The value of sustainability spend is in the capacity one builds while doing your human rights due diligence training, POSH workshops, sustainability reports and your CSDDD preparation for next year. One report at a time, we curate the culture of safety in an era of war. Do good, by updating that human rights policy or HSE policy that no one bothers after probation, or by understanding that corporate reputation can be dented, irrespective of which crisis communication rockstar agency that you can hire which could have killed a bad story in a previous generation.

We are all worried regarding blockages of the maritime and the cardiac sort. And it is not good for our health, the financial kind. Lender and Sustainable finance towards electro states building (channelling Tooze) will be on the uptake as energy security will dominate the loan books.

The green transition is an ethical way of building the solar grids and transmission lines we need, without the accidents and violence.

Sustainability measures accumulate over time, create culture of psychological safety and resilience, the practice of it and not the definition.

Sustainability for the post war will mean less hype, more substance.

In this regional conflict with world war-esque potential/ where oil will probably shatter records this week and have several second order impacts, it is surprising to not read about AI boosting productivity or carbon markets being the silver bullet. Wars change the paradigm.