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Despite Climate-Related Damages, Insurers Lack Strategies

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Only one out of eight insurers said they have in-depth climate change strategies, according to a recent survey by investor advocacy group Ceres.

Shell’s ‘New Lens Scenarios’ Predict Near-Zero Global Carbon Emissions by 2100

NEW METRICS - Shell released new scenarios last week that explore two possible futures with dramatically different implications for society and the world’s energy system. One scenario sees cleaner-burning natural gas becoming the most important energy source globally by the 2030s and early action to limit carbon dioxide emissions. The other sees solar becoming the top source by about 2070, but with slower action to address the threat of climate change.The New Lens Scenarios look at trends in the economy, politics and energy as far ahead as 2100, and underscore the critical role government policies could play in shaping the future.

GRI’s G4 Exposure Draft Undermines Sustainable Global Economy

NEW METRICS - We’re scratching our heads over the Global Reporting Initiative’s recent release of the Exposure Draft of its fourth generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (dubbed “G4”).

GRI and Sustainability Context: Explain It Like We’re Four

NEW METRICS - “Now, explain it to me like I’m a four year old,” says Denzel Washington to Tom Hanks in the 1993 film Philadelphia. We pose this same question to the Global Reporting Initiative, the standard-setter for sustainability reporting.

Are Materiality Matrices Really Material?

NEW METRICS - While it is common practice now for corporate sustainability reports to include materiality matrices, whether or not they actually serve their purpose is debatable. Indeed, we (the Center for Sustainable Organizations) don't think they do, and have some suggestions for how to improve them.

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GRI Responds to "Enforce or Explain"

NEW METRICS - GRI has now formally responded to the Enforce or Explain campaign we (the Center for Sustainable Organizations) launched last month in which we suggested that it either enforce the ‘sustainability context’ principle in its Guidelines, or explain why it doesn’t. Motivated, in part, by GRI’s own Report or Explain Campaign, in which GRI exhorts businesses around the world to issue sustainability reports or explain why they don’t, our campaign was aimed at GRI itself.

Defining "Sustainability": An Open Letter to the FTC

NEW METRICS - On April 30, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will conduct a second public workshop in its continuing efforts to address the question of how sustainability claims in advertising should be handled.

Magnum Aiming to Enhance Financial Opportunities for 5K Female Cocoa Farmers by 2025

FINANCE & INVESTMENT - The ice cream brand aims to help 5,000 female cocoa farmers in Côte D'Ivoire achieve financial stability and diversify their incomes, for greater prosperity in the cocoa-farming offseason, by 2025.

Sustainability Today - Winter 2016 Issue

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P&G, NRDC and FSC: The Debate Over Sustainable Tissue Continues

CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Earlier this year, P&G outlined a comprehensive framework for its leading brands to increase their positive impacts on society and the environment. But forest-conservation NGOs say they need less talk, more action when it comes to P&G's tissue products.

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