ESG/Sustainability Highlights
June 30, 2022
Source: Perishable News - US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD) announced the opening of the company’s 70th distribution facility, located in Sacramento, California. The new 355,000-square-foot state-of-the art distribution facility and customer engagement...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Dazed Digital - Fashion week has become a platform for brands to launch their latest sustainability efforts, whether it’s cactus leather jackets, a return to handcrafting, or reused materials. But often absent is any mention or consideration of...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Forbes - Some winegrowing regions have incorporated the term sustainable into the official name or stamps within certification bodies. For example, Sustainable Austria was developed by the Austrian Winegrowers Association to allow...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Earth.com - The research, led by Newcastle University, showed that small-scale farmers in Tanzania who implemented agroecological tactics had significant material improvement, including savings, land acquisition, and other assets. They were...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin is routinely treated as an environmental pariah: its energy consumption is quite simple to track and quick-label as “anti-ecological.” This statement is wrong on many levels, but public opinion is rarely nuanced, and...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: CMS Wire - Innovation often happens when two existing concepts are executed in a way they haven’t been before. Sustainable marketing is one of those. Though we’ve seen the two terms come together to market specifically environmentally...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Scientific America - Global clean energy spending is expected to surge 12 percent in 2022, reaching $1.4 trillion as the world pours money into renewables, electric vehicles and energy efficiency, according to a recent International Energy Agency...
[more]
June 30, 2022
Source: Euronews - he European Environment Agency (EEA) recently reviewed the latest scientific evidence on pollution, second-hand smoke, radon, asbestos and other chemicals, as well as ultraviolet radiation (UV rays). It found that exposure to...
[more]
June 29, 2022
Source: Yahoo Finance - The world’s third-largest maker of semiconductor wafers, Taiwan’s GlobalWafers, announced plans to build a $5 billion factory in the U.S. on Monday—but only if the government helps pay for it.
[more]
June 29, 2022
Source: Sustainability Times - A recent New York Times exposé has shown that, for many rural communities in the Congo, the logging industry is often the only way to survive, even as people are becoming increasingly aware of how vital these carbon-absorbing...
[more]
Governance & Accountability Institute is a monitoring, intelligence-gathering and knowledge management center operating at the intersection of powerful forces reshaping relationships between stockholders and stakeholders, and the public corporation. The key players transforming the markets and interacting with corporate management and boards include fund owners and asset managers and their third party advisors-in sovereign wealth funds,socially responsible investment organizations, activist hedge funds, public pension funds, labor union funds, private equity firms, investment banks...and more.
G&A identifies key players, monitors their activities, conducts research, charts the players's influence on capital markets and companies, and provides news and intelligence through G&As "SustainabilityHQTM" advisory services. SustainabilityHQTM resources at the intersections of powerful capital markets players--and the public and private companies they invest in.
