…which provides additional information on PMI’s approach to sustainability. Materiality is obviously a foundational concept in integrated reporting. [1] PMI explains the process to determine its most material sustainability…
…of frameworks and organizations setting standards relevant to sustainability with the result being literally hundreds of metrics on which companies could report. He noted that “The time has come for convergence for the benefit of…
The Biden Administration is wasting no time in building up its economic team. Close watchers of his moves should be encouraged by one pick: Heather Boushey as a member of his Council of Economic Advisers. Boushey is a co-founder of the…
…stakeholders will suddenly have a much clearer view of a company’s sustainability performance—just as they do its financial performance. While most companies today issue sustainability reports, these are divorced from their financial…
…Board (CDSB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), guide the overwhelming majority of ESG disclosure and the International integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) provides…
On September 22, 2020 the report “COVID-19 and Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose” by KKS Advisors and the Test of Corporate Purpose (TCP) initiative was published. TCP was founded by Mark Tulay. I co-chaired this effort with Hiro…
…environmental, social, and governance issues developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). These scores were based on the SASB issues relevant to each topic and weighted based on their relevance to each issue.
“Our purpose at Newton is—and has been since our founding in 1978—to improve people’s lives through active, thematic and engaged investment which allows our clients to meet their objectives, and helps foster a healthy and vibrant world for…
…companies get on this list, and many of them are self-labeled as “sustainability report” or “summary report.” Common reasons given by US companies as to why they don’t want to practice integrated reporting are that investors don’t care…
Much attention has been paid to measuring companies’ impact on the environment. But when it comes to impacts on people, there has been far less scrutiny, standardization, and innovation in the data used to evaluate which businesses are…
The United Nations, with support from K+S and the macondo foundation, has recently published the latest edition of its annual Global Goals Yearbook with the theme being “Planet under Pressure.” The opening quote from UN Secretary-General…
The Enacting Purpose Initiative (EPI) is a multi-institution partnership between the University of Oxford; the University of California, Berkeley; BrightHouse (a BCG company); the British Academy; Federated Hermes EOS; and Wachtell,…
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