The U.S. economy is now the same size that it was before the 2007 recession, and yet we have 7 million fewer jobs. The latest data from the Department of Labor suggests that zero job growth is here to stay well into 2012. As conversations across the nation shift from how to create economic growth [...]
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Why Small Businesses Should Be Adding More Green Jobs
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Previous applicants need not apply: Is ‘Chief Resiliency Officer’ the dream job of tomorrow?
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Responsible Investment on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If in 2007 you were to tell someone that just 4 years later we would live in a world where banks are nationalised (to bailout a failed economic system), nature is privatised (to generate new wealth from ecosystem services) and the Middle East was the centre of the universe for democratic revolution (following the Arab [...]
Fixing the Nine Flaws of ESG Analysis: From the Deep Water to Horizon
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, ESG on April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A year ago the explosion on Deepwater Horizon unleashed the worst environmental disaster in US history. For those who subscribe to the idea that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis makes for enhanced risk analysis, it was a costly blow, as BP had been rated well by many ESG analysts, and the stock took a [...]
Relative or absolute values?
Posted in Corporate Reporting on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When reporting on their corporate responsibility performance, companies generally provide both absolute (e.g. total greenhouse gas emissions, total quantities of resources consumed) and relative performance data (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions per unit of turnover, energy consumed per unit of shopping floor area). However, they tend to focus their narrative on relative performance data for various [...]
