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October 7, 2014

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Recent Research Conducted by the Governance & Accountability Institute Attempts to Answer Important Questions for Company Management

In the months of October, November and December each week we will be releasing the top 10 GRI sustainability aspects from three different sectors. The results are based on G&A's "Sustainability - What Matters?" analysis of 1,246 sustainability reports, across 35 sectors, for their level of disclosure around 84 GRI Performance Indicators, and 37 GRI Aspects.

Last week we released the Top 10 GRI Sustainability Aspects for the Agriculture, Automotive, and Aviation sectors. We list them here for your ease of access.

Top 10 GRI Sustainability Aspects for the Agriculture Sector
Sustainability – What Matters in the Agriculture Sector?

Top 10 GRI Sustainability Aspects for the Automotive Sector
Sustainability – What Matters in the Automotive Sector?

Top 10 GRI Sustainability Aspects for the Aviation Sector
Sustainability – What Matters in the Aviation Sector?


 

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G&A Institute Sustainability Update
Informative, insightful, thought provoking
The Governance & Accountability Instituteblog focusing on the sustainable world evolving daily before our eyes.  Read it, absorb it, question it and challenge.
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Insights & perspectives for your sustainable journey...

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Governance & Accountability Institute Research Reports

 

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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. For a list of recently issued Sustainability reports please follow the links below:

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G&A's Sustainability Coaching, Team Building & Training
Getting everyone up-to-speed on ESG and Sustainability; understanding the complexity of ESG issues and frameworks; assembling the Corporate Sustainability team and preparing them for strategy-setting and program implementation. 
Learn more About G&A's Sustainability Coaching, Team Building & Training

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Corporate ESG Performance Factors & SustainabilityHQ

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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For more on:
ESG & Sustainability Players
- Shaping Perceptions, Valuations & Decision-Making

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs)
- State-Owned Global Investors

US Public Sector Investors 
- State and Municipal Retirement Funds

Asset Managers
- Investors adopting ESG guidelines / policies & shaping market trends

Navigating the way to sustainability...
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New Online Materiality Mapping Tool to Help Corporate Responsibility / Sustainability Reporters
Convetit Embeds Materiality Mapping Tool Into Virtual Stakeholder Engagement ThinkTanks. G&A Institute Data Sets Available As Important Element of the Tool.

Top Story of the Week

What Gets the Worst Marketing ROI? Your Corporate Social Responsibility Report
(Monday - September 29, 2014)
Source: Advertising Age - Despite the considerable efforts that corporations put into reporting their social and environmental performance, readership is low and believability is even lower. Today, the notion that corporations have a trustworthy...

Sustainability in Focus

A sustainable future is now in reach
(Wednesday - October 01, 2014) Associated Profiles : TruCost
Source: theguardian.com - Organizations such as Trucost are now helping a growing spectrum of companies come to grips with the new agenda, as they have done with Puma and its parent company Kering. This is the challenge...

GALLERY: Top 10 sustainability stories in September 2014
(Wednesday - October 01, 2014) Associated Profiles : World Water Week
Source: Edie - From in-depth analysis of the UN Climate Summit and Scotland’s NO vote to one of the most interesting solar installations the world has ever seen â plus a couple of advisory articles released in line with...

Sustainability has private benefits
(Wednesday - October 01, 2014)
Source: Albuquerque Journal - Sustainability is a big word. It is a popular concept but it is also greatly misunderstood. Most people see it as an issue of the environment alone. However, sustainability is more than that. The many definitions and...

Sustainability Manager Hiring: Look for these Key Traits
(Wednesday - October 01, 2014)
Source: Environmental Leader - Strong communication is one of the most important assets for executives working in the realm of sustainability and environmental management, some educators and business executives agree. “At a management level, skill at...

Taking real steps toward sustainability
(Wednesday - October 01, 2014)
Source: Jackson Hole News & Guide - “Sustainability” has been a buzzword for at least the past two decades, a fuzzy term that seems to refer to just about anything a person, group or government agency does that is perceived as good for the environment.

 Sustainability and the Concept of a 'Circular Economy'
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : World Economic Forum
Source:  The Energy Collective - In an article for the World Economic Forum blog, Leo Schlesinger  CEO of MASISA Mexico  makes the argument for the concept of a regenerative circular...

5 Forces Impacting Retail Sustainability
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014)
Source: Environmental Leader - Evolving technology, changing supply chain models and consumers empowered with information on retailers’ business practices are each impacting retail and changing long-established standards in the industry.

Sustainable waters - Iceland leads way
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Source: Japan Today - The quota is based on fish stocks and an assessment made by Icelandic authorities, research institutes, and in cooperation with the FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations] that...

At UN debate, African leaders say global sustainability agenda must reflect local realities
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014)
Source: UN.org - With a new sustainable development agenda as the focus of this year’s annual General Assembly debate, African leaders today called on the United Nations to take into consideration the continent’s specific realities and...

Why Is Goldman Sachs Advocating For Sustainability?
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014)
Source: Fastcoexist.com - One of the most persuasive arguments for increasing a company’s social and environmental performance is that it will save money, enhance profitability, and generate more business value. Curiously, it is not the Sierra Club...

Survey: CEOs see opportunities within sustainability, but not immediate benefits
(Monday - September 29, 2014)
Source: Blue & Green Tomorrow - Two-thirds of global chief executives believe that businesses are not doing enough to address global sustainability challenges, according to a new UN report.

ESG Issues & Players

Wall Street’s Inner Sanctum
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014)
Source: Market Place - Many practitioners have taken the word “social” out of the acronym; it’s still SRI, but Socially Responsible Investing now stands for Sustainable, Responsible, Impact investing.

Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds

Public pensions face $2 trillion hole: Moody's
(Monday - September 29, 2014)
Source: CNBC - Despite recent gains on their investments, U.S. public pension funds don't have nearly enough money to pay what they owe current and future retirees. In less than a decade, that shortfall has tripled to at least $2...

Alaskan SWF Commits $250 Million to Infrastructure Vehicle
(Tuesday - September 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation
Source: swfinstitute.org - The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has made a US$ 250 million commitment to an infrastructure vehicle. [Content protected for Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Standard subscribers only....

Watching the Watchers

Global Sourcing Council
Headquarters: New York, NY
Established: 2007

ESG/Sustainability Focus: Yes, focused on sustainability and global sourcing

OVERVIEW/MISSION

The Global Sourcing Council
states that its mission is to "…promote an exchange of ideas and information among businesses, trade organizations, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and academia; to discuss and define practices in global sourcing; and to encourage progressive economic growth leading to increased trade, investment and social good, all with an aim to increase knowledge, deepen trade relations and broaden commercial and cultural ties among nations."

BACKGROUND

GSC was founded in 2007 and focuses largely on creating opportunities to discuss global sourcing and sustainability.

STRUCTURE

GSC calls itself a "voluntary, public-private initiative."

News Sweeps
Is your outsourcer an IT sweatshop'
(Monday - September 22, 2014) Associated Profiles : Global Sourcing Council
- ComputerworldUK - Bullen, a senior lecturer at Stevens Institute of Technology and president of the Global Sourcing Council, a non-profit professional organization. Here are some questions that Bullen and others...

IBM Turns Pains Into Gains: Transforming Travel Delivers Savings And Revenues
(Monday - September 22, 2014) Associated Profiles : Global Sourcing Council
- Business Travel News - IBM by next year expects to further advance its travel procurement and management program to be "integrated from end to end." The vision is to integrate traveler bookings made online or via mobile devices,...

Conference Guide 061713
(Tuesday - May 27, 2014) Associated Profiles : Global Sourcing Council
- Issuu - 6th Annual World BPO/ITO Forum Theme: Smartsourcing: Leveraging Collaboration & Innovation. The World BPO/ITO Forum brings both strategic and operational issues of global sourcing to the fore and provides solutions to...

SustainabilityHQ Highlights is prepared by the Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. based on continuous monitoring of trends and developments in Sustainability and ESG. The SustainabilityHQ platform is available by subscription.

Governance & Accountability Instiute is the “Sustainability Headquarters™” for clients in the corporate, investment, public and social sectors. Based in New York, G&A is a for-profit consulting organization providing a range of value-added strategies, services and resources related to ESG & sustainability to clients in the corporate and capital markets communities.The G&A services portfolio includes:
ESG Counseling, Strategies & Benchmarking | Competitive Benchmarking | Sustainability Coaching, Team Building & Training | Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility Reporting | ESG & CR Issues Monitoring & Research | Stakeholder Identification, Monitoring & Engagement | Awards & Recognitions Program | External Assurance

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