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Sustainability Highlights

G&A presents important news and developments in Sustainability and ESG in its weekly eNewsletter, Sustainability Highlights. To subscribe to receive the newsletter in your email, please fill out the form to the right.

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1Sep
2017
Time to Tie Exec Comp to Sustainability Performance? Some Folks Think It Is Time -- and How to Do It

For the past 25 and more years, the focus of the sustainable & responsible investment (SRI) community has been on matters related to corporate compensation, usually a corporate governance concern, as well as additional concerns... Read full issue >Read full issue >

25Aug
2017
Millennials and Sustainable / Responsible / Impact Investing -- A New Force To Be Reckoned With!

We Americans are fond of putting specific age cohorts in neatly assembled descriptors -- the Silent Generation; the Greatest Generation; the Baby Boom Generation; Gen X and Gen Y.Now in focus: The Millennial Generation, fast... Read full issue >Read full issue >

18Aug
2017
Corporate Competitiveness -- An Important Consideration for Board & C-Suite, Including the CFO -- Here's Important News From Accenture

Is corporate growth and profitability "hard wired" to sustainability and trust? Important question! The answer (a declarative "yes") was advanced by Mark Pearson and Bill Theofilou, of the Accenture consulting firm, in a recent... Read full issue >Read full issue >

14Aug
2017
Of Prime Concern to Many Companies: Water! Will Corporate Advertising Claims “Around” The Water Issue Click With Customers?

California....Water: The place name and the liquid substance are interconnected in the minds of sustaianbility professionals thinking about climate change and the effects that we are already seeing in the American landscape.... Read full issue >Read full issue >

4Aug
2017
Broadening Activism Among Institutional Investor Classes on ESG Issues - Here to Stay, Says Proxy Advisor CEO

"Operating under the radar" -- that is, various categories of institutional investors getting active in the "investor activist" game? Bruce Goldfarb, CEO of Okapi Partners, describes a sea change that he sees that is underway,... Read full issue >Read full issue >

1Aug
2017
Using The GRI Standard For Sustainability Reporting Leads To Higher Quality Reports -G&A Analysis Shows

The S&P 500 (R) universe of large-cap companies is the most widely used gauge for investors of large-cap U.S. corporate entities. There is more than US$7 trillion investments benchmarked to the S&P 500, with index assets of... Read full issue >Read full issue >

21Jul
2017
The Cities & States of the USA Move Ahead on Climate Change -- Mayors & Governors, Leaders in Addressing Challenges & Providing Solutions

We've been sharing news and perspectives on recent developments in l'affaires climate change, with the US government [at the Federal level] abandoning the landmark Paris Agreement (the COP 21 accomplishments, with almost 200... Read full issue >Read full issue >

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