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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Say Hello to AfricaSIF!
The TakeAway: The Africa Sustainable Investment Forum adds a new chapter to the history of using finance for social progress that started in South Africa. Most people think the US-based divestment movement toppled apartheid in South Africa. The reality is … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing
Tagged AfricaSIF, apartheid, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Development Bank of South Africa, economic sanctions, FIFA World Cup 2010, Ford Foundation, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Graham Sinclair, integrated reporting, Jay Naidoo, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Padraig O'Malley, Responsible Investor, SinCo, South Africa, sustainability, XBRL
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The Greening of Hollywood
The TakeAway: The new Green Production Guide and longstanding Environmental Media Association help Hollywood pursue sustainability. At last night’s Emmys, George Clooney received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for charitable work on behalf of disaster and terrorist victims—including those affected … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Media & Entertainment
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Fighting the Fury: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and the Business Response
The TakeAway: Companies and investors need to deal with natural disaster mitigation, resilience, and rebuilding efforts. Five years ago this Sunday, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, where the wounds remain raw. Two years ago, Cyclone Nargis in Burma … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Natural Disasters, Public Policy
Tagged Ceres, China, climate change, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Fritz Institute, Global Reporting Initiative, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, Isaiah Funds, Munich Re, natural disasters, Pakistan, ProVention, Russia, Swiss Re, UN, Web 2.0
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Proxy Access & Shareholder Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion
The TakeAway: New SEC rule allows shareholders to nominate board candidates, a major victory for corporate democracy. Yesterday was historic: the SEC granted shareholders the power to nominate candidates for board director elections. The 3-2 vote along party lines ended … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Proxy Voting, Public Policy
Tagged Business Roundtable, Council of Institutional Investors, Dodd-Frank, Harvard Law School Forum, James McRitchie, Les Greenberg, Lucian Bebchuk, Mary Schapiro, proxy access, Robert A.G. Monks, Rule 14a-11, Scott Hirst, SEC, Social Investment Forum, US Chamber of Commerce
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Make Money by … Saving the World: The Biosphere Economy
The TakeAway: We can flip the equation of economic growth through environmental damage, to global prosperity through ecological healing. Evidence of human assault on our fragile biosphere abounds this year: Pakistani floods and Russian drought and wildfire (all related to … Continue reading
Posted in Biosphere Economy, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Natural Disasters, Sustainable Investing
Tagged biodiversity, climate change, ecosystems, F&C Asset Management, International Year of Biodiversity, John Elkington, McKinsey, natural disasters, Pavan Sukhdev, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), Trucost, UNEP Finance Initiative, UNEP Green Economy Initiative, Volans
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Fiduciary Failure: Closing the ESG Disclosure Gap
The TakeAway: Flex your muscles, report tells investors, to get better environmental, social, and governance reporting (and practice) from companies. What’s the secret to good corporate governance? Good investor governance. That’s why we were delighted by a recent report from … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Investor Governance
Tagged Alan Willis, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), Canadian Securities Administrators, endowments, ESG, fiduciary, institutional investors, integrated reporting, investor governance, Julie Desjardins, key performance indicators, proxy access, SEC, stock exchanges, UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
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“We the People”, Not “We the Moguls”
The TakeAway: Controversial corporate political spending spurs shareholder activism aimed at aligning company values with American values. With election season around the corner, today we question if our democracy, founded on the ideal of representing “We the People”, has been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Human Rights, Proxy Voting, Public Policy
Tagged Best Buy, Bruce Freed, Calvert Investment, Center for Political Accountability, citizen activism, Citizens United, George Packer, LGBT rights, News Corp, proxy access, self-governance, shareholder activism, Shelley Alpern, Target, Trilium Asset Management, Walden Asset Management
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Apple Opens the Way to X-Filing
The TakeAway: New iPhone XBRL application opens new windows into financial reporting; next up: sustainability reporting. Apple’s iTunes Store has joined the digital revolution in financial reporting. Yesterday, it rolled out a new offering – it wasn’t a song, movie, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Interactive Technology, Public Policy, Web 2.0
Tagged Apple, Brix Project, Charlie Hoffman, crowd-sourcing, GRI, integrated reporting, iPhone, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Liv Watson, SEC, Semantic Web, smartphone, taxonomy, X-filing, X-tagging, XBRL, XBRL International, XBRL US Labs
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The Four E’s of Social Media & Sustainability
The TakeAway: Sustainability Leaders Need to Use Social Media to Exchange, Educate, Engage, and Enhance. Social media has exploded within the past few years to become a fixture in our culture. For example, Facebook’s network has mushroomed to 500 million … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Proxy Voting
Tagged 2degrees, Creative Commons, Facebook, Harvard's CSR Initiative, McDonald's, McKinsey, Nestlé Waters, SAP, Shareowners.org, social media, Timberland, Twitter, user-generated content, Voices of Challenge, wikis
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Deadline to Red-Line: GRI Invites Input on Gender, Community, and Human Rights
The TakeAway: We outline proposed changes to GRI’s Gender, Community, and Human Rights reporting guidelines to help you submit comments by 23 August. Consistent with its commitment to continual renewal through multi-stakeholder review, the Global Reporting Initiative is hosting a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged Bastian Buck, Carmen Niethammer, Community, CSR Asia, Elizabeth Umlas, G3 Guidelines, G3.1, gender, GRI, human rights, International Finance Corporation, John Ruggie, Katerine Miles, Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights, UN Global Compact, Universal Declaration on Human Rights, University of Hong Kong, WikiGender
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The Go-Getter Approach to Climate Change
The TakeAway: With extreme weather mounting and Congress dithering, WRI report outlines what we can do now to reduce GHGs. In the world of climate change, the gap between scientific consensus and political resolve is widening – but luckily, this … Continue reading
Human Rights Due Diligence
The TakeAway: Integrating Human Rights Due Diligence into Risk Management May Help Prevent Future Oil Spills and Market Meltdowns We consider the collapse of the global banking system in 2008 as a financial debacle, and the collapse of the Deepwater … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy
Tagged due diligence, Enterprise Risk Management, Harvard Law School Forum, human rights, Human Rights Impact Assessment, John Ruggie, John Sherman, Oxfam, Poverty Footprint, Protect, Remedy Framework, Respect, SRSG
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Ask Not What You Can Do for GM, Ask What GM Can Do for the Country
The TakeAway: Will the “new improved” GM fulfill its social duties as it prepares for an IPO? “What’s good for GM is good for America”, the old saying goes. But that’s a misquote. Former GM CEO Charles Erwin Wilson really … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged analysts, bailout, bankruptcy, Carlyle Group, Daniel Akerson, foreclosure, GM, Michael Moore, Michigan, Nevada, Paul Ingrassia, private equity, public obligation, shareowner, stakeholder engagement, unemployment, venture capitalists
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Pig Iron and Modern Slavery
The TakeAway: Shareowner Activism Can Help Deter Human Rights Violations A few decades ago, The New Yorker ran a famous cartoon in which a startled gas station attendant, having raised the hood of a fancy car to check the oil, … Continue reading
Bad Boys, Bad Governance
The TakeAway: Lapses in Personal Ethical Conduct Often Point to Bad Corporate Governance Late last Friday, in case you missed it, Hewlett-Packard fired its CEO Mark Hurd, amidst charges of improper behavior. Michelle Leder of footnoted.org noted that HP buried … Continue reading
Hits & Misses: Proxy Access, Political Contributions, and Net Neutrality
The TakeAway: Goldman Pledges No Political Spending (Thumbs Up), Target Political Contribution Backfires (Thumbs Down) It’s Friday, a perfect opportunity to survey events of the week and reflect on their significance going forward. Friday’s also a good day to experiment … Continue reading
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Reactions to Launch of International Integrated Reporting Committee
The TakeAway: Integrated reporting is a great idea, but there are many implementation challenges. Sustainability guru John Elkington calls integrated reporting (which blends financial reporting with environmental, social and governance reporting) a Holy Grail, the “Second Tiger” of the Transparent … Continue reading
Integrated Reporting: Off to A Strong Start
The TakeAway: International Integrated Reporting Committee Launches to Blend Financial Reporting with Sustainability Reporting Good news for proponents of sustainability reporting: On Tuesday, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Accounting for Sustainability project (A4S) sponsored by the Prince of Wales … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Public Policy
Tagged A4S, Allen White, Amy Domini, Bob Eccles, Bob Massie, Business for Social Responsibility, Ernst Ligteringen, Global Reporting Initiative, IIRC, integrated reporting, Joan Bavaria, Joan Shapiro, John Elkington, King Committee, Mervyn King, Michael Krzus, sustainability
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Board Diversity, Elitism, and Performance: What Works Best?
Part Two of Two Parts The TakeAway: Can Diverse Boards Avoid Pitfalls of Directors Spread Too Thin, And Enhance Performance? Yesterday we described the Mad Men effect on corporate boards sorely lacking gender diversity. Today, we continue our discussion, placing … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance
Tagged board diversity, interlock, Nell Minow, SEC, The Corporate Library
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Corporate Boards and Mad Men: We’ve Come How Far?
Part One of Two Parts The TakeAway: Number of Women on Corporate Boards Still Low, Despite Research on Value of 3 or More Women Directors Mad Men is one of my favorite television shows because it captures the style and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance
Tagged board diversity, Fortune 500, Russell 3000, The Corporate Library
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Multiple Networks Syndrome: Diminishing Sustainability Impact
Commentary by Bob Massie The Take-Away: Partitioning ESG Activism Undermines Sustainability As A Holistic Concept Many thanks to those who commented on my first post on “silo” thinking. Here are some additional thoughts on necessary improvements to sustainability activism. It … Continue reading
Cutting in Line: GRI and Integrated Reporting
Commentary by Bill Baue, Editor in Chief, Murninghan Post The TakeAway: GRI’s Embrace of Integrated Reporting May Distract from XBRL and Sustainability Context Last October at the Business for Social Responsibility Conference, Global Reporting Initiative CEO Ernst Ligteringen made an … Continue reading →