Corporate Impact

Corporate Impact: Transforming Lives and Reducing Poverty

Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Climate action often fails not from apathy, but from poor design. This article argues that the most powerful environmental impact comes from embedding sustainability into everyday systems—especially finance. By making climate-positive choices automatic rather than effort-based, businesses can drive durable behaviour change and shift outcomes at scale.
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Sam Teicher

The Business of Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher

Social Impact Pioneer, Sam Teicher talks the business of coral reefs, running impact businesses, investors and innovation.
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Talent Development, Social Impact & the Future of Work with Banalata, DHL Group

How to bring business talent development and social impact to get the best outcomes. Social Impact Pioneer Banalata Sen, Global Head of GoTeach at DHL Group shares her wisdom.
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Reimagining old IT equipment before it becomes waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

Reimagining Old IT Equipment Before It Becomes Waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

As support for Windows 10 ends, millions of corporate laptops risk becoming e‑waste. London social enterprise SocialBox.Biz shows how businesses can repurpose redundant IT devices with open-source software, cutting emissions while tackling digital exclusion. Partnering with charities, companies can turn “old kit” into a lifeline for people facing homelessness, poverty and isolation, and strengthen ESG performance.
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Trailblazers and Transformers How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

Trailblazers and Transformers: How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

With less than five years left to achieve the SDGs, a new UN Global Compact Network UK report benchmarks how six high-impact UK business sectors are performing. While companies show strong social sustainability progress, environmental action still lags. The findings offer a roadmap for aligning strategy, policy, and investment to accelerate UK leadership on the SDGs.
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The AI Divide Is Growing: Why the Future of Youth Entrepreneurship Rests on a Knife Edge

Artificial intelligence offers enormous potential to level the playing field for young entrepreneurs — but without urgent action, it risks deepening inequality. Drawing on insights from Youth Business International’s policy paper, this article explores how business, policymakers, and support organisations can collaborate to close the AI divide and build a more inclusive future for entrepreneurship.
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Beauty with Purpose: How Avon is Empowering Women and Driving Sustainability

Beauty with Purpose: How Avon is Empowering Women and Driving Sustainability

Avon is redefining beauty through purpose-driven sustainability. From empowering millions of Representatives to innovative cruelty-free and refillable products, Avon’s strategy integrates climate action, ethical sourcing and gender equity. This article explores how Avon’s inclusive business model and ESG commitments are creating lasting social impact across communities and supply chains.
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Heat Resilience: An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Action in the United States

Extreme heat is the deadliest US climate threat, costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars annually. A new white paper, Heat Resilience: An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Action in the United States, outlines a shared agenda, sector guidance, and policy and finance levers to drive coordinated, community-centered resilience across business, government and healthcare.
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Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises

Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises

As world leaders endorse the Belém Declaration on people-centred climate action, one truth is clear: farmer resilience must move from rhetoric to investment. This article explores why smallholder farmers receive less than 1% of climate finance, and how local agricultural enterprises offer the fastest, most scalable route to climate-resilient supply chains and global food security.
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Embedding a Commitment to Responsible Purchasing Practices

Global retailer Primark is pioneering responsible purchasing practices across its supply chain by adopting itemised costing methodologies, embedding cross-functional training and collaborating with suppliers. This case study explores how the retailer aligned buying, merchandising and ethical trade functions, leveraging the Ethical Trading Initiative Learning & Implementation Community to support living wages and sustainable conditions for workers worldwide.
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Women Entrepreneurs Driving Inclusive Economic Growth

Women Entrepreneurs: The Untapped Engine of Global Economic Growth

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day highlights a critical truth: empowering women entrepreneurs is essential for global economic growth. Despite driving innovation and community resilience, women still face systemic barriers to finance, digital access, networks, and safety. Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not only a moral imperative—it is a powerful economic strategy with transformative potential.
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Linking Social and Environmental Impact for a Fairer, More Resilient Future

Business Fights Poverty explores how companies can link social and environmental impact to drive a fairer, more resilient future. Using insights from the 5 Bridges to 2045 framework and Natura’s pioneering Integrated Profit & Loss (iP&L) model, this article shows how valuing natural, social, and human capital can transform decision-making, performance, and long-term sustainability.
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Bonsucro and Better Cotton Unite to Strengthen Climate Resilience in Agriculture

Bonsucro and Better Cotton Partner to Help Farmers Tackle Climate Challenges

As climate risks intensify across global agriculture, Bonsucro and partners are expanding the Climate Resilience Platform (CRP) to equip farmers with actionable, science-based tools. Through open-access collaboration with CGIAR, Better Cotton, and leading research organisations, the initiative empowers producers to anticipate climate impacts, strengthen livelihoods, and accelerate resilient, sustainable supply chains across the world.
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Why Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks IncreaseWhy Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks Increase

Why Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks Increase

IDH shares its top 10 lessons from convening landscape initiatives for the last 10 years. The results across a range of landscapes show that greater impact can be achieved together. The cost and risk sharing that landscape approaches allow makes them more relevant to agri-food businesses as physical supply risks from extreme weather increase.
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Lasting Conservation in the Amazon Starts with Better Livelihoods

This year’s COP30 conference is shining a light on the importance of the Amazon rainforest. Evidence from Peru highlights the critical role that economic opportunity must play in Amazon conservation–and how investment can help to unlock them.
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From the Highway to the Blue Zone: Real-World Signals for Resilient Business

This article follows a 2,700-kilometre motorhome journey to COP30, where Fundação Dom Cabral and partners used the road as a living climate laboratory. Crossing four biomes and nine cities, the team gathered real-world evidence on resilience, local innovation, and community risks, offering business and city leaders practical lessons for climate action and resilient development.
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From the River to the C-Suite: What the Amazon Teaches Business About Climate Strategies

Written from a riverboat en route to COP30, this unique article explores how business leaders can draw practical, investable lessons from the Amazon. It urges companies to link emissions goals with local livelihoods, co-create with communities, and view nature as infrastructure. A powerful reminder that regeneration must be built from the ground up.
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Human Rights and Business

Help Shape the UK’s Approach to Business and Human Rights: Take Part in the National Baseline Assessment

The UK Government invites Business Fights Poverty members to contribute to a National Baseline Assessment of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Led by Nottingham Rights Lab, the survey and consultation explore government and business efforts to protect and respect human rights. Responses are welcome until 14 November 2025.
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Highway crossing a large river 5 Bridges

Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality

At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
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CSR 2.0

CSR 2.0: Commercial Social Revolution?

As globalisation widened the gap between corporations and communities, CSR often became marketing gloss. “CSR 2.0” calls for a systemic approach that embeds social impact into commercial strategy—aligning profit with purpose. By addressing beyond-the-firm constraints and fostering inclusive growth, businesses can turn responsibility into resilience, competitiveness, and genuine poverty reduction.
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Corporate impacts can transform lives and reduce poverty significantly through targeted programs and partnerships that foster economic growth

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