Sustainable Investment

Finland-based e-commerce network Tapp Commerce Oy has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), with a commitment to integrate 500,000+ micro-entrepreneurs into its value chain and provide 10 million low-income consumers with access to mobile payments for services such as water, electricity and insurance by 2018.

Animal welfare is an increasingly important CSR issue and it’s just moved even more to the center of the corporate conversation on the topic.

New alliance combines solar mount innovator Schletter Inc. and subsidiary of global engineering and construction company Black & Veatch to serve growing solar PV market.

Asahi Kasei, one of Japan’s leading manufactures of fiber products and chemicals, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), committing to enhance the skills and productivity of 5,240 employees in the cupro fiber industry, and develop the capacity of 700 young people – especially women – to lead the industry in the future. With its focus on sustainable livelihoods for women and youth, Asahi Kasei is dedicated to building an inclusive cupro-fiber value chain in India by 2020.

The CEO Force for Good will convene the 2016 CECP Summit: The New Competitive Advantage, bringing together leading practitioners in the field of corporate societal engagement to share powerful insights on trends and the business case to advance companies’ role in solving global challenges. CECP is a coalition of more than 200 companies and CEOs united in the belief that societal improvement is an essential measure of business performance.

On climate change: Urgency. Not panic, but a healthy sense of urgency. That’s what we need.

Sustainability is increasingly important for investors, as evidence mounts that companies' environmental, social, and governance performance has an impact on long-term financial success.

BCG’s seventh sustainability report in collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review found that 75% of senior executives in investment firms see a company’s sustainability performance as materially important to their investment decisions—and nearly half would not invest in a company with a poor sustainability track record.

Wildlife Haven, a charity that has been rehabilitating injured, sick and orphaned wildlife from Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario since 1984, has seen a particularly high number of snowy owls come into its volunteers’ care at the end of 2015.
More than 1,700 wild animals are cared for at Wildlife Haven every year — these can include anything from owls, eagles and ducklings to foxes, raccoons and beavers.