Archive

  • Investors, companies speaking different languages on ESG issues

    29 April 2010

    Industry sectors need to agree standardised environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics as a vital first step in addressing "communication gaps" between investors and companies on ESG issues, according to a UN report.

  • Barclays blows carbon, energy targets

    22 April 2010

    Barclays is set to miss by a wide margin its three-year internal carbon and energy reduction targets, after acquisitions and divestments meant it was adrift from its 2009 per head emissions goal by 33 percentage points.

  • Vodafone tops sustainability reporting poll

    22 April 2010

    Vodafone Group has won the 'best report' category in this year's CR Reporting Awards for the third year in a row. The telecoms company, a staple of sustainable equity indexes, polled around 100 votes more than the runner-up, BP.

  • Green products account for one-third of Philips' sales

    08 April 2010

    'Green' products generated €7.1 billion ($9.4 billion), or 31% of total sales, for Dutch electronics giant Philips last year.

  • Why investors should look for carbon assurance

    01 April 2010

    Large listed companies are not providing sufficiently credible carbon data. Investors should look at assurance more closely, say Esther Rodriguez and Elizabeth Mattiuzzi

  • Championing sustainability reporting

    01 April 2010

    Poor ESG disclosure is proving a drag on responsible investment into emerging markets. Lauren Compere, Mike Lombardo and Peter DeSimone explain how an investor initiative is aiming to improve reporting

  • Regulation 'no solution' to sustainability reporting drawbacks

    25 March 2010

    Mandatory reporting is not the right solution for shortcomings in voluntary corporate sustainability reports, experts said this week.

  • Waste collection and recycling market worth €300bn – report

    17 March 2010

    The world market for waste, from collection to recycling, is worth about €300 billion ($410 billion) a year, according to a report commissioned by environmental services firm Veolia.

  • The SEC sharpens its focus

    01 March 2010

    Recent guidance from the SEC on climate change disclosure will have far-reaching implications for how companies collect, analyse and report climate-change information, say Don Frost, Jane Kroesche and William Thomas

  • 30+ carbon footprint guidelines baffle companies

    25 February 2010

    Companies are struggling to comprehend the thirty-odd number of guidelines for reporting their carbon footprints.