Over the past 7 years the Carbon Disclosure Project has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process. And their website has become the largest repository of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data in the world.
A joint partnership between IT service providers, hardware and software manufacturers, the U.N.’s Environment Programme and the International Telecommunication Union, GESI aims to foster sustainable development and improve environmental sustainability in the industry.
NOW on PBS is devoting an entire beat to covering people who use business strategies for humanitarian purposes - also known as social entrepreneurs. The NOW broadcast will investigate more than a dozen social entrepreneurs, the website features news, inspiration and tools.
PBS with the Skoll Foundation are also sponsoring the Project Enterprise Contest — a contest where users nominate a promising social innovator and they follow the winner’s trials and tribulations.
An unprecedented coalition of large companies, pension funds, and trade unions urged corporate America to scrap quarterly earnings guidance in an attempt to curtail the influence of hedge funds and other short-term investors.
IS THIS, to use the words of Martin Lipton, a veteran Wall Street lawyer, the age of the imperial shareholder? Owners in America are putting executives under an increasingly harsh spotlight. “Activist” hedge funds have found that they can make a lot of money by amassing stakes in companies and pressing managers, sometimes by taking board seats themselves, to make changes that force the share price upwards.
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Many shareholders argued that taking steps to curb global warming was in the company’s long-term financial interests. Stephen Viederman, a shareholder from New York, compared Exxon Mobil’s current strategy to the big U.S. automakers’ policy of sticking to gas guzzlers while foreign competitors opted for more fuel-efficient cars.
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Database Draws on Over 400 Environmental, Social and Governance Indicators to Help Investors Manage Compliance and Portfolio Risk
Lead or Step Aside, EPA
States Can’t Wait on Global Warming
By Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jodi Rell
A massive expansion of the federal government, supported by big business, is on the way. Conservatives couldn’t be less prepared.
Value is the only commonality in an increasingly complex, challenging and interdependent world.
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