Sustainability Highlights

At this time of year, we’ll usually see a flurry of “looking back” and “looking ahead” perspectives shared, distributed by service providers, with focus on 2023 developments and 2024 forecasts. This issue of our newsletter... Read full issue >Read full issue >

A comment often heard several decades ago in sustainability and ESG investing circles was that U.S.-headquartered companies were distinct laggards in disclosing information and especially performance data on their environmental,... Read full issue >Read full issue >

The sixth and final status report prepared by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was released in October. The Task Force said it continued to see “significant momentum around adoption and support of... Read full issue >Read full issue >

The UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), formed in 2019, is a member-led initiative of institutional investors committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero GHG emissions by year 2050 – a tall... Read full issue >Read full issue >

Corporate executives and board members may wonder what specific factors are shaping the scores and ratings assigned to their companies by the major ESG ratings agencies. These include MSCI, Sustainalytics (part of Morningstar),... Read full issue >Read full issue >

We’ve reached an all-time high in sustainability reporting, according to the Governance & Accountability Institute which points out that today 96% of S&P 500 companies publish ESG reports in some form, along with 81% of Russell... Read full issue >

Critics have often called it "the Californication of America" when CA lawmakers move to address an important issue head-on. The good news is that across the land progressive thinkers celebrate many such developments in the... Read full issue >Read full issue >