Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, requiring urgent, ambitious action from all global actors. Businesses are required to play a vital role in reaching key climate milestones and averting the worst impacts of climate change.
Protecting and preserving the environment is central to achieving sustainable development and creating a better world for all today and for future generations. Sound environmental management is an important part of sustainable development.
Policies to promote employee health and wellbeing not only protect them from occupational risks, but also provide benefits for for individuals and employers. Unhealthy lifestyles, characterised by high levels of stress, sedentary behaviour.
Social responsibility strategy and governance systems help promote responsibility for the impacts of organisations’ decisions and activities on society and the environment, through transparent and ethical behaviour.
As the drive toward a global system for sustainability-related reporting continues, investors, regulators and policymakers are turning their attention to the important role of assurance in ensuring high-quality reporting.
As requirements and expectations of stakeholders on sustainability practices and performance continue to mount, there is the urgent need for capacity development to equip employees and practitioners.