People & Culture

Westcon-Comstor names first Chief Sustainability Officer amid record growth

Scope 3 emissions went up 17.4% as the company posted record half-year results.

Melodie Michel

01 November 2023

People & Culture

Investment manager M&G names first Chief Sustainability Officer

Kathy Ryan joins a growing sustainability team.

Melodie Michel

26 October 2023

CSO

Formula E’s sustainability boss sees it as a sandbox for innovation

Jaguar increased battery life in its cars after testing new software at a Formula E championship.

Melodie Michel

26 October 2023

People & Culture

APAC firms lead the way with Chief Sustainability Officer appointments

Among recent high-profile Chief Sustainability Officer appointments in the region, Singaporean bank OCBC named Mike Ng its first group CSO last July.

Melodie Michel

25 October 2023

News and Interviews

CPP Investments' Chief Sustainability Officer sees "green premium" emerging in real estate

Richard Manley says companies “favouring low-carbon energy-efficient buildings... [we are] seeing the first clear signals of climate-related risk translating into asset prices in the real estate sector."

Edward Targett

23 October 2023

People & Culture

SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid on carbon accounting, hyperscaler transparency, and a “war” on how companies make decisions

The German software heavyweight is putting sustainability at the heart of both its own business and its value proposition for customers. Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid says the company needs to be an industry role model if it wants to “gain the credibility to act as an enabler”.

Edward Targett

17 October 2023

People & Culture

Caterpillar appoints its third Chief Sustainability Officer in two years

"Our Scope 3 emissions are estimated to be more than 95% of the company’s total Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions inventory."

Edward Targett

16 October 2023

Airbus

Airbus appoints its first Chief Sustainability Officer

The world's largest plane maker has validated near-term SBTi targets, but faces a colossal uphill battle to decarbonise aviation.

Edward Targett

13 October 2023

People & Culture

Vicky Bullivant, NTT Ltd., on Greenpeace, dirty grids and SBTi validation

"We’re on that journey… it is difficult,”

Edward Targett

11 October 2023

People & Culture

BT Global Head of Sustainability Sarwar Khan: ‘I hope my job doesn’t exist in 10 years’

BT plans to provide customers with low-carbon connectivity, but for Khan, sustainability is also about human connection.

Melodie Michel

10 October 2023