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Sustainability Talking Premium gives your people access to clear, engaging video content designed to help them understand what sustainability means for business — without the jargon, the lectures or the greenwash.

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Learn from the people doing it

Sustainability Talking has brought together more than 130 business leaders, sustainability specialists, economists, investors, innovators and policymakers.

We have taken those conversations and turned them into a growing library of short, focused videos that make complex ideas understandable.

Most videos are just five to ten minutes long.

Long enough to explain something properly.

Short enough to fit into the working day.

Knowledge library

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The library is organised around the issues businesses and their people need to understand.

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Double Materiality

Double materiality sounds technical, but at its heart it is a simple business idea: understand how environmental and social issues affect your organisation, and how your organisation affects the world around it. In this series, Rune Røkke, Petter Binde and Bob Willard explain why double materiality is more than a reporting requirement. They explore its role in risk management, strategy, value-chain analysis and long-term business resilience, as well as the practical challenge of deciding what really matters. The emphasis throughout is on using double materiality as a tool for better decision-making — without becoming overwhelmed by terminology, frameworks or unnecessary detail.

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From Short-Term Profit to Long-Term Value

Businesses are under constant pressure to deliver short-term results, but decisions that maximise immediate profit can weaken resilience, future competitiveness and long-term value. In this series, Masami Sato and Paul Clements-Hunt explore why sustainable business requires a broader time horizon. They look at the original purpose of ESG, why environmental, social and governance factors matter to investors and business leaders, and how those factors can reveal opportunities as well as risks. The underlying question is simple: how can companies make decisions today that strengthen, rather than compromise, their ability to create value tomorrow?

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Nature as Business Infrastructure

Nature is not separate from the economy; it is part of the infrastructure on which businesses depend. In this series, Sue Bonney, Sarah Edwards, Ryan Asher and Dr Stephanie Hime explore how nature loss translates into business risk, operational disruption and financial exposure. They examine the role of government and business, the challenge of imperfect data, the importance of understanding dependencies and impacts, and how natural-capital accounting can help organisations make better decisions. The central message is that nature should not be treated as a peripheral environmental issue, but as a core question of resilience, value creation and long-term business performance.

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Navigating the Shift: Pivoting into Sustainability

Moving into sustainability does not always mean starting again. In many cases, the strongest route is to build sustainability capability on top of the expertise people already have in engineering, finance, operations, buildings, procurement or strategy. In this series, Thamyris Gomes and Bhavanishanker Sharma explore what organisations really need from sustainability professionals, why specialist knowledge still matters, and how existing technical and commercial skills can be redirected towards ESG and decarbonisation. The underlying message is practical: sustainability is most effective when it becomes part of how people already work, make decisions and create value across the organisation.

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Scaling Cleantech: From Innovation to Corporate Action

Cleantech innovation only creates impact when it can move from the laboratory into the market. In this series, Nik Baumann and Emin Askerov explore what it takes to scale new technologies, finance commercialisation and connect startups with the corporations that need their solutions. They explain how offtake agreements reduce risk, why companies cannot simply wait for low-carbon technologies to appear, and why founders need internal champions who can navigate corporate decision-making. The series also looks at one of the hardest transitions of all: moving from proving that a technology works to building an organisation capable of delivering it reliably at scale.

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Sustainability as a Survival Strategy

Sustainability is increasingly moving from the margins of business into the heart of strategy. In this series, Krishna Aditya Ala and Priya Gunjan explore why resilience, competitiveness and long-term relevance are becoming inseparable from sustainability. They examine the misconception that sustainability is simply a cost or reporting burden, explain why climate risk is also business risk, and consider how organisations can act even when their data is incomplete. The emphasis is practical: sustainability should help businesses understand risk, create value and remain capable of adapting as markets, regulation, supply chains and environmental pressures change.

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Carbon Accounting for Business Decisions

Carbon accounting is becoming part of mainstream business decision-making. But unlike financial accounting, it deals with a physical reality that is often difficult to measure precisely — especially across Scope 3 emissions and complex value chains. In this series, Kartik Moorthy and Nik Baumann explain how businesses can use carbon data without becoming paralysed by imperfect information. They explore the role of finance and procurement, how carbon can be incorporated into ROI and investment decisions, and why reducing emissions can often align with reducing costs. The central message is practical: carbon accounting should help businesses make better decisions, not simply produce another layer of reporting.

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Getting Started in ESG

ESG can seem complicated when organisations first encounter the terminology, frameworks and reporting requirements. But getting started is less about mastering everything at once and more about understanding what matters to the business, identifying priorities and building from there. In this series, Matthew Sekol, Petter Binde and Robin Boustead explore some of the practical questions organisations face at the beginning of their ESG journey: where to start, which mistakes to avoid, how to understand the value chain, who should take responsibility, and how measurement can help turn sustainability from an ambition into a credible business case.

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Global Sustainable Development: Setting New Standards

Sustainable development is broader than climate alone. It brings together environmental protection, social justice, governance, risk and the long-term resilience of organisations and economies. In this series, Anita Punwani explores how businesses can engage with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a more practical and accountable way. She explains why cooperation across sectors matters, how organisations can use the SDGs as a strategic framework, and why sustainability needs to move beyond statements and reporting towards measurable action. The central message is that meaningful sustainability requires organisations to connect ambition with governance, responsibility and evidence of progress.

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AI Changes Where the Thinking Happens

Artificial intelligence can enhance human capability — but it can also tempt us to hand over the thinking itself. In this series, Nicole Mercedes Zethelius and Kelly Meijers explore what happens when AI becomes part of everyday decision-making. They consider the difference between augmentation and “cognitive surrender”, why critical thinking becomes more rather than less important in an AI-enabled workplace, and why organisations must preserve human judgement even as increasingly powerful tools automate analysis and content creation. The challenge is not simply learning how to use AI. It is learning how to use it without losing the human capabilities that make good decisions possible.

Not another training course

Sustainability Talking Premium isn’t designed to turn every employee into a sustainability expert.

It is designed to make sustainability understandable.

To give people enough knowledge to ask better questions, recognise opportunities and understand why decisions are being made.

Because lasting change rarely happens simply because a sustainability department tells people what to do.

It happens when people across an organisation understand why it matters.

A growing library

Sustainability doesn’t stand still. Neither will the library.

New interviews, explainers and short videos are added regularly, drawing on the conversations taking place on Sustainability Talking and on developments across business, technology, regulation and the global economy.

Your people don’t just receive a sustainability course.

They get an evolving sustainability knowledge resource.

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