Dealing with pressure: How Kärcher turns compliance into operational strength

The energy trilemma: why it pays to get the balance right

September 2, 2025 • by Ann-Christin Andersen , Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 9 min read

Dealing with the conflicting demands of price, sustainability, and security of energy supplies is challenging, but it’s a useful way to assess your firm’s resilience and agility....

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The new limits of growth

September 1, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 9 min read

In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...

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Soft power, hard results: Making the case for active ownership

September 1, 2025 • by Yuko Takano in Sustainability • 7 min read

The climate transition won’t happen from the sidelines. Active investors must step into the conversation, ask better questions, and hold capital to a higher standard. ...

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Why a new nature of business can still become a reality

August 28, 2025 • by André Hoffmann in Sustainability • 4 min read

The push for a more ecological way of doing business championed by Europe and China, among others, is cause for hope....

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The Wild West of tech sovereignty

August 27, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 7 min read

The race for tech sovereignty is intensifying as AI’s growth drives fierce competition for the rare minerals, chips, energy, and talent that underpin advanced computing. Supply chain fragility, geopolitical tensions, and export...

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The end of cheap everything?

August 25, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 7 min read

After decades of cheap everything, a new economic order is emerging where the old world of unquestioned abundance is over. In the third part of our five-article series, we explore how this...

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How circularity is becoming your best defense

August 21, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 9 min read

In this second article of our series on geopolitics and circularity, we examine how the scramble for critical inputs is fueling a new era of resource wars and what it means for...

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How Arcos Dorados is turning global scale into local impact

August 19, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Esther Salvi in Sustainability • 10 min read

How the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee is leveraging global brand programs for social and environmental impact across Latin America and the Caribbean. ...

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Power, scarcity, and the new rules of the game

August 18, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 7 min read

This first article on the intersection of geopolitics and circularity explores what the end of globalization means for trade relations and business strategies, and how circularity can offer a solution to a...

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Inside out: building a career in ESG where it’s needed most

August 14, 2025 • by Zoë Falquet in Sustainability • 7 min read

Zoë Falquet, Sustainability Director at International Petroleum Corporation, reflects on how an unplanned path and a conviction to lead from within helped shape her ESG leadership journey. ...

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