SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights

Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization and their recent activity as monitored by SHQ.

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Earth Day - Climate Week - The World Celebrates Promises and Actions to Meet Climate Change Challenges
Yes, this is Climate Week, being observed just about everywhere on this precious Blue Orb floating in space. The varied observations are “surrounding” the now-50-plus-one years of celebrating Earth Day in midweek.

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Springtime in North America - a Time Featuring Corporate-investor Engagement and Proxy Voting on Critical Issues
Springtime comes to the USA with the pretty flowers in bloom, trees budding, the onset of warmer weather -- and asset owners and their managers participating willingly or reluctantly in the peak months of corporate proxy voting season.

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On Corporate Risk Strategy, Sustainable Actions & Outcomes - What's the Best Ways to Report on ESG to Stakeholders?
The current buzz among key stakeholders is centered on “Quo Vadis”…where do we go from here!

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Pre-crisis, Critical Event(s) / In Crisis! / Prevention, Mitigation - Where Will the World Act in the Context of Climate Change?
The G&A Institute team collectively has helped to manage literally hundreds of critical events or crisis situations over the years for clients.

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Federal Policymakers & Regulators Embrace or Reject ESG / Sustainability Factors - a Complicated Story of To & Fro
Federal policymaking and regulation with respect to investor risk and opportunity is a complicated story played out over almost a century.

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The United States of America Moves Forward with the Biden-Harris “Climate Crisis Agenda” for Federal Government Actions
As he assumed the post of the highest elected public officer of the United States, President Joseph Biden characterized his [as the] “Climate Administration” and immediately (the fabled Day One actions) set out a very ambitious “climate crisis”...

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Are We Headed Toward a New Sustainability Standards Board To Harmonize Corporate ESG Disclosure? - Some Important Developments You Should Know About
The public discourse about the current (and future) state of corporate sustainability / ESG disclosure and reporting continues to steadily expand, especially in Europe and North America, Asia, and other regions.

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The Expanding Public Debates About the “What” & “How” of Corporate ESG Disclosure - Hundreds of Frameworks, Standards & Guidance Available Now - and the Growing Disclosure Fatigue Challenges for Both Reporters and Users
Corporate sustainability / ESG reporting -- What to disclose? How to frame the disclosures (context matters!)? What frameworks or standards to use? Questions, questions, and more questions for corporate managers to consider as ESG disclosures steadily expand

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“Sustainable Investing” or Just Plain “Investing” - Where Are We in 2021? Important Milestones Provide Answers...
We have traveled a far distance over the past four decades, beginning with “ethical” and “faith-based” and the more frequent “socially responsible investing”, morphing over time into “sustainable & responsible investing” and on to “ESG investing”.

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Eyes on Financial Accounting & Reporting Standards - IASB and FASB Consider “Convergence” & Separate Actions
Investors Are Calling For More Non-Financial Standards for Corporate Reporting, Less Confusion in What is Now “Voluntary” Disclosure.

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