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Category: ESG

Stakeholders Continue Board Diversity Push Despite Overturning of California Law

Dedicated readers of this site know that California has served as a bellwether regarding environmental, social and governance issues in the corporate sphere. In one of the landmark developments in legislative efforts to increase diversity,...

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Can ESG Handle Adding an H?

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The concept of corporate sustainability has evolved over time beyond just environmental concerns such as carbon emissions and pollution. It now incorporates social and governance issues ­– the “S” and “G” to go with the “E” of what is commo...

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Amplifying the impact of greenhouse gases

The Climate Disclosure Rules Are Here! The Climate Disclosure Rules Are Here!

Amplifying the impact of greenhouse gases

The Securities and Exchange Commission this week finally proposed its rules for disclosing companies’ climate change-related risks. If enacted, registered companies would be required for the first time ever to report on their greenhouse gas...

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Flowers poking out of garden lattice: Sustainability presents complex work for PR Companies

Working with Big Oil is Bad PR for Edelman

Flowers poking out of garden lattice: Sustainability presents complex work for PR Companies

Activism to fight climate change most often gets associated with corporations that make – or take – things, such as energy companies and auto manufacturers. In reality, companies that contribute most directly to pollution rely on a latticew...

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Intelligize Report: SEC Steps Up Focus on Quality, Accuracy of Climate Risk Disclosures

Dark forest with a little fog representative of climate change disclosure

As regulatory authorities have ramped up scrutiny of corporations’ reporting on environmental, social and governance issues, they’re probing more deeply into the quality and accuracy of information contained in companies’ public disclosures...

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