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Top Story of the Week If You Prepare Sustainability Reports – Or If You Are a Reader of Reports… …You will want to carefully read the Featured story this week. Experts share their views on how to read and analyze corporate sustainability reports that U.S. (and global) companies are now producing at record rates. We consider these among the top influentials in the corporate sustainability / CSR / ESG performance space. They are Marc Gunther (author of the piece, who writes his own blog, writer for Fortune since 1996, blogs for Greenbiz, and is now commentator for the new blog focused on the US from The Guardian); Steve Lydenberg, veteran investment professional with Domini Social Investments; and Bill Baue, prolific author and leader of Sustainability Context Group; he is also a Fellow of the G&A Institute). They provide five essential rules for reading sustainability reports. Corporate managers preparing sustainability reports (or planning to) will find valuable observations and tips from this very tuned-in audience for their reports. We found their views on what is in andnot in the reports they read to be very instructive, and we think that you will, too. Here at G&A Institute we analyze more than 500 reports each year as Data Partners for the Global Reporting Initiative. The “gaps” in U.S. corporate sustainability reports can be very wide, or, sometimes the gaps can be closed with a bit of effort. The coming of the fourth generation of the GRI guidelines (“G4”) will present challenges for corporate reporters who (as observed in the commentary) seem to be avoiding disclosure for important aspects of the business that readers of the reports – stakeholders – are interested in knowing more about. Examples are provided in this piece. You can search for U.S. corporate sustainability reports on G&A Institute’s web site feature at: www.ga-institute.com/reports As the exclusive data partner for the GRI in the United States, we can help you get started on the right path for reporting on your company’s sustainability journey, please see our services (outlined in this newsletter) – you can contact us for more information on how we can help you at www.ga-institute.com/services-portfolio.html How to Read a Sustainability Report: Five Tips Sustainability in Focus US receives mediocre ratings for energy sustainability Lehman anniversary: banking sustainability grows, but not enough Why sustainability indexes miss the mark Putting Sustainability to Work: Doing Well by Doing Good Sustainability and the great recession Is sustainability reaching a tipping point? Farm Group Launches Sustainability Tools for Specialty Crops 4 Challenges Every Sustainability Leader Faces The seven steps to corporate sustainability transformation ESG Issues & Players Is North America The Next World Capital Of Energy? U.N. panel says it's "extremely likely" global warming is predominantly man-made 30 years of making the business case for corporate responsibility Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds Fed Faces New Era of Thinking Global as Yellen Nomination Nears Sovereign Wealth Funds Look for Inside Edge by Managing Money In-house Pension Liabilities No Longer Hidden Watching the Watchers Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool KEY PARTNERS OVERVIEW/MISSION BACKGROUND News Sweeps Which are more energy-efficient and eco-friendly, laptops or PCs' Metals That Threaten Reputations
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