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The new and evolving metrics that are helping expand the way businesses create, quantify, manage and report their impacts – and the value they deliver

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ExxonMobil, Chevron Face Shareholder Pressure to Address Risk, Adopt New Reporting Metric
ExxonMobil, Chevron Face Shareholder Pressure to Address Risk, Adopt New Reporting Metric
Published on May 25, 2016
About a 6 minute read

Oil company shareholders are voting on resolutions today that propose to cut spending on opening new oilfields and change how they report reserves, among others. In Dallas, Texas, ExxonMobil shareholders are voting on four climate change-related reso... View More

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Inaugural CFP Report Benchmarks Progress, Best Practices in Chemical Management
Inaugural CFP Report Benchmarks Progress, Best Practices in Chemical Management
Published on May 20, 2016
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In the first initiative of its kind to publicly benchmark corporate chemicals management, the Chemical Footprint Project has published its inaugural report. The results provide valuable insights into how leading companies manage chemicals in their pr... View More

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Toyota, Ben & Jerry’s Among 155 Companies to Set Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets
Toyota, Ben & Jerry’s Among 155 Companies to Set Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets
Published on May 9, 2016
About a 2 minute read

Forty-one companies have joined the Science-Based Targets initiative since the COP21 climate negotiations in December. On the eve of the Climate Action Summit in Washington, D.C. last week, the initiative announced that a total of 155 companies have ... View More

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Sustainable Extravagance: Kering Calls for Collaboration to Change Paradigm in Luxury Goods
Sustainable Extravagance: Kering Calls for Collaboration to Change Paradigm in Luxury Goods
Published on May 6, 2016
About a 5 minute read

Luxury goods and responsible consumption need not be contradictory terms — that was the core takeaway from a livestream Q & A session held earlier this week by Kering, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of luxury apparel and home to bra... View More

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Beyond the SEC and Disclosure: Why Materiality Matters
Beyond the SEC and Disclosure: Why Materiality Matters
Published on April 29, 2016
About a 7 minute read

Materiality is murky – especially when it comes to sustainability. Reporting on material issues in the financial context has been legally required for decades and is widely understood. It is less widely understood – and not yet well applied – i... View More

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Oxfam: Big 10 Food Brands Must Walk Their Talk to Truly Boost Social Sustainability
Oxfam: Big 10 Food Brands Must Walk Their Talk to Truly Boost Social Sustainability
Published on April 19, 2016
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Nine of the “Big 10” global food and beverage companies - Associated British Foods (ABF), Coca-Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever - have improved their ratings by at least 10 percent in three years... View More

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How to Take the Pain Out of CSR Reporting
How to Take the Pain Out of CSR Reporting
Published on April 11, 2016
About a 7 minute read

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and other forms of sustainability reporting can be a painful process. Whether you’re a one-person sustainability, health and safety manager or your company has staff around the world who share reporting respons... View More

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G-Star, Ted Baker Lead Fashion Sustainability Disclosure with MADE-BY’s Revamped Scorecards
G-Star, Ted Baker Lead Fashion Sustainability Disclosure with MADE-BY’s Revamped Scorecards
Published on April 1, 2016
About a 4 minute read

Fashion brands’ sustainability performance has lacked independent verification and true transparency. European non-profit MADE-BY is hoping their ‘ground-breaking’ new tool, called MODE Tracker, will change that. ... View More

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Chris Hale: The Future of Impact Investing is About Measuring Impact
Chris Hale: The Future of Impact Investing is About Measuring Impact
Published on March 31, 2016
About a 7 minute read

That investing to make a positive impact as well as a dime has evolved considerably over the past few years has turned on its head a long-standing worldview that the sole purpose of business and investing is to make money, while solving social and en... View More

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True Materiality and Integral Thinking: Editor's Postlude
True Materiality and Integral Thinking: Editor's Postlude
Published on March 15, 2016
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It has been my pleasure to edit this tour-de-force 6-part series — now an e-book — by my colleague, Ralph Thurm, in which he lays out his vision for how integral thinking and true materiality can catalyze a regenerative and inclusive economy, lev... View More

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New Evidence Bolsters Claims of Connectivity Between CSR and Market Caps
New Evidence Bolsters Claims of Connectivity Between CSR and Market Caps
Published on March 7, 2016
About a 8 minute read

Last August, I published an article here in which I described what, to me, is the most compelling business case for corporate sustainability or CSR extant: the fact that it literally drives the market values of publicly traded firms up or down in mea... View More

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How Do We Assess Impact (and Why Should We)?
How Do We Assess Impact (and Why Should We)?
Published on March 3, 2016
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I recently attended the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 2nd Inclusive Business Forum for Asia in the Philippines, where I sat in on an engaging discussion on assessing the merits of impact investments. ... View More

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Integral Thinking and True Materiality Define Trust, Innovation, Resilience (Part 6)
Integral Thinking and True Materiality Define Trust, Innovation, Resilience (Part 6)
Published on March 2, 2016
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This is the final part of a 6-part series about integral thinking and true materiality. It proposes a new impetus to develop reporting that is able to serve the idea of a green & inclusive economy. ... View More

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How to Make a Material Impact on Your Company's Sustainability
How to Make a Material Impact on Your Company's Sustainability
Published on March 1, 2016
About a 8 minute read

Sustainability Rising It will come as no surprise to this community that sustainability has moved well beyond social and environmental responsibility circles to become a C-suite priority. The numbers give voice to the trend: ... View More

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Integral Thinking & True Materiality, Part 5: Scalability Opportunities Define the Size of Impact
Integral Thinking & True Materiality, Part 5: Scalability Opportunities Define the Size of Impact
Published on February 25, 2016
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This is part 5 of a 6-part series about integral thinking and true materiality. It proposes a new impetus to develop reporting that is able to serve the idea of a green & inclusive economy. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. ... View More

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Q&A: How the YK Center Is Pushing Forward the ‘New Economy’
Q&A: How the YK Center Is Pushing Forward the ‘New Economy’
Published on February 23, 2016
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That the future of profit is purpose is the modus operandi of the YK Center, a self-proclaimed “for-benefit organization” striving to push the needle on a more sustainable economy. ... View More

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Integral Thinking, Part 4: Defining Success Leads to True Value Creation
Integral Thinking, Part 4: Defining Success Leads to True Value Creation
Published on February 19, 2016
About a 12 minute read

This is part 4 of a 6-part series about integral thinking and true materiality. It proposes a new impetus to develop reporting that is able to serve the idea of a green & inclusive economy. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. ... View More

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What If 'Opposites' Aren't Really Opposite?: Part 19
What If 'Opposites' Aren't Really Opposite?: Part 19
Published on February 15, 2016
About a 9 minute read

In 18 earlier parts of this series, Claire Sommer, Jill Lipoti and I developed 37 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields (Find them here.). ... View More

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Integral Thinking and True Materiality, Part 3: Purpose Definition Defines Connectedness
Integral Thinking and True Materiality, Part 3: Purpose Definition Defines Connectedness
Published on February 12, 2016
About a 8 minute read

This is Part 3 of a 6-part series about integral thinking and true materiality. It proposes a new impetus to develop reporting that is able to serve the idea of a green & inclusive economy. Read Part 1 and Part 2. ... View More

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Sustainability Mythbusters: Products With 'Zero Emissions'
Sustainability Mythbusters: Products With 'Zero Emissions'
Published on February 10, 2016
About a 3 minute read

It's easy to use 'common sense' and make assumptions in sustainability, but does that get you the results you want? As a science-based method, LCA is an excellent tool to bust the myths that surround sustainability. In this series, we look at some co... View More

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