Impact stat: 92% of S&P 500 companies published a sustainability report in 2020, according to the Governance & Accountability Institute.

One report found that 70 percent of companies in the Russell 1000 Index published sustainability reports in 2020 using various third-party standards, which include information about climate risks. SEC staff, in reviewing nearly... More updates >

Gensler cited a report that found 65% of Russell 1000 companies published "sustainability reports" in 2019. But the report, by the Governance & Accountability Institute, found only around half of companies in some sectors like... More updates >

A key data point underscoring the need for reliability and robustness is that of the roughly 92 percent of firms listed in the S&P 500 that publish sustainability reports, "less than 40 percent of those have any audit or... More updates >

According to the Governance & Accountability Institute, the proportion of S&P 500 firms reporting their ESG performance surged from under 20% in 2011 to 90% by 2019. And the contents of their ESG reports have grown drastically... More updates >