CSEM-BMP has established and sponsors the Sustainability Leadership and Management Group, a professional networking group on LinkedeIn.

It is open to those who are, and those who intend to become, extraordinary leaders. The area of leadership and management of interest to our group members is the transition to true ecological sustainability in large corporations and governments.

High street retailer GAP released their fourth social responsibility report last week. Outlining the measures the company is taking to “make their clothes more sustainable” and to foster “a culture that supports responsible business practices”, the report is available online only and contains an impressive list of goals and progress against those goals.

Today the UK Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have published their report on Securing food supplies up to 2050: the challenges faced by the UK.

Professor King and I have an on going conversation about how to measure the sustainability of a company.  On a theoretical basis I hold that just like pregnancy, a company can not be partly sustainable and due to the interlinked nature of the global economy, no company can be sustainable until all companies are sustainable.  However Professor King has persuaded me to his point of view that on a practical level this is not helpful.  So we have been looking at a practical way of measuring the sustainability of a company.