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 news articles: Will sustainability reporting ever grow up?
(March 6, 2012)
Source: GreenBiz
A new report from Ernst & Young, released today, paints a less-than-rosy picture of the state of corporate sustainability reporting. It's not that companies aren't doing it, or doing it well. It's just that they're doing it with...
ESG / Sustainability
New ILSR Report: Walmart's Greenwash
(Wednesday - March 07, 2012)Associated Profiles : MSCI Group (NYSE: MDX)
Source: PR Newswire - In a report released today, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance documents how Walmart's heavily promoted sustainability initiatives are falling short. The report, "Walmart's Greenwash", examines all aspects of the major... Activists take Apple workers'-rights campaign to Facebook
(Wednesday - March 07, 2012)Associated Profiles : Verité
Source: CNN - On Wednesday, Apple is expected to unveil the newest version of its iPad with all of the breathless hype that typically attends the consumer-tech juggernaut's public events. UN goals on safe drinking water reaches target early (News)
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)Associated Profiles : United Nations International Labour Organization
Source: EurActiv- The international target to halve the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water has been met, five years before the 2015 deadline, the UN announced on today (6 March). Nobel-winning economist says wealth gap is bad for growth
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)
Source: College Times - HACKENSACK, N.J. — Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, offered a sobering outlook this week on Europe's debt crisis, predicting the euro in its current form was unlikely to survive. In a speech Wednesday at Ramapo In climate wars, radicalization of researchers brings risks
(Monday - March 05, 2012)Associated Profiles : Union of Concerned Scientists
Source: Washington Post - Everybody talks about the weather, Mark Twain famously wrote, but nobody does anything about it. Many climate researchers are no longer following Twain's adage, noted Michael McPhaden, president of the American Geophysical Union....
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Pension Fund Seeks Better Yields
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)Associated Profiles : National Social Security Fund (SPF)
Source: CRI.com - The National Council for Social Security Fund, which runs the national pension fund, has selected 13 private equity funds to help invest 19.5 billion yuan (US$3.09 billion) for better returns. Larger pension plans outperform their smaller counterparts
(Saturday - March 03, 2012)Associated Profiles : Canadian Pension Plan (SPF)
Source: Investment Executive- Two professors at The Rotman International Centre for Pension Management have been awarded the Canadian Investment Research Award from the Toronto CFA Society and Hillsdale Investment Management for research ... Paper: Norway Sovereign Fund Offers Best Insights to Investors on SRI
(Thursday - March 01, 2012)Associated Profiles : Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global (Statens pensjonsfond – Utland) , Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Norway
Source: CIO- Institutional investors should look to the example of sovereign wealth funds, which have among the best practices with socially responsible investing (SRI), according to a newly released paper by a professor at the University of... Sovereign wealth funds off to slow M&A start in 2012
(Thursday - March 01, 2012)Associated Profiles : China Investment Corporation
Source: Reuters - Sovereign wealth funds are shying away from making large mergers and acquisitions, at least in public, with announced activity volumes tumbling to less than a tenth of last year, Thomson Reuters data shows.
Asset Managers
Sustainability is 'The New Normal' (Allen)
(Wednesday - March 07, 2012)Associated Profiles : State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)
Source: Mobile Press Register- Business leaders around the world are touting sustainability as the new normal for business and industry. The New Normal business environment will create a different competitive context - radically changed from conditions ... IR Global Rankings Releases its Annual Magazine
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)Associated Profiles : UBS
Source: PR NewsWire - NEW YORK -- IR Global Rankings ("IRGR"), the most comprehensive technical ranking system for investor relations websites, corporate governance practices and financial ... The 40 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers
(Friday - March 02, 2012)
Source: Forbes - For most hedge fund managers, 2011 was a year to forget. The average hedge fund fell by 5% even as the U.S. stock market eked out a tiny gain. Big shot investors like billionaire John Paulson were humbled and lost massive amounts...
Commentary
ESG issues and investment - who cares'
(Thursday - March 01, 2012)Associated Profiles : State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)
Source: Money Management.com - Oil spills, sweatshops in China, dodgy remuneration structures - AMP Capital's ESG research team explores the 'so what' question around environment, social and governance issues.
US Pension Funds
Florida Public Worker Pension Funding Change Tossed by Judge
(Wednesday - March 07, 2012)Associated Profiles : Florida Retirement System Pension Plan
Source: Bloomberg - Florida can’t proceed with Republican Governor Rick Scott’s changes to the state’s public employee pension system as part of an effort to save $1 billion a year, a judge ruled. Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford in... New GAO Report Validates Financial Health and Sustainability of Public Pensions
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)
Source: MarketWatch/BusinessWire - The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) released the following statement from Hank Kim, Esq., Executive Director and Counsel: "NCPERS is gratified -- but hardly surprised -- that the... | Corporate ESG Performance Factors are important to financial analysts, asset owners and managers, and many stakeholders. The ESG framework or approach considers environmental issues and impacts, the company’s positioning and actions on social/societal issues, and important aspects of corporate governance. ESG key performance indicators are considered by investors as proxies for effective governance and management. Increasing numbers of of independent research and financial analysis firms monitor and measure these and advisie investors. The Sustainability HQ™ platform is an important profiling and monitoring resource for the G&A team, and for our clients and subscribers. ESG market players and corporate reputation influencers are profiled and monitored by G&A Institute. In these Highlights we provide some results of our continuous global scanning for ESG, sustainability and corporate responsibility news.. The Associated Profiles indicated are in our platforms. For more information, please email us at info@sustainabilityhq.com _______________________________
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US state pension assets rose 16 pct in 2011-report
(Tuesday - March 06, 2012)
Source: Reuters - A strong global stock market boosted U.S. state pension fund assets by 16.4 percent in fiscal 2011, narrowing funding gaps that burst open after the financial crisis in 2008 , Wilshire Consulting said in a report made public on... Judge overturns AZ pension law change
(Monday - March 05, 2012)Associated Profiles : Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS)
Source: ABC TV 15 - The law increased the contributions state employees must make to their pension from 50 percent to 53 percent.
Watching the Watchers
 Pesticide Action Network North America
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Established: 1982 OVERVIEW / MISSION
The Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA) writes that its work focuses on replacing traditional pesticide use with “ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.” Based in the USA, PANNA is one of five autonomous PAN Regional Centers worldwide that link "local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network." Reason for being: “This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society." News Sweeps Methyl Iodide: The Cancer-Causing Chemical Behind Your Food
(Thursday - January 19, 2012)Associated Profiles : Pesticide Action Network North America - The Atlantic - Despite protests, the EPA approved the use of this potent poison years ago, but a lawsuit moving through the courts could change that. AGRICULTURE: Farmers slow to adopt controversial pesticide
(Sunday - December 18, 2011)Associated Profiles : Pesticide Action Network North America - North County Times - A year after environmentalists lost a regulatory battle to keep the controversial pesticide methyl iodide off the California market, they appear to be winning the ground war against the... [more] Calif. farmers slow to adopt controversial pesticide
(Wednesday - December 14, 2011)Associated Profiles : Pesticide Action Network North America - News10 Sacramento - A year after environmentalists lost a regulatory battle to keep the controversial pesticide methyl iodide off the California market, they appear to be winning the ground war against... [more] |
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