In response to the rising demands of stakeholders, companies are racing to put out sustainability commitments, with 92% of the S&P 500 now publishing these reports.
Governance & Accountability Institute Inc.’s 2021 Sustainability Reporting in Focus noted that, in 2020, 92% of the S&P 500 companies—four times as many companies as a decade ago—published a sustainability report detailing how... More updates >
Impact stat: 92% of S&P 500 companies published a sustainability report in 2020, according to the Governance & Accountability Institute.
One report found that 70 percent of companies in the Russell 1000 Index published sustainability reports in 2020 using various third-party standards, which include information about climate risks. SEC staff, in reviewing nearly... More updates >
Gensler cited a report that found 65% of Russell 1000 companies published "sustainability reports" in 2019. But the report, by the Governance & Accountability Institute, found only around half of companies in some sectors like... More updates >