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Tag Archives: ESG
Ready For Their Close-Up: Corporate Secretaries and “The Shape of Things to Come”
Part One of Three The TakeAway: The recent annual conference of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals focused on “The Shape of Things to Come”—that is, key issues and trends affecting corporate accountability and sustainable prosperity. In so … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Ethics and Values, Interactive Technology, Politics, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged Anthony Horan, Corporate Board Member, Doug Chia, ESG, Fay Feeney, Governance Minutes, Jim Brashear, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Ken Bertsch, materiality, Nasdaq, Sarah Teslik, Sarbane-Oxley, Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals, T.K. Kerstetter, Tim Smith, Walden Asset Management, ZixCorp
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A Valentine’s Bouquet: Twelve for 2012
The TakeAway: The blooms of sustainable prosperity and justice are fed by at least twelve currents that will get stronger throughout 2012. They involve the maturation of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance; rethinking the meaning of “fiduciary”; balancing internationalism … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Natural Disasters, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Apple, B-Corporations, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), climate, conflict, Corporation 20/20, divided societies, ESG, fiduciary, G4, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), human rights, Middle East, MITSloan Management Review, Occupy Wall Street, post-conflict societies, social sustainability, stakeholder engagement, supply chains, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), U.N. International Year of Cooperatives, XBRL
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Scaling Pains at AccountAbility
The TakeAway: AccountAbility Standards Board resigns en masse, while the UK standard-setter for sustainability assurance and stakeholder engagement pledges to stay true to its mission. Last week, the voluntary Standards Board (SB) at AccountAbility resigned en masse in a letter … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged AA1000, accountability, Andrew Uptegrove, Bill Baue, ESG, Ethical Corporation, Ethical Performance, Fabian Pattberg, G20, integrated reporting, Kurt Ramin, Liv Watson, Mallen Baker, Maya Forstater, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Semantic Web, Simon Zadek, stakeholder engagement, Standards Board, Sunil Misser, sustainability assurance, Toby Webb, XBRL, XBRL Europe, XBRL International
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Both/And: The Big Tent of Socially Responsible Investing
Commentary by Murninghan Post Editor Bill Baue The TakeAway: Seeming dichotomies thrive side-by-side as complementary strategies at the SRI in the Rockies Conference. Attire at the SRI in the Rockies Conference last week in San Antonio ranged from tie-dye to … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Amy Domini, Bruce Kahn, Deutsche Bank, Domini Social Investments, ESG, Generation Investment Management, Goldman Sachs, Marc Fox, Mark Regier, Michael Jantzi, oil sands, Peter Knight, Petrobras, SRI, SRI in the Rockies, Suncor, Sustainalytics, Tim Smith, Walden Asset Management
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The $3 Trillion Socially Responsible Investing Market
The TakeAway: Nearly one out of every eight dollars professionally managed in the US employs sustainability criteria, according to the Social Investment Forum SRI Trends Report. As the US economy slumped into the worst recession since the ‘30s over the … Continue reading
Sustainability News Roundup
The TakeAway: CalPERS to factor ESG issues in all its funds by mid-2011; GRI announces work on fourth generation reporting guidelines; and a BSR poll shows increased support for CSR/sustainability. Three developments this week demonstrate the rising acceptance of incorporating … Continue reading
Social Materiality: A New Lens for Sustainable Investing
Guest Commentary by Liz Umlas As the concept of ESG – addressing environmental, social, and governance factors in business and investment considerations – gains traction, the focus often seems more firmly on the first and last than on the middle … Continue reading
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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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
Sustainability: When Will the Exception Become the Rule?
Commentary by Bob Massie The TakeAway: Silo Thinking by Corporations, Activists, Investors, and Others Slows Progress of Sustainability Those who have been working to advance the concept and practice of sustainability in the United States over the last decade can … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Bob Massie, Ceres, climate change, ESG, Global Reporting Initiative, SEC, sustainability
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Environmental & Social Policy Resolutions Receive Record Levels of Support
Part Two of Three Parts For more than forty years, shareholder activists and large investors have expressed their concerns to corporate boards through the proxy resolution process. For them, this past season was the best ever. Proxy resolutions are proposed … Continue reading
Posted in Proxy Voting
Tagged Altria, Bob Massie, Calvert, Center for Political Accountability, Ceres, Citizens United, climate change, coal ash, diversity, Domini Social Investments, equal employment, ESG, Exco Resources, Gardner Denver, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Heidi Welsh, hydraulic fracturing, ICCR, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, KBR, Leggett and Platt, Lubber, Mercy Investment, Miami Firefighters, NYCERS, Pax World Funds, political activity, political spending, proxy resolution, reporting, Reynolds American, SEC, shareholders, Si2, sustainability, Sustainable Investments Institute, The Transition Group, Trillium Asset Management, Trinity Health
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Voting Matters: Record-Breaking Proxy Season
Part One of Three Parts It’s been a banner year for U.S. capital market reform: on Wednesday President Obama is expected to sign the Dodd-Frank Act, while the SEC is receiving comments on its Concept Release for improving the process … Continue reading
Posted in Proxy Voting
Tagged annual meetings, Bob Massie, Ceres, climate change, disclosure, Dodd-Frank, ESG, Heidi Welsh, Investor Advisory Committee, IRRC, Lane Christensen, mandatory reporting, Massey Energy, Peter DeSimone, proxy resolution, SEC, shareowners, Sustainable Investments Institute, XBRL
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Sustainability Disclosure and Sector Sensibility
Now that the experimental cap seems to be holding on BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf, it’s time to step back and take a wider view of the company and the industry it occupies. While we need to keep the focus … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting
Tagged Amsterdam Declaration, Arup, benchmark, Bob Massie, Domini Social Investments, ESG, G3, GRI, industry, Initiative for Responsible Investment, key performance indicators, KPI, Lydenberg, mandatory disclosure, materiality, National Annexes, One Report, Rogers, SEC, sector, shareholders, sustainability, The Transition Group, Wood
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The Future of Good Governance
July is the month to celebrate democracy’s journey—Independence Day in the US, Bastille Day in France ten days later. Too bad democracy’s core values aren’t enacted, even though they’re embedded in our corporate governance system of checks and balances. Fortunately … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Anne Simpson, Bill Baue, Bob Massie, CalPERS, consumers, Council of Institutional Investors, Council of Institutional Investors, democracy, engagement, ESG, Funston and Wagner, Ira Millstein, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, proxy access, shareowner, stakeholders, Stephen Davis, Yale, Yale Governance Forum
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Stepping Toward Corporate Sustainability Footprinting
Guest Commentary by Bill Baue, Contributor and Curator, The Murninghan Post The TakeAway: Corporate sustainability ratings and reports don’t really tell us if a company is sustainable, but sustainability footprinting takes a step in the right direction. I challenge you: … Continue reading →