Top Story of the Week With Scientists Predicting the World's End (Again), the UN Rattles Its Cup
(Monday - June 11, 2012)
Source: Forbes - Notice all the horrendous news about our environment? That’s a sure sign that the UN is about to throw another mega-gabfest where global leaders will shake their heads and shake down the U.S. for monies that Congress will wisely... Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Reporting
G&A Institute is the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) sole data partner for the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland. As the data partner we monitor, analyze and database information on all Sustainability reports issued in these territories. Recent Sustainability and CR Reports issued in the USA, UK and Ireland are: USA BNY Mellon Publishes 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility Accomplishments
June 12, 2012 Source: MarketWatch Amgen Publishes 2011 Environmental Sustainability Report
June 12, 2012 Source: Amgen Cleveland Clinic Releases First Sustainability Report Using Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines
June 12, 2012 Source: Cleveland Clinic Intel publishes 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report
June 12, 2012 Source: Intel Corporation IDACORP Releases Inaugural Sustainability Report
June 9, 2012 Source: PRNewsWire Boeing Issues 2012 Environment Report
June 8, 2012 Source: Boeing Company Southwest Airlines Releases Third Annual Integrated Report On Triple Bottom Line Of Performance, People, And Planet
June 8, 2012 Source: MarketWatch AMR Releases 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report
June 8, 2012 Source: MarketWatch ExxonMobil Announces 2011 Corporate Citizenship Report
June 8, 2012 Source: CSRWire - Occidental Petroleum Publishes 2011 Social Responsibility Report
June 8, 2012 Source: Occidental Petroleum
United Kingdom ESG / Sustainability Osborne says Greece may have to quit euro
(Wednesday - June 13, 2012)
Source: Reuters - Europe may need to sacrifice Greece's membership of its single currency bloc in order to convince Germany to put in more money to save the euro, Britain's finance minister George Osborne suggested in remarks certain to enrage... Who's funding the green energy revolution?
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : UN - Environmental Programme
Source: CNN - Money invested in renewable energy reached new heights last year, topping $257 billion. So is the world finally going green? The figures come from The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2012 report, a UN Environment... Rio+20 Earth summit: leaked draft reveals conflict among countries
(Monday - June 11, 2012)
Source: Guardian - The latest draft text that 180 governments are expected to sign up to at the end of the Rio+20 Earth summit has been leaked to the Guardian. According to the UN, only about 20% of the wording has been agreed, so with just three... Harvard, Others Face New Tactics by SRI Backers
(Friday - June 08, 2012)
Source: Responsible Investment at Harvard - Student groups across the country from high-profile colleges such as Harvard and the University of Chicago are employing new tactics to pressure university endowment managers to adopt more socially responsible investing... Commentary
Not everyone hates the rich
(Thursday - June 07, 2012)
Source: CNN Money - Before we start predicting a coming class warfare, keep in mind that Americans may dislike inequality, but they don't all blame the wealthy. Sovereign Wealth Funds Pension funds jump in to help backstop corporate acquisitions - Financial Post
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : Canadian Pension Plan (SPF)
Source: Financial Post - For the second time in the past two weeks, a large Canadian pension fund has joined forces with a public ... A few days ago, the Caisse and the CPP Investment Board teamed up "equally, as it turned out â" to provide... Will the Middle East starve' - Salon
(Monday - June 11, 2012) Associated Profiles : Qatar Investment Authority
Source: Salon.com - Fly over Saudi Arabia today and you will see that the desert sands are dotted with huge circles of green. They were not there 30 years ago. These geometric oases are man-made, the result of a $40 billion national effort to create... Asiya Investments Chief Economist highlights growing power of Asian economies - AME Info
(Friday - June 08, 2012) Associated Profiles : Kuwait Investment Authority
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Asset Managers Firemen and architects race to save euro edifice - Reuters UK
(Monday - June 11, 2012) Associated Profiles : State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)
Source: Reuters - Detailed plans won't be ready until October and the German government, in an internal document seen by Reuters, expects agreement on a redesign of euro zone governance in March 2013. That would then have to be ratified by... Asian funds set to bypass private equity - Financial Times
(Sunday - June 10, 2012) Associated Profiles : Canadian Pension Plan (SPF)
- Canadian pension funds like Ontario Teachers and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, with C$162bn, have increasingly bypassed the private equity firms. So have the two investment arms of Singapore, Government of Singapore... Once-Reticent Investors Join Shareholder Revolts
(Friday - June 08, 2012)
Source: NY Times - Every spring, corporate chieftains and their boards squash uprisings from a familiar batch of pugnacious investors, a ritual that shields many companies from major change. Mixed Messages: Corporations Play Both Sides On The Climate - CSR Wire
(Friday - June 08, 2012) Associated Profiles : Green Century Capital Management & Green Century Funds
Source: CSRWire - So is Nike, which had a ratio of 1:3.1. But even Nike was confronted in 2009 by shareholder Green Century Capital Management, which sent the company a letter asking it to withdraw from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the... US Pension Funds Wal-Mart Officials Sued Over Mexican Bribery Allegations
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : New York City Comptroller’s Office: Bureau of Asset Management
Source: Bloomberg - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) officials were sued by a group of New York pension funds for alleged mismanagement in failing to prevent bribery as the world’s largest retailer expanded operations in Mexico. CalPERS loses 4.3% so far this quarter - Marketwatch
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Source: MarketWatch - The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest public pension fund, has lost 4.3% so far in the second quarter as markets reeled from renewed concerns over the European sovereign debt crisis... San Jose unions sue to block pension reform
(Thursday - June 07, 2012) Associated Profiles : California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), California State Teachers’ Retirement System
Source: San Jose Mercury News - San Jose police officers and firefighters Wednesday made good on promises to legally challenge San Jose's voter-approved pension reform with a pair of lawsuits filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Commentary
Sustainable pension plans are essential to economy - Colorado Springs Gazette
(Friday - June 08, 2012) Associated Profiles : Colorado Public Employees Retirement System (PERA)
Source: Colorado Springs Gazette - In fact, the fiscal crises facing Colorado Springs is much worse than that projected because the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) assumes an 8 percent return on investments in the pension plan. However, most... Watching the Watchers  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Established: 1988/1989
ESG/Sustainability Focus: Focus on climate change
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The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization.
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The IPCC was created to "provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences." IPCC's Web site calls the panel "a scientific body."
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The United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Meteorological Organization jointly established IPCC in 1989 "…to provide the governments of the world with a clear scientific view of what is happening to the world's climate…" Its first assignment was "to prepare a comprehensive review and recommendations with respect to the state of knowledge of the science of climate change; social and economic impact of climate change, possible response strategies and elements for inclusion in a possible future international convention on climate." That first IPCC Assessment Report was released in 1990. Since then, IPCC has released three more assessment reports plus other reports on specific topics related to climate change. News Sweeps
Study: West can expect more fires due to warming - msnbc.com
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) - msnbc.com - Climate scientists, including those affiliated with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have projected that more frequent wildfires would be likely in a warming world. Other effects of global warming... Top global accounting firm: US debt crisis 'bigger than you think' - FOX News
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) - FOX News - Feb. 24, 2012: A national debt clock is shown during a campaign event for Mitt Romney in Kalamazoo, Mich.AP What is the real cost of the U.S. government's nearly $16 trillion debt'. "The debt...
Climate Change Will Boost Wildfires Across North America And Europe, Scientists Report - Huffington Post
(Tuesday - June 12, 2012) Associated Profiles : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) - Huffington Post - Climate scientists, including those affiliated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have projected that more frequent wildfires would be likely in a warming world. |
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