Last year, the Governance & Accountability Institute reported that the percentage of S&P 500 companies preparing sustainability reports increased from just under 20% to 86% between 2011 and 2018.

The IWG, a two-year taskforce formed in early 2020, brings together many of the world leading innovators and practitioners in the area of risk management, decision science, and integrated reporting. IWG members include: Hank... More updates >

While that represents an increase on last year, Canadian companies still lag large US companies: 90 percent of issuers in the S&P 500 have published a sustainability report this year, according to separate research from the... More updates >

The Russell 1000 index tracks some of the U.S. companies with the largest market capitalization. Only 34% of companies with the smallest market capitalization on the index released a sustainability report in 2018, compared with a... More updates >

According to the Governance & Accountability Institute research results, during 2018, 86% of S&P 500 companies published a sustainability/responsibility report, up from 20% in 2011. I’m hopeful more will follow suit.