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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™ Insights & perspectives for your sustainable journey… _______________________________ Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Reporting G&A Institute is the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) sole data partner for the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland. As the data partner we monitor, analyze and database information on all Sustainability reports issued in these territories. For a list of recently issued Sustainability reports please follow the links below:_______________________________
_______________________________ Many Reasons to Contact _______________________________ Governance & Accountability Institute Research Reports _______________________________ Corporate ESG Performance Factors & SustainabilityHQ Corporate ESG Performance Factors are important to financial analysts, asset owners and managers, and many stakeholders. The ESG framework or approach considers environmental issues and impacts, the company’s positioning and actions on social/societal issues, and important aspects of corporate governance. ESG key performance indicators are considered by investors as proxies for effective governance and management. Increasing numbers of of independent research and financial analysis firms monitor and measure these and advisie investors. The Sustainability HQ™ platform is an important profiling and monitoring resource for the G&A team, and for our clients and subscribers. ESG market players and corporate reputation influencers are profiled and monitored by G&A Institute. In these Highlights we provide some results of our continuous global scanning for ESG, sustainability and corporate responsibility news. The Associated Profiles indicated are in our platforms. For more information, please email us at info@sustainabilityhq.com
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| What Matters in Corporate Sustainability Reporting? New Analysis Report From G&A Institute Answers Questions The S&P 500 Index® managed by S&P Dow Jones Indices (McGraw Hill Financial) is closely followed – this important benchmark reflects the conditions of the large cap public companies in the US equities market and the national economy. (Ticker: SPX) More than US$5 trillion in assets are benchmarked to the index, and $1.6 trillion in index assets of the total – this captures 80% coverage of available market capitalization.The “big names” in the S&P 500 include Apple, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, IBM, Wal-Mart Stores, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Ford Motor, Honeywell…and many more.The Governance & Accountability Institute team has been closely monitoring and analyzing the S&P 500, and in 2011 and 2012 performed research to answer the question…”Corporate Sustainability Reporting – Does It Matter?” The team looked at the important third party recognitions earned by corporate sustainability leaders (and the answer was, yes sustainability disclosure and reporting does matter). For the 2013 examination, G&A’s Louis Coppola, as report architect, looked at the S&P 500 and beyond, to global peers, to research the question…what matters in corporate sustainability reporting.That is – what is considered to be material for company managements and the report readers (shareholders, internal and external stakeholders) and therefore included in the reports using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for their reporting. As we announced recently in our “Flash Report,” 72% of the S&P 500 companies were publishing a report in 2013. What did those companies and 700 others consider to be “material?”The report just being released by G&A answers the question. Louis and the G&A team examined the reporting of 1, 286 companies in the 35 sectors as classified by GRI, analyzing all 84 indicators of the framework. This comprehensive effort provides a clear picture of what companies using the GRI framework for their sustainability / corporate responsibility reporting consider to be “most” to “least” material and everything in between.More information is available at: www.ga-institute.com/sustainability-what-matters The complete analysis for each sector is available for purchase at:Top Story of the WeekCorporate Sustainability – What Matters? (Tuesday – June 17, 2014) Source: Governance & Accountability Institute – New York, NY — An Analysis of 1,246 Global Organizations’ Sustainability Reports to Examine Materiality Across 35 Sectors for all 84 GRI Performance Indicators. That is the question for company managements and investors as they prepare sustainability / corporate responsibility reports. Research results released today by the Governance & Accountability Institute attempts to answer the question for company managements in 35 different sectors, by examining the disclosure practices of 1,246 global sustainability reporters using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework in year 2012.About the Analysis
Sustainability in Focus Does high CEO pay matter to sustainability? Here’s one key to sustainability in global supply chains Talking About Sustainability Finding a Narrative: ‘Sustainability’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Real to Consumers Only technology can enable sustainability of both environment and economy A Trick that Turns Sustainability Naysayers into Supporters Harvard Business School to Host Aligning Sustainability with Corporate Performance Executive Education Program The shareholders putting sustainability on the agenda Five gigantic things happening in sustainability ESG Issues & Players Investor Coalition Successfully Urges Natural Gas Companies to Address Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations Is this FIFA’s greenest World Cup ever? Why Warren Buffet is Betting Big on Clean Energy Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds Britain becomes haven for U.S. companies keen to cut tax bills China sovereign wealth funds provide safe route to investment success New York City pension funds ban placement agents for all investments Watching the Watchers
Headquarters: secretariat at Oxfam America, Washington, DC, USA KEY PARTNERS PREP itself is a partnership of Calvert Investments, Entergy, Levi Strauss, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Starbucks, Limited Brands, and Swiss Re. BSR and Ceres are also listed as partners, and Oxfam America is the group’s secretariat. OVERVIEW/MISSION & BACKGROUND The Partnership for Resilience and Environmental Preparedness describes its activity by stating that it “…formed to address the risks and opportunities that climate change impacts pose to businesses and the communities on which they depend.” PREP calls itself “a one-year pilot partnership.” News Sweeps This Week in Sustainability: How Climate Change Impacts Public Health and Business Humanity’s Frightening Uncertainty About the Economic Consequences of Climate Change(Wednesday – May 21, 2014) Associated Profiles : Partnership for Resilience and Environmental Preparedness (PREP) What Are the Economic Consequences of Climate Change’ |
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| SustainabilityHQ Highlights is prepared by the Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. based on continuous monitoring of trends and developments in Sustainability and ESG. The SustainabilityHQ™ platform is available by subscription.
Governance & Accountability Instiute is the “Sustainability Headquarters™” for clients in the corporate, investment, public and social sectors. The G&A team provides research, monitoring, advisory and strategic information resources to clients in the corporate, investment, public and social sectors.The G&A services portfolio includes:ESG Counseling, Strategies & Benchmarking | Competitive Benchmarking | SustainabilityHQ™ is managed and published by Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. |
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