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Nearly 50% of CFOs Say Sustainability is Key Driver of Financial Performance

Nearly one half of CFOs see sustainability as a key driver of financial performance and two-thirds are involved in driving strategies in their organizations, according to a global Deloitte survey of 250 CFOs, representing companies with greater than $1 billion in annual revenue. The Sustainability: CFOs are Coming to the ... Read more »

Western Union, Hormel Foods, PwC Execs Win Responsible CEO Awards

C-suite executives at Hormel Foods, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Western Union and Wisconsin Energy were named by Corporate Responsibility Magazine as America’s most socially responsible chief executives of the year. The winners of CR Magazine’s fifth annual Responsible CEO of the Year awards are Hikmet Ersek, CEO and president of Western Union; Bob ... Read more »

Firms in Emerging Economies Expect Big Energy Changes by 2014

By 2014, 55 percent of energy decision-makers at large firms operating in emerging economies believe there will be significant to transformative changes in the way their firm manages energy, according to a Verdantix report. This figure is eight percent higher than energy leaders in developed economies. Global Energy Leaders Survey ... Read more »

PwC: Almost Half of Execs Using Sustainability Valuation

About half of corporate executives polled – 46 percent – say they use sustainability valuation methods to compare and prioritize their sustainability initiatives, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey. In the poll of 1,400 executives, 36 percent said their biggest challenge is prioritizing sustainability initiatives. Another 10 percent said they are ... Read more »

Enablon, IHS and SAP Lead in Environmental Management Software, Verdantix Reports

Enablon, IHS and SAP lead the environmental management software market, according to a new study from analyst firm Verdantix. The report, Green Quadrant Environmental Management Software (Global) 2012, compares 12 environmental management software applications. The analysis is based on interviews with 15 buyers representing firms and public authorities with more ... Read more »

Global Food Companies ‘Should Upgrade Sustainable Supply Chain Strategies’

Only four of the world’s largest food producers – Danone, Heinz, PepsiCo and Unilever – have invested in wide-ranging codes of conduct to guide their suppliers’ environmental performance, according to a new report from Verdantix. Verdantix benchmarked the sustainable supply chain strategies of the 12 largest global food firms, with ... Read more »

Sprint Cuts Absolute Emissions 3.5% vs. 2010

Sprint Nextel has announced its 2011 GHG emissions metrics, which put the company halfway to its absolute reduction goal of 20 percent by 2017, compared to 2007 levels. According to Sprint, it’s the first and only US telecom company to publicly announced an absolute GHG emissions reduction goal. Sprint says ... Read more »

McDonald’s, AT&T, Hilton Execs Tell How To ‘Sell Sustainability’

Sustainability officers and managers at McDonald’s, Novelis, AT&T, DuPont, EMC and Hilton Worldwide, among others, say one of the keys to selling sustainability inside their companies is to communicate environmental issues in language business leaders understand – not sustainability jargon, according to a new report that surveyed more than 30 ... Read more »

AT&T, Sprint Top Telecoms Sustainability Metrics

AT&T leads the US sustainable telecoms market in customer offerings and Sprint in corporate sustainability performance, according to a new study from independent analyst firm Verdantix. Smaller operators like CenturyLink, Level 3, Earthlink and Windstream have not invested as much as their larger competitors, according to Green Quadrant Sustainable Telecoms ... Read more »

Supply Chain Sustainability Standards Lacking, Companies Say

Sixty-two percent of executives surveyed said a lack of measurement standards impairs their efforts to track supply chain sustainability performance, according to a study released today by Green Research. The firm surveyed 30 senior sustainability and procurement executives at major companies globally and found that poor data quality also hinders ... Read more »


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