The Capital Institute is offering a second edition of its online course, “Introduction to Regenerative Economics.” The aim of this course is to provide a living systems approach to redesigning our economy so that long-term prosperity, human dignity, social equity, and planetary wellness can be viably sustained throughout the world. This 8-week course beginning on […]
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UN Global Compact and Five Partner Organizations Ring the Bell for Gender Equality at 75 Stock Exchanges Globally
For the sixth consecutive year, a global collaboration across 75 exchanges (confirmed events as of 26 February 2020) around the world plan to ring opening or closing bells to celebrate International Women’s Day 2020 (Sunday 8 March 2020). The events — which start on Monday 2 March, and will last for two weeks – are […]
Pushing Beyond The Ordinary in Corporate Social Responsibility
We believe that over the next 10 years, effective CSR initiatives of purpose-driven companies will be characterized by three principles: business alignment, user-centricity and co-creation. Corporate social responsibility—the practice of companies holding themselves accountable to serve a social purpose and make a positive impact—was not always the main focus of business leaders. Channel some profits […]
Getting Serious About SASB: Company Boards, Execs and Their Investors Are Tuning In. What About Accounting Firms?
The importance of the work over the recent years of the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board in developing industry-specific ESG disclosure recommendations was underscored with the recent letters to company leadership from two of the world’s leading asset management firms. Corporate boards and/or executive teams received two important letters in January that included strong advice about […]
Should universities abruptly divest from fossil fuel industry stocks?
The increasingly charged and polarized politics surrounding the climate crisis have asset managers between a rock and a hard place when considering their investment strategy. Should they abruptly divest from stocks of fossil fuel industries? Should they progressively withdraw? Complete divestment from carbon-intensive industries has become a popular strategy internationally, and institutional funds—including, most recently, […]
IBM Named Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel
International Business Machines has been named a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel, signifying a stock with above-average ”DividendRank” statistics including a strong 4.2% yield, as well as being recognized by prominent asset managers as being a socially responsible investment, through analysis of social and environmental criteria. Environmental criteria include considerations like the environmental impact […]
CECP Launches Innovation Partnerships
NEW YORK, February 20, 2020 /3BL Media/–Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) announces Innovation Partnerships, a new model of collaboration designed to support how companies use their corporate social investment data for greater impact. Companies using software from CECP’s Innovation Partners – Benevity and YourCause, a part of Blackbaud – will have access to a standard […]
The ultimate guide to responsible investing
When it comes to investing for most people, the goal is to make money, not save the world. Nevertheless, sustainable or responsible investing (whichever term you prefer) has hit the big-time, particularly around the theme of climate change. Michael Baldinger, head of impact investing at UBS wealth management, which manages more than US$4 trillion in […]
Who Is the “Best Of” of Sustainable Companies in the Important Annual Rankings? Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – What Reflection for Our Company?
Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the most sustainable company of them all? That memorable line from the Walt Disney Studios’ 1930s classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is being regularly applied now by a widening range of third party players in examining the performance and achievements of U.S., North American and global companies (and […]
As SEC curtails shareholder activism, big institutional investors must act
The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is trying to change the rules that govern shareholder proposals and sustainable finance luminaries are pushing back. In November, the independent federal government agency whose stated mission is to “protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation” announced that it would be toughening the rules surrounding […]
Transparency That Drives Impact – Where Next for GRI
GRI continues to deliver the most effective global sustainability standards, while it is focused on doing even more to support companies to provide high quality, accessible and impactful reporting. That was a key message from Jack Ehnes – Vice Chair of the GRI Board, and CEO of CalSTRS (California State Teachers’ Retirement System) – as […]
Dear Larry Fink: It’s Time to Turn Your Words into Actions ~ Worth
If BlackRock shows true leadership on climate change, the whole world will follow. Larry Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, poses for a picture. Photo by Jonathan Wong / South China Morning Post via Getty Images Originally published by Worth, Authored by Garvin Jabusch The world’s largest asset manager, in the person of […]
Towards Aware and Values-Centered Investing Course
Money Quotient University is pleased to offer “Towards Aware and Values-Centered Investing” to a new group of students. This ten-week, five-session course is scheduled to begin on Monday, February 10, 2020. Purpose To help financial planners gain an understanding of investment options and tools that are available to help clients truly align their financial and life […]
Corporate Accountability at Davos a ‘Step in Right Direction’
January 22, 2020 /3BL Media/ – With global leaders gathered in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF), GRI is pressing for action and commitments that support the transition to sustainable and responsible business. GRI chief executive Tim Mohin is participating in the WEF annual meeting in Davos this week. That includes a strategy session […]
What It Means When the World’s Largest Asset Manager Rings a Warning Bell About the Financial Risks of Climate Change
BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, in his annual letter released this week to CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies wrote: “I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.” I agree. The actions he promises in his new letter on sustainable investing and climate risk are significant and will contribute […]
Facebook – Another Moral Dilemma
A Pew Research study revealed that social media is king when it comes to the news. In the US, 72 percent of millennials read the news via their Facebook, Twitter feed, and other social networking sites. Only 21 percent of people aged 50+ do the same. The older generation predominantly consumes news via their television. […]
Refugee Camps Rely on Renewables
Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp made the switch to clean energy in November 2017 with the inauguration of the largest solar power plant ever built in a refugee setting. (Photo by Yousef Al Hariri courtesy UNHCR) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, January 9, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – In Iraq, displaced […]
BlackRock CEO Letter on Sustainable Investing Is a Game Changer for the Global Investor and Corporate Community
BOSTON, January 14, 2020 /3BL Media/ – CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter released today announcing that sustainability is at the center of BlackRock’s investment practices is a major turning point for the world’s largest asset manager, representing nearly $7 trillion in assets under management, Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber said. Fink’s assertion that sustainable funds […]
Hello to Year 2020 and the Start of the Third Decade of the 21st Century – Climate! Climate! Climate! is The Dominant Theme of News & Commentary!
It is a favorite pursuit of journalists and commentators at each year-end and the start of the new calendar year to look back and look forward to identify “top stories” and significant trends of the year past. And to look ahead at “what might be” in the new year. We present a few of these […]
Purpose – It Was the Buzzword of 2019 for The Corporate Sector & Investment Community. The Debate Will Continue in 2020
The year 2019 began with an important challenge to corporate leaders from Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock (with more than US$6 trillion in AUM). He writes each year to the CEOs of companies that his firm invests in on behalf of the firm’s clients. There are literally hundreds […]
‘Cheaper than plywood’ solar, bargain EVs and youth rising round out 2019
As the curtain closes on 2019, we take a look back at which stories resonated the most with readers in a year when we joined forces with hundreds of other news outlets around the planet to ramp up media coverage of the climate crisis. As always, Corporate Knights is committed to drawing sustainable solutions into […]
Pioneers Post’s top ten: Your 2019 cheat sheet for social enterprise and impact investment
This year we’ve covered everything from a transgender beauty salon in Pakistan, to Ethiopia’s first domestic drone manufacturer. Get up to speed with our most popular social enterprise and impact investment stories of the year. The full and original article can be viewed on Pioneers Post (PioneersPost.com) Visit the Invest With Values – Resource Directory to access […]
Outlook 2020: Sustainable Investing & Stakeholder Capitalism
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in the investment world today about the meaning of sustainable investing. Most asset managers have some sort of ESG initiative underway but they struggle to define it and why they’re doing it. Advisors want to offer it to clients but are often unsure how to talk about it. End investors […]
Research from Trillium and Impact-Cubed Declares It’s Time to Divest from Guns
While Americans are clearly fed up with gun violence and a political solution remains out of reach, there exists a potentially important avenue for progress that is within reach – finance. The retirement assets of millions of Americans continue to be invested in gun companies, largely through passive pension funds and mutual funds that track […]
Sustainable Investing Has Moved Into the Mainstream — and UBS Survey Results Send Strong Signals This is a Lasting Trend
There is no doubt now — the world’s largest asset managers are definitely focused on corporate sustainability and sustainable investing (the two go hand-in-hand) as survey after survey is telling us. In recent years we seen considerable momentum as asset owners and their managers adopt or further enhance their sustainable investing / ESG investing approaches. And to […]
ESG Is Good for Business: Companies Need to Let the World Know Through Their Actions
I am among the many engaged investors who welcomed the statement by the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies, redefining the purpose of a corporation to promote “An Economy That Serves All Americans.” They committed to: deliver value to customers; invest in employees; deal fairly and ethically with suppliers; […]
Record 631 Institutional Investors Managing More Than $37 Trillion in Assets Urge Governments to Step up Ambition to Tackle Global Climate Crisis
631 institutional investors managing more than $37 trillion in assets urged governments to step up efforts to tackle the global climate crisis and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, in a joint statement issued today at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP25). The Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change, developed by the […]
How Positive “Impact Bonds” Build on Strong Foundations
Praxis Mutual Fund shareholders expect us to invest with their values in mind. The Praxis Impact Bond Fund turned 25 this year and through the first half of the fund’s tenure we diligently focused on screening out holdings contrary to those shared values. In 2006, our eyes were opened by a public bond offering that […]
Canada’s second largest pension fund gets deadly serious about climate crisis
As world leaders converge at this week’s climate summit in Madrid to debate how best to shift to a net zero-economy, Michael Sabia is leaving the helm of Canada’s second-largest pension plan having firmly placed Quebec’s retirement savings at the forefront of the global movement for low-carbon investing. Sabia, who recently announced he’s stepping down […]
Tax Transparency: The Time for Change is Now
On 3 April 2016, the world woke up to revelations in the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper laying bare the murky use of offshore financial services and shell companies, which some individuals and companies were using to minimize their tax liabilities. The Panama Papers, as the multi-country investigation became known, provided sensational stories involving politicians, rock stars […]
Ceres CEO and President Tapped to Serve on U.S. Federal Advisory Committee Focused on Tackling Climate-Related Risks in Capital Markets
November 19, 2019 /3BL Media/ – Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber has been appointed to the first-ever U.S. federal advisory committee focused on addressing the short and long-term financial and market risks posed by climate change to capital markets and throughout the broader economy. Lubber was appointed to the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of […]
NALCAB, LiftFund and Wells Fargo Announce Launch of Largest National Loan Fund for the Growth of Latino-Owned Small Businesses
The Wells Fargo Foundation has made a historic $10 million grant to NALCAB — National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders — to support growth-oriented lending to minority-owned businesses nationwide through a network of Latino-led nonprofit business lenders. The new Acceso Loan Fund is designed to help diverse entrepreneurs scale to a greater size — expanding their revenue, impact […]
United Nations network signs landmark impact investing agreement
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) have agreed a joint plan to focus capital and solutions towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). GSG will work in tandem with SDG Impact, a UNDP initiative that accelerates progress towards the SDGs through adoption of global SDG Assurance Standards that provide guidance on […]
Second Sustainable Finance Week Convened by Bloomberg to Accelerate the Next $10 Trillion of Sustainable Investment
The second annual Sustainable Finance Week convened by Bloomberg will expand beyond events in New York to Toronto this year. Taking place during the first week of December, Sustainable Finance Week (SFW) conversations in both cities will focus on how we accelerate the mobilization of the next $10 trillion in sustainable investment. With over $30 trillion of […]
Which of these mining companies will survive the transition away from coal?
Coal mines are in trouble. Investors continue to flee the sector, while once-giant companies like Murray Energy are declaring bankruptcy. With the coal mining sector on the ropes, now is a great time to pit two of the largest companies — Glencore and BHP Group — against each other to see who is leading the […]
Statement of Jonas Kron, SVP, Trillium Asset Management on SEC Open Meeting Regarding Shareholder Proposal Process 11/5/2019
November 5th, 2019—For over 70 years, the shareholder proposal rule has served main street investors, companies, and the public well. It has promoted and supported a marketplace of ideas that has harnessed the innovations and perspectives of small investors to the benefit of companies, workers, communities, the environment, and our economy. It has also served […]
Business schools up the grade on sustainability
There have been some promising signs of progress in business education of late. Special issues of top-tier academic journals are being devoted to sustainability and the climate crisis. New core and elective business-school courses are exploring United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. More scholars interested in sustainability are being hired. Much heavy lifting remains, […]
Fires in the Amazon: Why Investors Are Calling on Companies to Help End Deforestation
Images of the Amazon rainforests engulfed by smoke and flames that spread across the globe in recent months were a clear signal about the growing urgency to tackle devastating deforestation. The ongoing destruction reminded us of the need to ensure that we all do our part to protect the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. Tropical […]
Ceres Launches New Center to Accelerate Efforts to Transform Capital Markets and Drive Wholesale Action on Climate Crisis
October 21, 2019 /3BL Media/ – The nonprofit organization Ceres announced today it is launching a new multi-million dollar center to ramp up efforts to transform the practices and policies that govern capital markets in order to accelerate wholesale action on reducing the worst financial impacts of the global climate crisis and other sustainability threats. […]
Benevity Announces $40M in Series C Funding From General Atlantic and JMI Equity
Benevity, Inc., the global leader in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee engagement software, today announced that the company has raised $40M in Series C Funding from General Atlantic and JMI Equity. The investment will support the continued innovation of Benevity’s scalable ‘corporate Goodness’ platform and best-in-class service, which helps many of today’s most iconic companies […]
Trillium Celebrates 20 Years of Fossil Fuel Free Investing
Trillium is among the oldest investment advisory firms exclusively focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing with over 35 years of experience. Environmental responsibility has been, and remains, a key focus at Trillium. Trillium’s Global Equity strategy, one of the Firm’s three Fossil Fuel Free investment strategies, has begun celebrating its 20th anniversary year. […]
Global Investors for Sustainable Development
A New Alliance: Global Investors for Sustainable Development By Sunny Lewis The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were featured on billboards in New York City’s Times Square to promote the #SDGs-related events that happened during the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, September 19, 2019, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs via Twitter […]
Powering Purposeful Growth: Discover Meaning in Work & Life
Do you ever wonder how you can support the growing consensus that business is a force for good? Inspiring Capital is on a mission to re-inspire the American workforce. Based on 10,000+ hours of experience with 200+ diverse professionals, they’ve created their first eLearning course: Powering Purposeful Growth: Discover Meaning in Work & Life Invest […]
Capitalism – Needing Reinventing? Is Corporate Sustainability/Responsibility/Citizenship’s Focus on ESG Part of the Mix of Reinvention?
There are many voices raised now and joining in the public dialogues on corporate sustainability, citizenship, responsibility, ethics, governance…and more. These fit into the commentary stream on the future of capitalism — and how to make it work for everyone. There are rigorous companion dialogues – rapidly growing in number — related to the role of sustainable investing […]
United Nations Global Compact Issues New Guidance for Private Sector to Grow Sustainability Through Investments in Emerging and Frontier Markets
The United Nations Global Compact has issued new guidance for companies on advancing sustainable development through investments in emerging and frontier markets to leverage private finance to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Released at the SDG Investment Forum hosted by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as part of its ESG Investor Showcase, the publication — Scaling Finance […]
Record 515 Institutional Investors Managing $35 Trillion in Assets Urge Governments to Step up Ambition to Tackle Climate Change
Ahead of next week’s United Nations Climate Action Summit, a record 515 institutional investors managing $35 trillion in assets urged governments worldwide to step up action to tackle climate change and achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals. The Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change, developed by the seven Founding Partners of The Investor Agenda, calls […]
The DJSI – Pioneers in ESG/Sustainable Investing Indexes, Celebrates 20 Years of Industry Leadership and Partnership of RobecoSAM and S&P Global Dow Jones
G&A’s Sustainability Highlights (9.27.2019) ESG equity indexes are certainly all the buzz these days as many more institutional and retail investors are embracing sustainable investing and directing their investment dollars toward existing and new index families that qualify (or purport to qualify) as a suitable ESG/sustainable investment. Of note, Morgan Stanley Institute reports that its […]
Whirlpool Corporation Named to 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index
October 1, 2019 /3BL Media/ Whirlpool Corporation is among a distinguished group of companies included on the 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) North America Index – a recognition of its longstanding commitment to sustainable business practices. This is not the home appliance manufacturer’s first appearance on the annual index. In fact, Whirlpool Corporation has […]
Chris Martenson: Dow Obsession Syndrome
The Dow Jones Industrial Average. What does this omnipresent ticker in the corner of our TV screens really mean? Is it a gauge of our country’s economic health, an indication of corporate growth, or something else? This week on Sea Change Radio, we discuss the Dow and the stock market as a whole with economic […]
Don’t Miss Sustainable Investing’s Biggest Annual Awards
For three decades, The SRI Conference & Community has hosted sustainable, responsible, impact investing practitioners to examine the current state of the industry, and to celebrate achievements in academic research, marketing and individual contributions to the SRI field. In 2019, The 30th Annual SRI Conference will present these major industry awards: The Moskowitz Prize, The […]
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