Corporate Sustainability in Context

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Blog Contributor: Scarlet McBarnet


Scarlet is Client Director at Context Europe. She is an experienced account manager and expert writer, helping clients understand stakeholder expectations and navigate the complexities of CS strategy, communications and reporting.

Articles written by Scarlet


Listwatch: 2013 Sustainability Leaders

The results of the annual Sustainability Leaders survey from Globescan and SustainAbility are out. They asked 1,170 qualified sustainability experts, unprompted,  which companies they think are leaders in integrating sustainability into their business strategy. Congratulations to  Context clients, Unilever (taking the top spot for the third year in a row) and Interface who made the top 10: [...]

Centrica publishes CR Review

  Context client Centrica’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Performance Review sets out how the company is balancing what it coins the ‘energy trilemma’- the need to provide a secure supply of energy at affordable cost while moving towards a low carbon society. Highlights include increased customer satisfaction and clearer billing, insulation for around 670,000 homes – saving [...]

ListWatch: Greenpeace Cool IT

Greenpeace has published its sixth annual Cool IT Leaderboard. Congratulations to Context clients, Cisco (jointly topping the list with Google), HP and Vodafone who made the top 10.

Big Tick for Jaguar Land Rover

Congratulations to Context client Jaguar Land Rover for achieving the highest rating in Business in the Community’s Big Tick awards. The platinum rating, new this year, recognises companies that demonstrate long-term thinking about mega trends such as population growth and resource scarcity, and the contribution their business can make to sustainable economies. Jaguar Land Rover’s latest sustainability [...]

ListWatch: 100 Best Corporate Citizens

Corporate Responsibility Magazine have published their list of the top 100 corporate citizens of 2013. Congratulations to all Context clients in the list: Cisco Systems Fedex Hasbro Hewlett-Packard International Paper Life Technologies Lockheed Martin McGraw-Hill Motorola Solutions Pepsico

ListWatch – Sustainability wishlist for the ICT industry

Dunstan Hope at BSR considers the big picture for the ICT industry, and lists five key priorities for ICT companies to focus on.

ListWatch: World’s Most Ethical Companies 2013

Ethisphere have announced their list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies of 2013 – 145 in total. Congratulations to our clients who made the list.

ListWatch – Women in sustainability

To celebrate International Women’s Day, The Guardian Sustainable Business website has put together a Twitter list of women in sustainability:

ListWatch – Social Media Sustainability Index 2012

The SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index 2012 shows how 100 major companies are using social media to communicate sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

ListWatch – Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business

Seven habits of this, 10 hints on that… Social media has killed the long-form and lists are the new-lit. Welcome to ListWatch, where we monitor sustainability lists world-wide. You saw it second here. Here’s just a snippet of Trust America’s top 100 thought leaders in trustworthy business behavior for 2013… 1. Patricia Aburdene - patriciaaburdene.com @paburdene [...]