Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility News from 3BL Media- April 16-20 Is National Volunteer Week 18 April 2018
- Booz Allen Launches Foundation to Address Social Issues and Build Community Resilience 18 April 2018
- Comcast and NBCUniversal Employees Donate Time Consulting With Local Nonprofits 18 April 2018
- Podcast | Data-Driven CSR: A Conversation With Daryl Brewster and Carmen Perez of CECP 18 April 2018
- Mercados y Tendencias: US Department of State Launches “Power to Grow” Challenge 18 April 2018
Category Archives: Sustainable Investing
Climate Skeptics’ Arguments Crushed By Global Bank
The TakeAway: Deutsche Bank powerfully rebuts arguments used by climate deniers, and snubs US for lagging on climate policy and clean energy investments. Climate deniers faced another massive debunking of their flimsy claims in last Tuesday’s release of a white … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing
Tagged climate change, sustainability
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Finance Offers Meeting Point for Discussion With Islam
The TakeAway: The CSR and SRI communities can discover shared values with Islamic finance over goals of sustainability, prosperity, and justice. The frenzy surrounding a Southern preacher’s threat to burn the Koran – on the eve of the ninth anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainable Investing
Tagged 9/11, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Dar Al Istithmar, DinarStandard, Domini Social Investments, Ground Zero, Harvard Forum on Islamic Finance, Harvard Islamic Finance Project, Harvard Law School, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Islamic finance, Koran, Laura Berry, Nazim Ali, Park51, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, Sayd Farook, Shari’ah, Steve Lydenberg
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NOTABLE PEOPLE: Bob Monks and the Battle to Change Corporate America
The TakeAway: Bob Monks believes new corporate governance reforms fall short, but digital tools can help advance accountability goals. Robert A.G. Monks has a long history of pioneering work on corporate accountability. From his tenure as first Department of Labor … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Notable People, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing, Web 2.0
Tagged beneficial owners, Bob Monks, CalPERS, Corporate Governance, ERISA, institutional investors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), interactive technology, LENS, Nell Minow, proxy access, Robert A.G. Monks, Roebuck, Sears, SEC, The Corporate Library, trustee
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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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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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