Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
The Hidden Story of Climate Proposals in the 2018 Proxy Season
The 2017 proxy season offered some indelible headlines on climate-related shareholder action: majority votes at ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and PPL Corporation; the first-ever votes in favor of climate shareholder proposals by major investors BlackRock and Vanguard; and the much-anticipated release of initial 2-degree scenario analyses from North American oil and gas and electric power companies. This year’s narrative is more subtle, but potentially more powerful.
Ceres
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
You Didn’t Learn This in Business School
Few of today’s CEOs earned their job because they were socially responsible and spoke out on hot topics. Yet key stakeholders increasingly want to know where companies and CEOs stand on critical social issues. It might be argued that speaking out is becoming a 21st-century requirement for the leaders of major companies. Data confirms a shift in expectations from the public: research from Weber Shandwick indicates that 47% of Millennials believe CEOs have a responsibility to speak up about issues that are important to society [emphasis added].
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP)
AI & Technology
AI & Technology
Three Ways IBM Is Using Technology to Serve the Public Good
Technologies like AI, blockchain, and cloud are enabling us to make significant progress on many thorny social challenges. But without thoughtful stewardship about how these powerful new technologies are designed, developed and brought into the world, they can also be disruptive in a negative way. Companies that are leading the way in developing new technologies must also lead the way in ensuring they are secure, trustworthy, fair, and benefit all people.
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP)
Education & Workforce Development
Education & Workforce Development
In Partnership With National Geographic, the Breakthrough Junior Challenge 2018 Is Now Open for Submissions!
National Geographic has joined forces with the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an annual global competition for students, designed to inspire creative thinking about science.
21st Century Fox
Volunteering & Community
Volunteering & Community
GRO1000 Milestone Reached: Thousandth Garden to Connect Children With Benefits of Nature
Eight years ago, we set a goal to help create 1,000 community gardens and greenspaces and connect more people to the life-enhancing benefits of gardens and greenspaces. This May, we’ll realize that goal with the dedication of the thousandth GRO1000 garden in Columbus, Ohio.
ScottsMiracle-Gro
Environment
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Talk Walking
We recently set out to calculate our organizational carbon footprint for 2017 so that we could purchase carbon offsets and claim to be carbon-neutral in our operations. That probably sounds complicated…and yes, it is.
Ray C. Anderson Foundation
Environment
Environment
5 Steps to Reducing Utility Costs at Your Facilities
In assessing nearly 100 global facilities, the Antea Group team identified meaningful cost savings in every facility evaluated, without exception.
Antea Group
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
Investing Human Capital: A New Approach to Achieving the SDGs
The private sector has direct access to financial and human capital. With the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to provide a shared lexicon and to guide decision-making, the private sector can lead a global social movement ­– and corporations are in a unique position to leverage existing resources to help save the planet. Through IMPACT 2030, which provides the platform for investing these resources, the private sector can collaborate with other investors and measure the long-term return. But, what do we mean by “resources”? And how do we leverage these resources through IMPACT 2030 to get closer to achieving the SDGs?

Realized Worth
AI & Technology
AI & Technology
New Cameras Installed on SCE Telecom Tower to Monitor Wildfire Activity
The Orange County Fire Authority is now part of a growing number of fire agencies that use a high-tech approach to monitor wildfire activity. Recently, six cameras and a weather station were installed on a Southern California Edison telecommunications tower located on Santiago Peak, the highest point in Orange County.
Edison International
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
Activism: Help or Hindrance to Business?
For many people, the combination of activists and industry brings to mind images of protestors chanting while marching with signs and banners in front of a company’s store, headquarters or production facility. For others, it suggests the maneuverings of shareholder activists—equity stakeholders using their investments to pressure a company’s management into some form of policy change. What it might not evoke is visions of support, cooperation or collaboration.
University of Michigan: Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability

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