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Important News: New GRI Standard for Corporate Reporting Released to Replace GRI G4

The most commonly used sustainability reporting standard for corporate and institutional reporting on an organization’s economic, environmental and social/societal impacts - The Global Reporting Initiative's (“GRI”) framework - has now moved from the fourth generation (G4) to the new modular GRI Standards. The titles of these corporate reports prepared using the GRI approach to disclosure carry varying titles: Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, Environmental Stewardship, and more.

Water Utilities Are Lagging Other Utilities in the Smart Cities Effort

Across the U.S., smart city programs are moving beyond press releases, pilot programs and demonstrations. Municipalities are collaborating with industry and utilities to create roadmaps defining their approach to regional integrated smart infrastructure. Water utilities, however, are lagging in the planning process, and risk losing their seat at the table with electric and gas utility peer companies as the smart city programs advance.

2015 Provident Financial Group Corporate Responsibility Report Published

Provident Financial Group, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of responsible personal credit products to the non-standard lending market, has published its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report.

HBR’s Top Performing CEOs List - Financial Results and Sustainability—A Complex Relationship

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently published its 2016 list of the world’s top 100 CEOs. As in the past, HBR’s staff looked at the financial and ESG (environment, social, governance) performance of the CEOs of 1,200 large companies. They used a measure of financial performance developed by a team of Harvard academics for 80% of their score. The remaining 20% came from averaging two overall measures of corporate sustainability performance, including CSRHub.

Bloomberg Media: If You Want to Innovate (and survive), Put Your Users First

Michael Shane, Global Head of Digital Innovation at Bloomberg Media writes about innovation and argues that it isn't something you can just show up to work and "do.”

GOJO Shares Sustainability Progress and What Matters Most to its Stakeholders with Release of 2015/2016 Sustainability Report

GOJO Industries, a leading global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions and the inventor of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, announced today the publication of its fifth annual Sustainability Report. The report, What Matters Most, focuses on the company’s sustainability progress throughout 2015 and into early 2016, and highlights its progress against its 2015 operational impact goals and the material topics that informed the GOJO 2020 Sustainable Value Strategies and Goals.

Antea Group Releases TSCA Reform Update White Paper

Enactment of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA) in June marked the first substantial change to United States chemical regulation since the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was passed in 1976.

As these new LCSA provisions are implemented by the EPA, chemical manufacturers will need to adjust internal standards and risk management guidelines regarding the way individual chemicals are manufactured, processed and used. Antea Group is committed to assisting our clients in evaluating LCSA reforms and meeting associated regulatory obligations, and we have prepared this white paper to help make sense of the true impact and import of the new regulations, and look at recent developments now that the dust has settled a bit.

Tetra Pak Identifies Food & Beverage Opportunities in Senior Market

Tetra Pak has released a consumer study to highlight opportunities in the food and beverage market for seniors, those aged 60 and over, the fastest growing consumer group in the world.

VMware Releases Global Impact Report

Through the collective impact of their employees, customers and partners, VMware strives to be a Force for Good in the world. Their shared mission is to leave ahead a better future – to put back more into the environment, society and global economy than they take.

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