Coffee & Beverage Cups and other foam packaging in investor focus – McDonald’s Corp and Dunkin’ Donuts Respond to activist / advocacy Investor Concerns As You Sow congratulated Dunkin’ Donuts brand managers for agreeing to phase out polystyrene (foam) beverage and other packaging, joining McDonald’s (As You Sow and company… Read More
Volume and Velocity: These may well be the key characteristics of developments in corporate sustainability and in sustainable investing in the year 2018 -- MSCI and BlackRock Setting the Pace... Bigger, faster, more...this is how Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of Research for MSCI’s ESG Research Group and her colleague Matt… Read More
INVESTORS FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GHG EMISSIONS at Fossil Fuel Companies – and Other Public Companies Beyond the Energy Sector
January 6, 2018
A growing number of institutional investors are focused on “De-carbonizing” their investment portfolios – New York City Pension Funds in the Lead... But the issues are not clear-cut, and the debate goes on among key players in the capital markets…on the investor and corporate sides. One of the leaders of… Read More
CORPORATE PENSION PLANS – SECURE OR NOT? When the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation May Step In & How Companies Are Affected
January 5, 2018
This brief is about Corporate Pension Plans – Employee Retirement Security – and the role of the PBGC Guarantee Agency of the Federal Government in the protection of certain pension plans… And what happens when corporate plans fail and PBGC steps in… Put this in the Risk Management file. Almost… Read More
SUPPLY CHAIN IN FOCUS: “Sustainability — Not a Choice, But a Given” The Theme of the Sustainability Consortium 2017 Impact Report
August 29, 2017
Issue 1.4 The Sustainability Consortium -- "TSC" -- was launched by the management of Wal-Mart Stores in 2007 with initial funding to the University of Arkansas and Arizona State University to develop approaches to greater sustainability; the Product Category Life Cycle Assessment was made public by the two schools… Read More
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