach for gas in the short term
- Why clean energy is creating a new form of dependence, with China controlling the processing chokepoints the transition now relies on
- Why boards must rethink strategy for a world where the state is now shareholder, customer, regulator, and market maker all at once
The First Mandatory Climate Reports Are In. Some Are Embarrassing.
- Why most mandatory climate disclosures satisfy lawyers but miss the point entirely
- The Why AASB S2 isn’t asking for compliance — it’s asking boards to prove they understand their own risk exposure
- How Santos buries its biggest risk in volume while Pepper Money quantifies climate exposure in dollars
- Greenhushing is replacing strategy: boards hiding their best thinking to manage personal liability, not long-term risk
The Anti-fragile Board
- Why double materiality may be the most underused strategic tool boards already commission each year
- How a disclosure exercise can reveal compounding shocks, geopolitical fragility, and hidden business-model risk
- Why most boards are sitting on a strategic goldmine in their materiality data — and not using it
- Why boards that treat double materiality as strategy can turn a compliance exercise into an anti-fragile advantage
The Reporting Platform Question
- Why reporting platforms like Workiva, Tangelo and CtrlPrint promise an easier process — and where the real trade-offs hide
- Why the data integration promise comes with a first-cycle setup cost most teams badly underestimate — and how to plan for it
- How a well-designed template pays off year after year, and why a designer is still essential to get there
- Why the technology is rarely the bottleneck — and what is
What Comes after 100%?
- Why buying “100% renewable energy” no longer signals corporate leadership
- How the GHG Protocol’s biggest update in a decade will make ‘I buy 100% renewable’ legally and reputationally risky to say
- How companies can claim “100% renewable” while still running on fossil fuels
- Why Australia’s LGC certificates expire in 2030 — and why what replaces them changes everything about how renewable claims must be substantiated
- What Google and Microsoft are already doing that sets the standard your board will eventually have to meet
Rest Assured: Preparing for Sustainability Assurance
- Why sustainability assurance will be the biggest cost increase from mandatory climate reporting
- Why assurance is mandatory from day one under AASB S2 — and why the distinction between limited and reasonable assurance is the number that matters most to your budget
- Why a completeness failure is really a materiality failure — and how auditors will run their own materiality test if yours can’t be explained
- How to build an evidence trail that satisfies assurance requirements
- Four practical steps to prepare your organisation for assurance season
Issue 7 • March 2025
- Sustinability crossroads: How geopolitics, climate tech and reporting mandates are reshaping corporate risk
- Pollution and the circular economy
- What does Trump’s return mean for sustainability?
- Emerging Solutions from the Smart Cities Expo World Congress 2024
- Regulatory updates
Issue 6 • February 2025 • North America special edition
- Getting it right on value chain impacts
- How to understand the difference between material matters and material information
- Material information in sustainability vs financial statements
- Mandatory sustainability reporting
Issue 5 • September 2024
- Latest climate reporting standards update
- Finding your reporting suite sweet spot
- Will AI replace our jobs?
- Harnessing data for a nature-positive future
- Mandatory sustainability reporting: what you need to know
Issue 4 • March 2024
- COP28: An insider’s view and outcomes for business in 2024
- The Death of ESG?
- Emerging trends in climate litigation
- The true heroes in corporate sustainability
- Updates on the latest reporting standards
Issue 3 • October 2023
- Introducing a visionary concept into corporate strategy and reporting (IFRS S1 and IFRS S2)
- Mandatory climate reporting coming to Australia
- Paving the path to a circular economy
- TNFD LEAP Framework
- ACCC investigating a number of businesses for potential ‘greenwashing’
- Gilbert + Tobin’s ESG, Sport and Human Rights Forum
Issue 2 • May 2023
- Applying resilience science to business
- 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy
- Sustainability reporting trends for 2023
- ASIC’s proceedings against Star an important reminder
- European Commission proposes a Green Claims Directive
Issue 1 • December 2022
- Decarbonisation developments in Australia & overseas
- Four ways to ensure credible corporate net zero targets
- Climate Risk Disclosure developments in Australia & overseas
- Need to do more on climate risk? Here’s where to start.