About "Sustainable business solutions"

PwC’s Sustainable Business Solutions helps clients create competitive advantage through sustainability. We tailor solutions to meet the unique needs of each client: building risk resilience into business models and value chains; improving efficiency and returns on sustainability investments; and capitalizing on innovation and growth opportunities.

Article archive

• 10Minutes

  10Minutes on environmental and social risk
  

  11/2/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  Environmental and social issues are posing greater commercial risks than ever. In this 10Minutes we'll explore what's changing and how companies can take a more forward-looking risk approach.

• Resilience: Sustaining the supply chain
  

  7/24/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  Companies need to protect the integrity of their supply chains to avoid damage to their reputations. In this report, we outline strategies for environmental and social issues in the supply chain. A resilient supply chain requires combining both ‘play not to lose’ and ‘play to win’ strategies.

• Sustainability valuation: An oxymoron?
  

  5/16/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  Considering both direct and indirect valuation methods helps quantify sustainability's value and the impact it makes for shareholders.

• Converging worlds: Five management principles from companies modernizing our vehicles, buildings and electric grids
  

  4/27/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  AutoDesk, Cisco Systems, Facebook, General Electric, IBM, Johnson Controls, Microsoft, General Motors, PG&E, Boeing, CBRE, FedEx, Ford, and Jones Lang LaSalle talk to PwC about their roles in accelerating efficiency in our energy, information, building and transportation systems. Stressing the importance of systems thinking, collaboration skills, and innovation capabilities needed for growth, these companies are capitalizing on both technology change and business model innovation to achieve breakthroughs in business and environmental performance.

• Do investors care about sustainability?
  

  3/9/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  A review of investor research reveal a trend that more investors are using corporate sustainability reporting to inform investment strategies. Sustainable investing outpaces the growth rate of conventional investment assets under professional management.

• Responsible investment: Creating value from environmental, social and governance issues - Private equity industry survey
  

  3/5/12 | Sustainable business solutions

  Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the private equity industry are increasingly in the spotlight. But many PE houses are struggling with how to demonstrate the value of their ESG activity.

• A framework for greenhouse gas reporting
  

  9/21/10 | Sustainable business solutions

  Regulatory and market pressures are forcing more companies to measure, disclose, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what should a “statement of greenhouse gas emissions” include? This publication offers some guidance.