Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business

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Urgent Business Conference

Urgent Business: Getting on the pathway to reach the Global Goals by 2030, 28 September, 9.30am - 5pm

This free-to-attend, online conference will feature a series of live panel events, with academic experts and high-profile business leaders from around the world sharing the latest research, tools and best practice to help businesses of all sizes navigate these global challenges and lead responsible change in their organisations.

Urgent Business: Five Myths Business Needs to Overcome to Save Itself – and the Planet

The seminal new book from Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, Urgent Business, is now available to buy. This essential guide features the latest research, best practice and toolkits from the Centre, to give businesses the knowledge and practical means to play their part in addressing the big sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

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Recent high profile greenwashing cases have thrown inactivity of business into the spotlight

17 August 2022

Shopping bags next to a laptop displaying a fast fashion shopping website

As consumers have become increasingly aware of their shopping habits and how they impact the environment, fast fashion brands have come under fire.

Huge gap between businesses and British public on sustainability

04 May 2022

There is a huge disparity between public opinion on how businesses should behave on environmental and social issues, and how they are actually behaving.

Carbon Accounting Matters: University of Birmingham becomes first university to mainstream climate change into accountancy course

02 March 2022

The University of Birmingham has become the first Higher Educational establishment to introduce climate change into its BSc Accountancy and Finance degree course.

University of Birmingham first to introduce mainstream climate change into accountancy course

24 February 2022

Professor Ian Thomson teaches carbon accounting to students

The BSc Accountancy and Finance degree is incorporating climate change into the programme, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

University of Birmingham: first university to mainstream climate change into accountancy course

24 February 2022

Professor Ian Thomson, Dr Mayya Konovalova and Dr Madlen Sobkowiak lead mainstreaming of climate change into University of Birmingham's accountancy course.

3 New Year's resolutions your business must make to help achieve net zero

04 January 2022

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By Professor Ian Thomson, Director of Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business Business

Keyworkers and the million people who will be working on Christmas Day

20 December 2021

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Professor John Bryson, Department of Strategy and International Business

Smartphones, spiking, cyber awareness and avoiding Christmas fraud

16 December 2021

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By Professor John Bryson, Department of Strategy and International Business.

Becoming label literate: the challenge of eco-labelling

15 December 2021

By Professor Ian Thomson and Dominic Bates, Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business

PPE vital to healthcare workers' mental health, finds new research

29 November 2021

As the NHS braces for its tough winter period, which traditionally runs from 30 November to the end of February, new research proves how vital PPE is to the mental wellbeing of healthcare workers.

COP26 and the Four Pillars of Responsible Capitalism

19 November 2021

Professor Andy Mullineux writes about COP26, responsible capitalism and the dumping of raw sewage from water companies.

Sewage in the seas and broken contracts: what next for England and Wales' water companies?

11 November 2021

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By Professor Andy Mullineux, Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, Emeritus Professor of Financial Economics

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Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business is a strategic initiative from Birmingham Business School in partnership with, and funded by, Lloyds Banking Group. If you’d like to get in touch please contact our Communications and Events Officer Chloe Carpenter at c.beard@bham.ac.uk.

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