Dear Fellow Supporters of Integrated Reporting,
This e-mail is to notify you that the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has now issued provisional standards for all 10 sectors and 79 industries, to bring to your attention an article Georg Kell wrote in The Huffington Post about the Chinese company Good-Ark and one written by Alice Garton in the Sloan Management Review on the COP21 Paris Agreement, to inform you that Yara is the first company (to my knowledge) to publish a “Sustainable Value Matrix” by name, to elicit your support for a student-led initiative regarding “positive investments,” to provide you with summary results of a Japanese survey of companies and investors, and to give you a short personal update.
SASB Provisional Standards
Personal Update
Two things here.
First, I have joined the Board of the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) of the Stockholm School of Economics.
- The Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets is a cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder research center. Research is meant to be collaborative and draws on actors from academia, business and policy to understand and create research-based and business relevant solutions for sustainable markets.
- MISUM will draw on research collaborations both nationally and internationally and aims to be a national center of excellence embedded in an international context. To ensure international and business relevancy, MISUM features an international board with members drawn from both academia and the business community.
Second, I gave a talk, “An Update on the Integrated Reporting Movement,” in Montreal last Wednesday at a breakfast event organized by the
Finance and Sustainability Initiative. You can see a video of this talk. My deepest appreciation to Milla Craig of
Millani Perspectives and Anne-Josee Laquerre of
Aimia for organizing this event and a number of other ones that day in support of “The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality Campaign.”
Kind regards,
Bob
