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| Sustainable Products & Services — Growing Demand Driving Revenue Growth — That’s MONEY!
Sustainability? Green products & services? That’s nice. One might still hear this in the company’s executive suite. But the word is fast getting around in the board room and C-suite corridors of power. That’s MONEY we are talking about. The Conference Board just released a study – “Driving Revenue Growth Through Sustainable Products & Services,” authored by Thomas Singer and supported by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRC). Findings: Leading companies are realizing a substantial and positive impact on revenue from their sustainable products and services. The researchers looked at a dozen large-cap enterprises: Allianz; BASF; Caterpillar; Dow Chemical; DuPont; General Electric; IBM; Johnson & Johnson; Kimberly-Clark; Phillips; Siemens; and Toshiba. Among these companies, revenues from sustainable products & services grew at 6X the rate of overall company revenues (from 2010 to 2014). Sustainable products represent on average 21% of total revenues. Capital sources – banks, investment bankers – play an important and increasing role in financing the development of large-scale products / solutions, mostly through asset finance and green bonds. Among the companies in the Conference Board survey, customer demand for solutions that address global sustainability challenges (climate change for example) is a driving force. Also – increasing resource scarcity. Our Top Story is a must read for company managers., investors, analysts, asset managers, and others who may still be on the fence about the business case for corporate sustainability. And, green products and services…and the value in being a trailblazer in this space. And do clip the story and pass it around the C-suite when the questions come up…”sustainability?” What’s the purpose of that? Top Story of the Week Sustainability Initiatives Can Drive Corporate Revenue Growth And Innovation, New Research Shows (Thursday – July 02, 2015) Sustainability in Focus College Counseling: Great Schools for Students Interested in Sustainability Congress Doesn’t Think Agricultural Sustainability Has Anything to Do With Your Health Let’s talk about (brand) love (and sustainability) The science of sustainability: what we’ve learned from artificial photosynthesis and synthetic meat (Wednesday – July 01, 2015) Idaho sustainability program improving yields, efficiency Sustainability in entrepreneurship Who are the sustainability leaders? Steering Toward Sustainability: How California’s New Groundwater Law Can Help Us From Driving Off a Cliff ESG Issues & Players Coal industry scores a win but fate of plants still in air California Just Cut Its Water Use In A Major Way Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Brings Key Decision Makers To New York City for Inaugural Asset Owner Conference California public pension fund to reduce real estate exposure These 10 Economies Will Be the World’s Worst Performers Watching the Watchers European Centre for Corporate Engagement ESG/Sustainability Focus: Yes. Focus on sustainable investments and ESG. KEY PARTNERS: Maastricht University, MISTRA, SAM Group (managers of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes), Sustainable Investments Research Platform, PRI Academic Network, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Responsible Business, among others. Research papers may involve collaboration with numerous institutions and researchers. OVERVIEW/MISSION The European Centre for Corporate Engagement says its mission is ” (a) to develop, communicate, and promote a thought-provoking and innovative body of knowledge concerning sustainable business and finance, (b) through high-quality research, teaching, training, international networking, conferences, and other conventional outlets, with the ultimate goal to promote sustainable development.” ECCE also calls itself “a ‘lab for sustainable investment’; a multidisciplinary research network, founded by researchers with established track records in the academic domain and in practice.” The Centre takes pride in its diverse network, which includes such entities as ABP, the large Dutch Pension Fund for Civil Servants. NEWS SWEEPS A.S. CREATION TAPETEN AG DMS Offshore Investment Services approved for AIF Management Company solutions Opening Up the Boardroom |
Check It Out… G&A Institute Sustainability Update™Informative, insightful, thought provoking The Governance & Accountability Instituteblog focusing on the sustainable world evolving daily before our eyes. Read it, absorb it, question it and challenge. G&A’s Sustainability Update™ The Alphabet Soup of ESG / Sustainability / Etc Etc Again in Focus – is Triple Bottom Line Obsolete? An Important “Flash Report” About the S&P 500® Companies and Their Bedrock Sustainability Reporting… NASDAQ OMX Group and CRD Analytics Announce Companies In/Out of the Sustainability Benchmark Sweeping Changes in Corporate Sustainability? Yes – Check Out Sustainable Brands Top 10 _______________________________ _______________________________ Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Reporting G&A Institute is the Global Reporting
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