The Lagos Business School Sustainability Centre, Pan-Atlantic University was launched in 2010. The Centre combines theory and practice on sustainability, builds leadership skills and supports constructive dialogue and collaboration between business, government, civil society and academics to find solutions to critical sustainability challenges.

The Centre achieves its mission through knowledge creation/research, the delivery of certificate programmes, customised courses and hosting business action initiatives and platforms. This is to enable strategic business priority shifts, constructive dialogue and collective action between various stakeholders to find and scale solutions to sustainable development challenges in Africa and especially relevant to economic activity (business).

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Driving Business the Responsible way

LBS Sustainability Centre supports business and organisations in mainstreaming, integrating and assessing their sustainability strategies and initiatives, based on cutting-edge sustainability thinking and Centre-led research findings.

We partner with businesses on enabling constructive dialogue and collaboration between business, government, civil society and academics to find solutions to critical sustainability challenges in Africa. In addition, we partner with businesses to provide customized, in-house management development and training programmes

Our Impact in Numbers - 2023

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Certificate and Executive Programme Participants
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Our Thematic Focus Areas

Corporate Sustainability

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Corporate Sustainability

Corporate sustainability entails the approach and action of businesses towards sustainable development, sustainability strategy, shared value, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and corporate philanthropy.

It also involves the designing, building, and operating of structural elements in ways that do not diminish the social, economic and ecological processes required to maintain human equity, diversity, and the functionality of natural systems.

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Responsible Business Leadership

Responsible Business and Leadership

Responsible businesses are principle and value-driven, demonstrating consideration for employees, customers, suppliers and the wider society in the course of their profit-making activities.

We believe that leadership plays a key role in running businesses in a responsible manner

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Responsible Business and Leadership

Circular Economy

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Circular Economy

A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. This industrial model aims to restore or regenerate the ecosystem, society and economy by intention and design.

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Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Management

Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Management

Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) contribute to a  country’s gross domestic product (GDP), wealth creation, employment and technological advancement.

Social entrepreneurship entails recognising social problems and achieving social change by employing entrepreneurial principles, processes and operations.

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Public Policy

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Public Policy

Government actions and policies play an important role in promoting sustainability practices. Our public sector engagements serve as a platform to advocate for policies that facilitate sustainable development at national and continental levels.

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A few of our Partners

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NEWS & INSIGHTS

Sustainable Finance Summit: Stanbic IBTC Holdings, LBS Sustainability Centre Lead Stakeholders Discourse on Financing Sustainable Development in Africa.

Corporate Sustainability Forum Insights Sustainable Finance Summit

International Youth Day: LBSSC Naija Youth Sustainability Forum Charts Pathways to Unlock Youth Productivity and Creativity for Impact

Circular Economy Corporate Sustainability Forum International Youth Day- feature

Celebrating the Success of the Nonprofit Leadership and Management Youth Academy Programme

Circularity Forum Insights News NGOs NPLM YA 1

LBS NPLM Youth Academy, TechSoup and Data Science Nigeria Highlight the Digital Transformation Strategies and Tools for Nonprofit Organisations

News Workshop Youths tech webinar

Demystifying the ‘S’ in ESG – Sterling One, PwC, and LBS Sustainability Centre Experts Highlight Social Material Issues and Impact Priorities for Corporations 

July 8, 2024

CEO Connect Forum Nigeria: Accelerating Creating Shared Value for Sustainable Business Practice in Nigeria

July 4, 2024

Introducing Olufunke Baruwa, 2024 Senior Fellow, Nonprofit Leadership and Management (NPLM) Youth Academy Programme

May 10, 2024

LBSSC Partners Sterling One Foundation, Others to host Open E-Learning ESG Series

May 7, 2024

Excellent programme, I hope to return along with my board members in the near future’ – Participant, Leading a Sustainable Business Seminar. Very helpful learning experience, I will make sustainability a core function of my business”

Participant

Leading a Sustainable Business Seminar

I am most grateful to LBS for the opportunity to participate in the NPLM programme. When I enrolled for the programme, I didn’t know what to expect but I was sure of what I wanted to gain from it and I was not disappointed.

Maria Etemore Glover

NPLM Participant

The approach towards working on engagements is very structured, professional and results driven. Apart from being very collaborative and constructive, the team at GLB understand what they are doing on transformation programs. This has only helped all of us succeed towards realizing game-changing visions.

Adeolu Adekola

Leading a Sustainable Business Seminar