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Following a period of sustained growth, GoodCorporation is appointing three non-executive directors to its board. Vicky Pryce, Catherine Roche and Mei Li Powell join the board in July, bringing a wealth of business development, finance and strategy experience to support GoodCorporation through its next phase. Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and board member at…
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With environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continuing to dominate the agenda, the 2022 Chatham House Responsible Business Conference explored how ESG matters will be adopted into meaningful and normalised decision making. GoodCorporation director Gareth Thomas joined the panel that focussed on ESG and sustainable finance. This session examined the role of regulators, corporates and…
Whistleblowing. Speak-up. Ethics concerns. Whatever you call it, encouraging employees and other stakeholders to report concerns about misconduct and inappropriate behaviour is increasingly regarded as an essential component of effective risk management. A well-trusted and successfully embedded speak-up system can be one of the most efficient means of identifying risks and rectifying them before they…
The second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report[1], published last week, focuses on the consequences of climate change. In particular, its impact on ecosystems and human societies, as well as on the means used so far to adapt to these changes. The first part of the report, published in August…
GoodCorporation was invited by EQS Group to lead a webinar on Embedding effective speak-up, part of their “It’s time to speak-up” series. GoodCorporation director, Debbie Ramsay, and senior consultant, Lisa Randles, led the discussion which explored how to create an ethical corporate culture that promotes effective speak-up. Based on over 20 years of working with…
Forewarned is forearmed, or so the saying goes, but ask any whistleblower if they were given a hero’s welcome as they raised the alarm and you’d think the opposite were true. Many whistleblowers, Michael Woodford and Frances Haugen included, face actual or prospective persecution for raising concerns. Yet without these important revelations, many corruption scandals,…
Between 2010 and 2020, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre documented over 500 allegations of human rights abuses related to renewable energy projects, particularly in Latin America. These allegations included murders, threats, land-grabs, poor working conditions and impacts on the livelihoods of local communities. Such a catalogue clearly shows that the production of so-called…
End deforestation, curb methane emissions, cut fossil fuel funding; COP26 was long on pledges, but short on any mechanisms for delivery. So although the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C remains intact (just), both scientists and climate change activists have been critical of the lack of specific actions to ensure the target is actually…
On October 8, less than a month before the opening of COP26 (Conference of the Parties on Climate Change) in Glasgow, the United Nations Human Rights Council acknowledged the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The text, proposed by Costa Rica, Morocco, the Maldives, Slovenia and Switzerland, was adopted by 43…
When it comes to corporate culture do managers look through rose-tinted glasses? According to GoodCorporation’s latest UK survey of workforce perceptions of organisational culture, senior managers and above are far more likely to feel their organisation has an ethical corporate culture than their non-managerial counterparts. While 72 per cent of senior managers consider their organisation…
