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Wall Street & Corporate Sustainability Leaders Remember that memorable line so many people have often quoted from the 1960s movie, "Cool Hand Luke," when the jail warden tells actor Paul Newman ("Luke") what we have here is failure to communicate! The quote of the line is apt for describing the views of Wall Street toward companies that have embraced sustainability, thinks Joel Makower, executive editor of Greener World Media, publishers of the on-line platform, Greenbiz. Joel is regarded as having his finger on the pulse of corporate sustainability trends and he comments on communication between Corporate America and Wall Street players. Specifically, Joel addresses the McKinsey & Company research paper (coming soon) that focused on the question, if sustainable business practices create profits and shareholder value, why aren't mainstream investors paying attention? Findings: Boils down to (1) investors don't have the data they need, (2) or understand how sustainability connects to creating value, (3) and perhaps most important, companies don't yet know how to tell a [sustainability] story that's relevant to Wall Street. Joel Makower, paraphrasing the warden's words: What we have here is a multi-trillion-dollar failure to communicate. The good news is that more investors are trying to figure out how to use data (such as the reams of data / information provided by Bloomberg, MSCI, Thomson Reuters), trying to pick winners with outperformance, and we may be at the tipping point as we move toward a time when investors will ask companies, what are you doing on sustainability? Read the Greenbiz report here as our Top Story of the week. Top Story of the Week Why sustainability leaders don’t impress Wall Street Sustainability in Focus Third Party Quality Assurance for Sustainability Reports on the Rise How to engage your employees on sustainability Penn State rewarded for sustainability on a national scale Asia Looks to Innovation to Achieve Sustainability Our Dysfunctional National Government Is Incapable of Building a Sustainable Economy (Thursday - August 07, 2014) 6 things about the McKinsey survey on sustainability Integrated sustainability key to business resilience, according to new report Pursuit of sustainability drives innovation in the chemical industry 2009 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes revealed Companies Seek Bigger Payoff from Sustainability Efforts ESG Issues & Players 2014 Proxy Season Shows Increased Pressure on Companies to Make Engagement Meaningful and Purpose-driven Deep Water Fracking Next Frontier for Offshore Drilling Ethical investing emerges from ruins Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds Obama says CEOs should quit complaining: Economist From Corporate Tax Inversions">The US Treasury Would Not Lose $20 Billion From Corporate Tax Inversions Conditions suggest volatile money flows to China, official says (Monday - August 04, 2014) Source: NY Times - For years, New York City has been dutifully pumping more and more money into its giant pension system for retired city workers. Next year alone, the city will set aside for pensions more than $8 billion, or 11 percent of the... Watching the Watchers
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