sustainability
RBS sustainability report shows deliberate manipulation of truth by the state-owned bank
Commenting on an RBS sustainability report published last week (10th April 2013), Paul Daly, Corporate Accountability Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “One third of RBS energy lending still goes to climate-trashing projects. The report looks solely at project funding, which excludes loans to companies involved in tar sands, or corporations who get coal […]
Companies profit from embracing sustainability
Study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group indicates more companies are profiting with sustainable business models. The percentage of companies reporting a profit from their sustainability efforts rose 23 percent last year, to 37 percent, according to the most recent global study by the MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR) and […]
Our credibility principles
ISEAL is leading a global consultation to generate consensus on a set of Credibility Principles that represent the core values upon which effective standards are built. The Credibility Principles will be an international reference for discussions centred on credibility in sustainability standards and will improve effectiveness so that sustainability standards will adopt good practice. Give […]
Investors pressurise Smucker into sustainability goals
JM Smucker has bowed to investor pressure to assess and improve its climate risk disclosure and sustainability efforts, but more work still needs to be done, investors said. Investors Calvert Investment Management and Trillium Asset Management withdrew a shareholder resolution after the Ohio-based food and beverage company agreed to take certain steps to ensure the […]
Kiernan hires Clements-Hunt to push sustainability fund to BRICs
Sustainable investment pioneer Matthew Kiernan has teamed up with Paul Clements-Hunt, the former head of the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative, to help raise money from wealthy families in the ‘BRIC’ countries. Kiernan founded asset management firm Inflection Point Capital Management (IPCM) in 2010 after selling Innovest Strategic Value Advisers – the investment research firm […]
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