Academic: Sustainability Reporting by Kristjan from Copenhagen Business School

AGILE Sustainability

Welcome to Episode 4 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we invited a very experienced speaker on Sustainability Reporting, Kristjan Jespersen.
Kristjan collaborated closely with the palm oil sector to build sustainability reports that demonstrate the sector's commitment to maintaining a sustainable environment. This collaboration experience gave him valuable first-hand information on how sustainability reporting evolved over the years in response to changes in external regulations around sustainability. Now he is generous to share those valuable insights with our listeners, who want to start building or improving their sustainability reporting to align with their business strategies.
The topics in this podcast are:

• 00m44s Introduction on Kristjan and his research
• 02m14 s Benefits of investing in Sustainability Reporting
• 04m53s Evolvement of Sustainability Reporting for businesses
• 08m30s Means to get started on Sustainability Reporting
• 13m12s Useful frameworks or standards for Sustainability Reporting
• 17m49s Efficient methods to collect and manage data for reports
• 20m35s An example of strategic use of sustainability reports
• 23m30s Future Trends in Sustainability Reporting

One of the highlights from Kristjan's sharing is to leverage an agile approach when building sustainability reports. It's very difficult for businesses to craft finalized standards or templates for sustainability reports on the first try. And, commonly, sustainability reports get improved in iterations and, normally, each iteration introduces different changes than the previous iteration. What's important is the learning journey that companies go through to increase the transparency on the company's status on sustainable development via building sustainability reports.
If you like this podcast and want to learn more about Kristjan's experiences and research, do visit his profile page here.
Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/
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