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Integrated Reporting Brings Business Benefits

September 24, 2014September 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Two studies released today show integrated reporting’s positive impacts on business engagement with external stakeholders, strategic benefits including better decision-making, and the importance of integrated reporting in helping to meet the needs of investors. The International Integrated Reporting Council research, conducted in partnership with corporate communications firm Black Sun, found ... Read more »

MSCI, VIS Launch Sustainable Indices

September 22, 2014September 21, 2014 by Ken Jennison

MSCI has launched the MSCI Global Low Carbon Leaders Indexes, consisting of companies with significantly lower carbon exposure than the broad market, and VIS Essential Investments has launched an index to track the performance of financially successful and resource-efficient companies. The MSCI Indexes were developed at the request of and ... Read more »

Lean and Green Can Be Profitable

August 18, 2014August 15, 2014 by Ken Jennison

As manufacturers around the world adopt lean manufacturing and cut down on raw material consumption, energy usage, environmental waste and pollution, they are learning that eco-friendly practices can be profitable, according to Ensia. John Quarmley has learned this. Quarmley started Highwood USA in Pennsylvania as a company with sustainable manufacturing practices ... Read more »

PwC: Investors Increasingly Considering Sustainability

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 by Leon Walker

Sustainability issues are increasingly relevant to investors as they seek to integrate environmental and corporate responsibility factors in both current and future investment practices, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Most investors anticipate considering sustainability concepts in at least some aspect of the investment decision-making process. In the last 12 months, ... Read more »

How Businesses Can Stop Climate-Related Economic Loss

May 22, 2014May 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The UN has launched an initiative to mainstream disaster risk management into corporate planning and investment decision-making: a digital globe that shows current and possible future effects of climate change. The R!SE initiative aims to help quell economic loss from geographic events and is a response to 10 years of record-breaking ... Read more »

PwC: Stockholm, Sydney Top Sustainable City Ranking

May 20, 2014May 20, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Stockholm and Sydney are the most sustainable cities in the world, a ranking driven by air quality, recycled waste efforts and public park space, according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report. The firm’s sixth edition of the Cities of Opportunity report, which ranks the top 30 cities from across the globe, measures 10 key indicators including ... Read more »

Integrated Reporting Attracts Dedicated Investors, PwC Report Finds

May 2, 2014May 2, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Investors are increasingly considering non-financial factors such as resource scarcity and looking at a company’s integrated reporting to assess the risks and returns of a company, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. To evaluate these risks, management teams are using integrated reporting, a tool designed to show a transparent and accurate ... Read more »

Grow Customers, Profits by Measuring ‘Whole Footprint,’ PwC Says

January 24, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chief executives recognize the importance of measuring businesses’ whole footprint — environmental, social, fiscal and economic — but most companies still only measure and report on their financial performance, according to PwC’s 17th Annual CEO Survey. The survey found 75 percent of participants agree that satisfying societal needs beyond those ... Read more »

Verdantix purchase of sustainability assurance

Verdantix Names Top Sustainability Assurance Suppliers

December 17, 2013December 17, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bureau Veritas, Deloitte, DNV, EY, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are the six leading suppliers of sustainability assurance, according to a Verdantix report. Increased scrutiny of environmental, social and governance disclosures in financial and sustainability reports will require Fortune 500 firms to seek much more comprehensive assurance of their sustainability data ... Read more »

PwC Integrated Reporting Assessment Shows ‘Opportunity for Change’

December 13, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) research on integrated reporting using the International Integrated Reporting Council’s (IIRC) framework shows the need for an evolved information set when it comes to the current model of corporate reporting. PwC assessed 400 companies across more than 20 industries on aspects of the IIRC framework with a focus ... Read more »

Sustainability Factors into Deal Making, PwC Says

November 14, 2013November 14, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

More than two-thirds of executives say they plan to evaluate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in future deals, according to a poll of more than 300 professionals conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) US. The poll, conducted during PwC’s webcast, Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in deals and valuing ... Read more »

Carbon Budget to be Spent by 2034, PwC Warns

November 4, 2013November 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The world is on track to blow the 2 degree Celsius carbon budget, estimated by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the next 89 years, within 21 years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis. This puts the world on a path consistent with potential global warming of around 4 degrees ... Read more »

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