Top Story Sustainability reporting in stock exchanges 'comes of age'
(Thursday - December 08, 2016)
Source: GreenBiz - As many as 21 stock exchanges across the world could introduce sustainability reporting standards in the coming months. They would join the 17 exchanges that currently recommend listed companies to report on environmental, social...
Sustainability in Focus
Too few of Hong Kong’s listed companies treat sustainability reporting seriously, claims leading advisory agency
(Monday - December 05, 2016)
Source: South Chins Morning Post - CSR Asia, which creates and monitors sustainability strategies, says only around 60 of city’s 2,000 listed companies consider it a strategic necessity How countries rank on food waste, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture
(Monday - December 05, 2016)
Source: CS Monitor - By highlighting performance of different countries and identifying best practices, a new index establishes a benchmark for global leaders to measure progress in establishing sustainable food systems. Silicon Valley's sustainability problem
(Monday - December 05, 2016)
Source: GreenBiz - The tech sector has stepped up its fight against climate change since COP21 last year. From the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Coalition pledging more than $1 billion towards the transition to clean energy, to Google... Source: CattleNetwork - McDonald’s partnered with the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef to conduct a “Sustainable Beef Pilot Project” in Canada. Let’s Quit Obsessing Over the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability
(Tuesday - December 06, 2016)
Source: Triple Pundit - As sustainability professionals making pitches to senior management to adopt more sustainable practices company wide, we’re told to avoid soft qualitative rationale and speak in the language of business – numbers, usually... 3 ways college students are revolutionizing sustainability
(Tuesday - December 06, 2016)
Source: Green Biz - Universities around the world are striving to curb their wasteful tendencies as well as to foster an atmosphere that encourages environmental consciousness. Here are three areas of campus life that universities have sought to... Sustainability to enhance, not only protect, environment
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: NZ Farmer - An environment-enhancing and profitable farming operation can go hand in hand, a Bay of Plenty sheep and beef farmer tells Anne Boswell... Now More Than Ever, We Need Global Solidarity for Sustainability
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: Triple Pundit - At the finish line is a sustainable world – something we are in a race against time to reach. With a rapidly increasing population on one side of us and fast-depleting resources on the other, we have to accelerate our...
Opportunities for forest conservation and sustainability in the South
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: GreenBiz - Our supply chains are linked to a global economy, whether you are talking commodities such as palm oil from Indonesia or coffee beans from South America. Even close to home, timber, pulp, wood fiber and biomass from the southern... Wendy's Pushing Forward with Sustainability Efforts
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: QS Magazine - Wendy's announced its partnership with the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and a commitment to advancing sustainability efforts throughout the U.S. beef value chain. With a forty-six year commitment to serving only fresh... From Frivolity To Sustainability: Why Technology And Innovation Matter For The Future Of Fashion
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: Forbes - “Often the perception of the fashion industry is that it’s a frivolous entity, based on silly ideals about what we should wear, and how we should look.” So goes the opening line to my TEDx talk delivered in London in late October... ESG Issues & Players Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste
(Tuesday - December 06, 2016)
Source: Washington Post - The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews... Polar sea ice the size of India vanishes in record heat
(Tuesday - December 06, 2016)
Source: Reuters - Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. Portland Adopts Surcharge on C.E.O. Pay in Move vs. Income Inequality
(Thursday - December 08, 2016)
Source: NY Times - Moving to address income inequality on a local level, the City Council in Portland, Ore., voted on Wednesday to impose a surtax on companies whose chief executives earn more than 100 times the median pay of their rank-and-file... ISS and Glass Lewis Release Policy Updates for the 2017 Proxy Season
(Thursday - December 08, 2016)
Source: Lexology - Recently, proxy advisors Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis released updates to their benchmark voting policies for the 2017 proxy season. In the case of ISS, additional guidance is expected in the... Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds More Analysis on the Coming Pension Hit
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016) Associated Profiles : California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Source: davisvanguard.org - He wrote that "the Bartel firm's projections of CalPERS contribution rates for the City of Davis are significantly higher than the assumptions that the City of Davis... California is land to the $100k minimum wage state worker: 220,000 highly-compensated state employees cost the public $35 billion.
(Tuesday - December 06, 2016) Associated Profiles : California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Source: mybudget360.com - Keep in mind this is for salaries and does not include the future pension costs that will come from massive pension systems like those offered by CalPER. The fact that there are 220,000 people... JPMorgan, HSBC, Credit Agricole Fined $521 Million Over Euribor
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: Bloomberg - JPMorgan Chase & Co., HSBC Holdings Plc and Credit Agricole SA were fined a total of 485.5 million euros ($521 million) for rigging the Euribor benchmark as European Union antitrust regulators wrapped up a five-year investigation... Russia Is Selling a Big Chunk of This State-Controlled Oil Giant
(Thursday - December 08, 2016) Associated Profiles : Qatar Investment Authority
Source: Fortune - Glencore glncy said in a statement it would finance part of the deal by putting up 300 million euros of its own equity, with the rest financed by banks and by the Qatari sovereign fund, the Qatar Investment... Sponsored Message | 
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Trump's Transition -- And Potential
Impacts on Sustainability Trump's plan to rethink free trade agreements could have a silver lining for the environment
(Monday - December 05, 2016)
Source: Business Insider - President-elect Donald Trump has placed himself in staunch opposition to environmentalists by denying climate change and threatening to dismantle the EPA. But there’s one area in which the two sides agree: both oppose the... Trump’s unpredictable style unnerves corporate America
(Wednesday - December 07, 2016)
Source: Washington Post - The turbulence began Tuesday morning with one of President-elect Donald Trump’s signature tweets of wrath: a public jab at Boeing alleging that the cost of building Air Force One had spiraled out of control... Trump Picks Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt To Lead EPA
(Thursday - December 08, 2016)
Source: NPR - President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, announcing his decision in a statement Thursday... | GET CERTIFIED IN CSR WITH
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