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S&P 500® INDEX COMPANIES’ ESG/SUSTAINABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY REPORTING HITS 86% FOR YEAR 2018 – LATEST G&A INSTITUTE RESEARCH RESULTS… For the eighth year, the G&A Institute research team has examined the ESG, Sustainability, Responsibility & Citizenship disclosure and reporting practices of the S&P 500® Index companies and determined for year 2018 that 86 percent of the almost 500 public companies were publishing reports in various formats for public viewing. This is a one percent increase over the 85% reporting trend determined by G&A researchers for year 2017. When the research effort began eight years ago (for 2010 reporting, in the 2011 examination) the number of companies among the 500 was just below 20%. In the beginning of January each year, the current team of G&A analysts begin their examination of the prior year’s reporting trends. The S&P 500 companies (not always an exact number) are closely examined to determine public disclosure and reporting practices for activities that may be branded “corporate sustainability, or responsibility or citizenship, or even environmental” that appear in print, web or hybrid versions. The initial results are double checked by other analysts and by EVP Louis Coppola, the architect of G&A’s research efforts since 2011. G&A Institute Senior ESG Analyst Elizabeth Peterson assists as team leader in the coordination of the analysts’ research (she has been involved in the effort for several years now). G&A’s team report analysts who contributed to the research this year are: Minalee Busi, Jessica Caron, Emilie Ho, Jess Peete. The S&P 500 Index research results are widely cited by investors, analysts, company managers and other stakeholders in their own work and have become a standard reference for those citing the dramatic increase in corporate sustainability reporting. Institutional investors cite the results in urging non-reporting companies to begin reporting to shareholders on their sustainability journey. You can see the full report in the news release that is linked as the Top Story this week. This Week’s Top Stories
Global Sustainability: Continuing Forward Momentum! Starting at the Source: Achieving a Sustainable Supply Chain Sustainability is Simple: Do Just One Thing 5 Ways For Boosting Sustainable Productivity In Your Workplace Finding sustainable solutions for compelling issues Innovations for Sustainable Building Do Consumers Care? We Ask the Question More Often Now The Missing Sustainability Link Is The Customer. How Are H&M, Uniqlo and Walmart Getting It Right? Bad news: The fashion industry is actually slowing down on sustainability Paper or plastic? 6 sustainable foodservice packaging options for both Making Brands More Sustainable Makes Life More Sustainable How A Sustainable Food System Is Built France to Lead Global Fashion Sustainability Effort The Rising Tide of Sustainable Seafood The business of the future is ethical, sustainable, and employee-owned Quick Scan of the Headlines: CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history The relationship between corporations and climate change FCC Wants Phone Companies To Start Blocking Robocalls By Default
Headlines From the Corporate Sector U.S. States Sue Teva, 19 Other Drug Companies in Price-Fixing Complaint Backseats of Uber and Lyft cars ‘have 35,000 Times More Germs than the Average Toilet Seat and 219 Times as Many as the Average Taxi’ Another Montana and Wyoming Coal Operator Ddeclares Bankruptcy Lawyers Argue that Ford Knowingly Built Focus, Fiesta Cars with Faulty Transmissions Exclusive: Impossible Foods raises $300 Million with Investors Eager for Bite of Meatless Burgers Amazon Offers to Pay Employees $10,000 to Quit Their Jobs and Deliver Packages Instead Bayer Has Now Lost Over 44% of Its Value Since Its Monsanto Merger Hershey Highlights Progress in Key Areas of Deforestation, Sustainable Cocoa and Human Rights in 2018 Sustainability Report CSR in Annual Reports: 7 Conflicting Trends Blockchain Project CEO to Pay $150K Fine, Teach Business Ethics Following Settlement U.S. sanctions on Huawei send stocks reeling; yields fall Nike is Launching a Guide to Sustainability for Brands–get it here From Bob Iger to Warren Buffett & Jack Dorsey: These are the highest and lowest paid CEOs of 2018 |
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S&P 500® Index Companies’ ESG/Sustainability, Responsibility Reporting Hits 86% For Year 2018 – Latest G&A Institute Research Results…
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