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Legg Mason, Inc. Issues 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

In our 100+ years of investing, Legg Mason has grown into one of the world’s largest asset management firms. Legg Mason’s mission is “Investing to Improve Lives,” it’s our internal compass that guides all of our decisions and everything we do every day. We, along with our family of nine Affiliates, believe that if we’re living up to that mission, we will be in a stronger position to serve our constituencies.

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Caterpillar Law and Public Policy Review

Law and Public Policy includes the Legal Services Division and the Global Government & Corporate Affairs Division. Responsibilities include legal and compliance services; media relations; internal communications; government affairs advocacy; sustainability consulting; and global environmental, health and safety services. Support for the Caterpillar Foundation is also provided by our group, making sustainable progress possible around the world.

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Caterpillar Enterprise System Group Review

Caterpillar Enterprise System Group is facilitating and supporting the strategy to achieve Enterprise Excellence by working deeply with the strategic businesses to align the enterprise, drive action and deliver superior results.

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Cat Financial Products & Corporate Services Review

Financial Products provides various forms of insurance to customers and dealers to help support the purchase and lease of our equipment. Corporate Services provides business and human resources, information technology, accounting and finance services to Caterpillar, serving as the enterprise resource for business-related activities.

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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.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

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.

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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.

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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.

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