The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) has released the first draft version of its framework, marking an important milestone in efforts to improve how businesses and financial institutions understand and report impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities related to people.
A new package of $67m has been approved by the Global Environment Facility to help nations take frontline action on biodiversity loss, pollution and a rapidly warming planet. With UNDP’s support, the funding will be channelled to nine projects targeting some of the world’s most fragile ecosystems and climate-vulnerable communities in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa.
House of Hackney has launched a debt crowdfunding campaign with B-Corp bank, Triodos, and is issuing a bond with the aim of buying out its private equity partners to accelerate its mission “to leave our planet better than we found it”.
People keep getting packaged up by business. Be it in gender pay gap reporting, racial equity programmes, menopause initiatives or the muddle of staff surveys. But shouldn’t the conversation about people be about the sweet spot where business looks after its people and people serve their employers?