Top Story of the Week Four Top Sustainability Reporting Trends for 2014
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: GreenBiz - At most companies, work on 2013 sustainability reports is well underway. But it's not too late to take stock and assess whether you're giving enough consideration to four major issues recently cited by Ernst & Young: materiality... Sustainability in Focus Is sustainability top of your agenda in 2014?
(Tuesday - February 18, 2014)
Source: C&IT - Sustainability – it’s either a buzzword or a meaningless catchphrase, depending on which side of the debate you come from. But, whether you knit your own muesli or you are a climate-change naysayer, nobody can deny that... Leith Sharp: Embracing “disruptive sustainability
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: McGill Reporter - As director, Sharp built the largest green campus organization in the world. The program’s efforts were funded largely by the savings it produced – the essence of sustainability. California rises in sustainability grades
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: UT San Diego - California greatly increased its ranking last year in the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification program, rising from ninth to fifth place. And San Diego County outperformed all top 10 states on a per-capita basis. Sustainability is now non-negotiable say delegates to the 2014 Sustainable Events Summit
(Wednesday - February 19, 2014)
Source: Event Industry News - Sustainability is part of a concept called trust and it’s for this reason people buy from us.” This quote from Speaker Dan Germain, Head of Creative at Innocent, sums up one of the over-riding reasons for embarking on the... Sustainable water funding remains high priority
(Thursday - February 20, 2014)
Source: Beatrice Daily Sun - Last year, the Legislature passed LB 517, which created the Nebraska Water Funding Task Force. I was appointed to serve on the task force, which met throughout the interim. The task force was to focus on the long-term. Ford and Nike use big data to make smarter sustainable design
(Thursday - February 20, 2014) Associated Profiles : Sustainable Apparel Coalition
- theguardian.com - Ford's global director of sustainability and vehicle environmental matters. "We wanted climate science to be our foundation to determine our CO2 targets for fuel economy from now into the next century," he... How to tell sustainability stories on social media
(Tuesday - February 18, 2014)
Source: The Guardian - Do you ever get the feeling you're having the same sustainability conversation over and over again with the same group of people? It's a sentiment I've heard a lot recently from sustainability professionals – the nagging feeling... McMillon challenges Wal-Mart and suppliers in ongoing sustainability push
(Tuesday - February 18, 2014)
Source: City Wire - In his first public forum as CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Doug McMillon challenged employees and suppliers to innovate, saying he would push the envelope in testing these new ideas that will drive the retailer’s future growth... ESG Issues & Players Offshore Wind Industry Slowed by Birds, Bombs, Sharks
(Thursday - February 20, 2014)
Source: Bloomberg - Birds, sharks and unexploded bombs from World War II are being blamed for holding up offshore wind farms, raising doubts about the costs of the technology. Three utilities yesterday scrapped an expansion of the world’s biggest... 5 reasons why climate change is back in the news
(Wednesday - February 19, 2014)
Source: CNN -- In the space of 48 hours, Secretary of State John Kerry likened climate change to a weapon of mass destruction, Newt Gingrich called Kerry delusional, Sunday talk shows argued about it and President Barack...
Institutional Investors Press Companies For Disclosure Of Lobbying In 2014
(Wednesday - February 19, 2014)
Source: Walden Asset Management - Investors have announced the filing of shareholder resolutions at 48 corporations as part of a 2014 proxy season initiative asking companies to annually report their federal and state lobbying. That includes any... Anything you can do, Icahn do better
(Tuesday - February 18, 2014)
Source: The Economist - TIM COOK’S nightmare is over, but John Donahoe’s has just begun. On February 10th Carl Icahn, the godfather of activist shareholders, ended his campaign to get Mr Cook, the boss of Apple, to return some of its $160 billion cash... Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds World economic recovery struggling to gain traction
(Thursday - February 20, 2014)
Source: Reuters - China's vast factory sector contracted again this month and the expected acceleration in euro zone business activity failed to materialize, highlighting the fragile state of a global economy. A survey out of China reinforced... Pension funds in NY to get greater scrutiny
(Thursday - February 20, 2014) Associated Profiles : New York City Comptroller’s Office: Bureau of Asset Management
Source: Politics on the Hudson (blog) - The letters went to the New York City pension fund, the state pension fund and the New York Teachers Retirement System. These are huge funds that provide for the retirement of... Libya vs Western Bankers
(Wednesday - February 12, 2014) Associated Profiles : Libyan Investment Authority
Source: aawsat.net - Late last month, Libya’s sovereign wealth fund sued the global investment bank Goldman Sachs at Londonâs High Court. It is alleged that the fund lost in excess of 1 billion US dollars in 2008 through poor... Watching the Watchers 
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- PR Inside - In April 2013, IKEA US signed CERES, a Climate Declaration, in coordination with BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy) with other major businesses -- a declaration to tackle climate...
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(Monday - January 13, 2014) Associated Profiles : Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy
- Grist - In other words, such analyses don’t actually measure sustainability. So what does a meaningful corporate sustainability program look like in the era of climate change' First, corporate leaders need to directly lobby... | Check It Out...
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