A very belated welcome to 2026. This is what I’ve been reading, listening to, and using across the sustainability spectrum in the first few weeks of the New Year:

How to get promoted to Sustainability Director or VP in 2026


The team at Trellis Group certainly know how to grab your attention at the start of a New Year. This article is well worth a read if you’re looking to advance your sustainability career prospects. I’d also strongly recommend their piece on sustainability tools to use in 2026. Maybe you can use the latter to help achieve the former?

Electrification, not decarbonisation, is the climate story of 2026


If you listened to the news in 2025, you’d think we went backwards in our fight against climate change. That’s why it was refreshing to listen to this conversation on electrification between Akshat Rathi and Kingsmill Bond on the Bloomberg Green Zero podcast, which offers a more grounded and forward-looking perspective.

How to Manage Human Rights Risks


Along with Zero, my other current favourite podcast is Sustainability Now from MSCI Inc. The team consistently offer excellent advice, combining a strong business and investor perspective across a wide range of sustainability and ESG topics.

SDG Tracker Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
I often recommend the work that Our World in Data does to help us better understand the many challenges the world faces. Their climate analysis is exemplary, but nothing tops their work tracking progress against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A fantastic resource for any sustainability professional.

Decarbonisation Parameters, Dollars and Sense, Electrons, Photons, Molecules


Equally impressive is Nat Bullard’s annual presentation from Halcyon, covering all things climate. I challenge anyone not to find something of interest here, including that climate chart I’ve always been looking for.

Responsible marketing for sustainable value
On a more modest scale, my Cambridge Marketing College colleague Neil Wilkins has updated the Responsible Marketing Framework we use on our one-day course, Get Carbon Literate Understanding and Communicating Climate Change and Sustainability. You can explore the framework directly, and if you’d like to join us on the course, you can also check upcoming dates.

 

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'Sustainability InSight' is my regular roundup of recent insightful sustainability content. My aim is to improve understanding and knowledge across the sustainability spectrum - not just the environment and climate change - to help us all lead a more sustainable life. If you see any content that you'd recommend, then just let me know https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelgclark/

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Until the next edition of Sustainability InSight,

Nigel Clark