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An emerging standard for sustainability standards aims to tame corporate survey fatigue while giving investors the tools to recognize true excellence in corporate sustainability. Can it work?
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Divestment from fossil fuels needs to be coupled with a forward-looking investment strategy
Impact investing has come a long way. But is it ready for prime-time business?
Why shouldn't climate change be the apartheid of this generation?
The answers are surprising. But there are alternatives to investments that take care to avoid investing in companies involved in the extraction and production of natural resources.
A new report on sustainable, responsible, and impact investing shows some shifts in the wind.
A big concern for investors is the governance of countries their investments are tied to -- most notably Sudan and Iran, according to the Social Investment Forum Foundation.
The Environmental Defense Fund aims to find environmental -- and financial -- opportunities at smaller companies with a new program for private equity firms.
Public infrastructure investments have dominated investments in developing economies, but the map is changing.
Despite critics' claims, even the most ROI-focused companies can build robust approaches that enhance and secure value.
When it comes to aligning investors' sustainability values with corporate governance, we have seen the enemy -- and it is us.
The results of the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Index annual review suggest that sustainable business practices are becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
Environmental, social and governance issues take on increased prominence in the private equity industry.
Just what the sustainable finance and investment field desperately needs: another buzzword.
We won't know for some time whether the 2012 Summer Games in London lived up to its claim of being the most sustainable in history. But organizers say they helped transform a polluted and...
Divestment is no longer the only game in town when it comes to socially responsible investing. Shareholders are increasingly using their clout to force conversations -- and file resolutions --...
The further and faster we move into a world of globally interconnected business hypercompetition, the more and more inadequate our traditional analytical tools become.
An analysis by Ceres and Fund Votes of 2011 proxy voting reveals that the three largest mutual funds failed to vote in favor of a single climate-related resolution.
The role of corporate sustainability executives increasingly is about managing risk, plain and simple.
A friendly amendment to the increasingly popular notion of "impact investing."
A major pension fund's recent blacklisting of Walmart reminds us of the importance of social and governance issues as a tenet of shareholder value.
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