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A comparative overview of sustainability and ESG integration across financial regulations in Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan — highlighting progress, challenges, and opportunities for alignment with global standards.

This report highlights the growing need for sustainable practices in mid-market companies and their essential role in the global economy. Learn about the drivers, challenges, and strategic paths that help these firms evolve towards sustainability, influencing larger corporations and setting benchmarks for smaller enterprises.

Could African mining spark another super cycle?

The dramatic and sustained drop in the global oil price led to a certain amount of doom mongering around the cleantech sector. The fear, of course, was that cheaper fossil fuels would make clean energy investments less competitive.

The slump in oil prices has its winners and losers. Jim Menzies, global leader for the food and beverage sector at Grant Thornton, says the outlook is good for food and beverage companies. While Linda Beal global leader for the oil and gas sector at Grant Thornton, says, oil and gas companies are facing significant challenges.

Businesses need to open their eyes to the benefits of measuring and valuing natural capital says global leader for energy & cleantech Nathan Goode.

Nathan Goode on the outlook for renewables in 2015

Linda Beal on the shake-up in mining and how it creates the perfect storm for M&A in the sector

Grant Thornton colleagues head off to the Investing in African Mining Conference 'Indaba' in Cape Town, thoughts turn to the health of the South African and wider regional mining sector.

Recession, economic uncertainty, and market volatility have forced many miners out of the industry and brought others to the point of insolvency.

Nathan Goode calls for a change of narrative in the sustainability debate.

Nathan Goode welcome growth opportunities extra government scrutiny brings

As the global economy slowly recovers its verve, so business leaders in the hospitality and tourism sector are looking at new ways to grow their operations. So says our International Business Report (IBR), which interviews around 150 senior executives in the sector globally every quarter.

Energy costs are a major concern for businesses in Italy: close to two in five business leaders expect rising energy costs to hinder growth over the next 12 months (38%) according to our Q1 International Business Report (IBR) results. This is above the global (35%) and EU (31%) averages and reflects the higher price of energy in Italy compared with the rest of Europe.

We asked the 3,500 business leaders who responded to our latest Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) a new question in Q4-2013: Do you expect rising energy costs to constrain the growth of business over the next 12 months?

The outlook for the cleantech sector looks to be improving. While the Climate Policy Initiative reported that global climate finance flows had plateaued at US$359bn in 2012, business growth indicators from our Q3 International Business Report (IBR) are positive, particularly as regards investment and R&D, although a shortage of talent remains a challenge