The potential of M&A in IT services: Three charts
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The IT services industry presents attractive opportunities for value creation through M&A. Here’s the playbook.
Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity. The microeconomic decisions such metrics enable can exert strong influence on emissions while simultaneously contributing to enterprise value creation.
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Moody’s Corporation Chairman Vincent Forlenza, AccountAbility CEO Sunil (Sunny) A. Misser Advocate for Proactive Board Leadership in Capital Finance International’s Summer 2024 Issue
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Shiva Rajgopal , Professor at Columbia University Business School, the article delves into the critical role of effective board governance in the face of modern challenges, offering innovative frameworks and strategies for leaders focused on long-term value creation.
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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
We see climate as a global challenge that requires solutions at all levels, and we are thinking about how we invest, where we invest, and what we do to drive value creation. 4th webinar presented, focusing on what carbon offsets can – and can’t – do as part of our Climate Action webinar series. KKR CLIMATE ACTION STRATEGY.
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From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Participating in the circular economy and presenting sustainable practices often gives these companies an edge. As Butler said, “There is a need to create the right infrastructure in order to realize that value creation, and to provide opportunities for materials to be recovered and re-utilized in some way, shape or form.".
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. They can have a profound positive impact across economic, social and environmental value creation.
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Future Economy Forum Highlights Solutions at COP27 To Scale a New Economic Mainstream – Beyond Sustainability – Toward Regenerative Models for Business & Economy
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Guests and presenters included business, government, finance and civil society leaders, including: Alexander Van der Bellen , President of Austria.
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The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy
GreenBiz
MAY 29, 2020
Factoring in that flexibility upstream — by designing both tooling and products to be repurposable and versatile — could be a way to enhance value-creation potential and achieve greater resilience of industry, both valuable beyond the current situation.
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8 Leaders at Davos 2022 Explain How Business Can Deliver on ESG Promises
3BL Media
JUNE 1, 2022
The World Economic Forum’s Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation , launched in 2020, enabled businesses to track their contributions towards the SDGs on a consistent basis. This calls for greater attention to how the data underlying ESG ratings is generated.
CalPERS, Leader in Sustainable Investment, Stays the Course on ESG
3BL Media
APRIL 15, 2024
In the present environment of right-wing pushback on ESG and DEI, CalPERS is staying the course. As CalPERS describes its efforts, managers consider that long-term value creation requires the effective management of three forms of capital – Financial, Physical, Human, all part of its economic approach to sustainable investment.
White paper presents circular value chain solutions for textiles
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Cross-industry collaboration and business model innovation to support profitable and long-term value creation across the textile value chain. These key beliefs are: Supportive policy, legislation and incentives to guide and motivate the shift towards circularity in textiles.
Expanding Access to Clean Energy for New Jersey Communities
3BL Media
MAY 19, 2022
This challenge presents investors with a tremendous opportunity to generate value by backing the industries, infrastructure and innovations that will power a stronger, more sustainable future. That’s why we’re thrilled to participate in the New Jersey Community Solar Energy Pilot Program. All rights reserved.
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WSP Honored With Three 2021 EBJ Business Achievement Awards
3BL Media
MARCH 7, 2022
Environmental Business Journal presents awards recognizing firm’s achievements with wetlands restoration, habitat enhancement and environment-based mergers and acquisitions. These acquisitions directly contributed to the goals of WSP’s 2019-2021 Global Strategic Plan and will contribute to the firm’s strategic growth and value creation.
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How Do We Break the Death Grip of Mistrust? Through Action, Transparency, and Accountability.
Just Capital
JANUARY 18, 2022
This notion of a better form of capitalism presents a powerful force that seven years of polling all around the country has made plain the vast majority of Americans support. For the market to truly hold corporations to account for their performance on stakeholder value creation, it must have a way to gauge performance accurately and openly.
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MedTech Market Leaders Share Their Long-Term Business Strategy at CECP's CEO Investor Forum @ The MedTech Conference
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
They presented to investors representing trillions in market cap at the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) 2022 MedTech Conference October 25-26 in Boston, MA. The presentations can be viewed via CECP’s YouTube channel. EY was a presenting sponsor of the CECP CEO Investor Forum @ The MedTech Conference.
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Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain
GreenBiz
MARCH 29, 2021
For example, at Fenton, our teams believe everyone involved in the process of creating the company’s beautiful products should benefit from the value creation and come to no harm. . In practice, this means weaving these principles into the fabric of the business.
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ENGIE and O-I Drive Green Electricity Transformation in Europe
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
At O-I, the journey to sustainability is grounded in resilience, innovation, and the ever-present challenge to transform what we do.”. Recognizing the tremendous benefits of glass, the United Nations has designated 2022 as the International Year of Glass to celebrate the past, present, and future of this transformative material.
Only 42% of Companies Disclosing on CSRD this Year Fully Confident in Meeting Sustainability Reporting Requirements: PwC Survey
ESG Today
DECEMBER 5, 2024
According to the survey, more than half of respondents required to report in 2024 expect CSRD reporting to be materially relevant to value creation for their companies, top areas of material impact cited including financing conditions for their companies (reported by 47% of respondents), employee retention (42%) and company valuation (36%).
Mondel?z International Doubles Down on Cocoa Life Program With Total Investment of $1 Billion by 2030; Calls for More Sector-Wide Action
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
z International’s environmental, social and governance and sustainability strategies, goals, targets and initiatives; and long-term value creation. There may be other factors not presently known to Mondel?z z International’s business in developed and emerging markets, its channels, its brands and its categories; Mondel?z
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The Legacy and Future of Gildan Respects™
3BL Media
MAY 19, 2022
Long-term value creation. Genevieve: Gildan Respects ™ provides us a compelling platform to present our ESG story and how our ESG practices have evolved over time. Our ESG team was developing Gildan’s Next Generation ESG strategy, which focuses on five areas: Climate, energy, water. Human capital management. Circularity.
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DuPont Publishes 2022 Sustainability Report
3BL Media
MAY 2, 2022
Our sustainability strategy is helping power our transformation as a premier multi-industrial company and strengthening our portfolio to deliver long-term value creation. Unlisted factors may also present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements.
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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean
3BL Media
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Integrated Reporting Framework (IR Framework) The International IR Framework is a principles-based framework that focuses on three principles: value creation, value preservation and the identification and retention of financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and natural capital.
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Guest Post: Can Today’s CSO Become Tomorrow’s CEO?
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A few years ago, that finding may not have been worthy of comment, but with the rise of the transformational corporate sustainability officers (CSOs), focusing as much on strategic value creation as climate change, to me it’s more than a little bit disappointing. Looks like Al Gore might have been onto something.
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85% of Companies Increased Sustainability Investments Over Past Year, as Execs Expect Direct Business Benefits: Deloitte Survey
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Instead, sustainability is increasingly serving as an engine for new value creation, a competitive differentiator, and a driver of innovation and transformation.”
Sofidel: Building a Better Future
3BL Media
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Sofidel pursues the promotion of the culture of health (from production environments to the hygienic-sanitary characteristics of its products up to their distribution) as one of the basic elements of its value creation process and as a factor in people's development. Quality Education.
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Guest Post: Sustainability is a Driver of Innovation, Not an Expense to Manage
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
What reporting alone fails to recognize is the forward-looking opportunity that human capital presents and its opportunity to insulate against potential losses. Focusing purely on reporting misses out on the information that investors actually seek – how your company is pursuing growth opportunities for long-term value creation.
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Bayer Showcases Leadership in Breakthrough Innovations and Sustainable, Tailored Solutions to Meet Global Challenges in Agriculture
3BL Media
AUGUST 19, 2022
The next frontier of value creation is about more than bringing better individual inputs, but rather in digitally enhancing those solutions to optimize yields, create efficiencies and improve returns. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. .
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DuPont Sustainability Report: Our Strategy
3BL Media
JUNE 13, 2022
Together, these actions accelerated and increased our innovation value creation potential, aligned to SDGs, with deepened customer insights and specialized capabilities. Protect people and the planet. The need for protection has never been more evident or urgent than in the last few years. Empower people to thrive.
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You'll Know a Breakthrough Nonprofit Brand When You Experience One
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Breakthrough nonprofits make concerted efforts to break down internal silos and create cohesion across the organization, ensuring that the organization is synergistically aligned to present a clear and consistent message to supporters.
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Mondel?z International Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Reaffirms Long-term Growth Strategy
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
z International’s environmental, social and governance and sustainability strategies, goals, targets and initiatives; and long-term value creation. There may be other factors not presently known to Mondel?z z International’s business in developed and emerging markets, its channels, its brands and its categories; Mondel?z
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UK AD pioneer to collaborate with Japanese construction giant
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 8, 2024
Each of the 10 companies – carefully selected from among the UK’s leading sustainability tech startups – then presented how its technology could support Shimizu’s vision, before participating in a Q&A session. The systems are already being installed globally, both by SEaB Energy directly and through distribution and licensing agreements.
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The Road to CSO Success
Chris Hall
AUGUST 1, 2024
Now, it’s graduated to being an important input into strategy, legal, risk, and long-term value creation.” The first scenario presents a company taking its first steps in sustainability in response to incoming reporting requirements. “It
Developing a Profound, Climate Strategy Through Deep Decarbonization
Sphera
APRIL 25, 2022
Tracking and disclosing of emissions should include an annual, full disclosure of GHG inventory; a breakdown of Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; and the presentation of historical and activity data for each emission source. A business strategy is about value creation. Prepare governance and KPIs.
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Take Five: The Waiting is Almost Over
Chris Hall
MARCH 1, 2024
Clearing’s present danger – Financial market infrastructures are waking up to climate risks, even as some central banks are scaling back their work in this area. The terms of reference for the review seem intentionally broad, emphasising “long-term value creation” and seeking to avoid reporting burdens and unintended consequences.
Mondel?z International Progresses Against “Snacking Made Right” ESG Goals
3BL Media
MAY 16, 2022
There may be other factors not presently known to the Company or which the Company currently considers to be immaterial that could cause its actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements the Company makes. z International’s control, which could cause Mondel?
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SBER Q3 Executive Symposium – Part One: Aligning ESG Vision & Strategy with Corporate Purpose to Get Net Zero Done
Sustainable Round Table
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A special thanks to our Member-Client presenters: Amy Wendel , Director and Head of Corporate Responsibility at GoTo and Jacqueline Drumheller , Global Sustainability Program Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories. Member-Clients can find a copy of the presentation deck from our Q3 Symposium in our Digital Library.
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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022
Carlos Sanchez
DECEMBER 7, 2021
In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Besides, Danone’s CEO stepped down after investors blamed him for failing to balance shareholder value creation and sustainability.
IoT for EV Charging – Powering Towards Sustainable Future
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Indeed, those imagining future grids wonder what to do with all that extra solar power, since it has to be stored to be useful, as the demand to use it is not present today. It’s a wonderful example for blurring borders between industries and the need for co-value creation across industries.
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Surfing the Sustainability Wave
Chris Hall
APRIL 12, 2024
Further outlining its stewardship priorities for this year back in February, CalSTRS said it intended to use its influence as a global investor to promote long-term sustainable business practices and public policies, and engage publicly traded companies to support long-term value creation and mitigate risk.
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The JUST Report: Meet the 2022 JUST 100 Leaders
Just Capital
JANUARY 12, 2022
This presents genuine opportunities for real leadership. This chart showcases the win-win of stakeholder value creation, demonstrating JUST 100 outperformance on key ESG metrics in this year’s Rankings. Issue-wise, worker criteria accounted for fully 40% of the ranking model by weight, and more if you include “Creating U.S.
Five Lessons from Climate Week NYC 2024
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 4, 2024
The critical role of financial quantification Fiscally responsible decision-making on the path to net positive means understanding and financially quantifying the risks and opportunities presented by sustainability in order that a company can make a robust and actionable transition plan.
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NBIM Divestments Driven by Social, Governance Risks
Chris Hall
MARCH 4, 2022
As a long-term investor, we are looking for real value creation over time and not short-term gains that might be achieved with aggressive tax planning,” the report said. They also presented an elevated risk of taxes not being paid where the economic value was created, the report added.
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Integration of Social Issues Critical to Confront Climate Change
Chris Hall
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Webster said that while reporting on social risks is “improving” it remains fragmented and “a long way behind” climate reporting. He added that the UNDP report is “right to focus on the need for integrating these social considerations with the E and G of ESG”.
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How Green Methanol Can Help Decarbonize the Chemical Industry
Sphera
APRIL 12, 2022
The impact of CO2 emissions presents one of the most challenging issues of the 21st century. This approach can reduce GHG emissions while maintaining industrial value creation in a holistic way, rather than simply shifting emissions from one sector or country to another. Methanol as a Cornerstone of Decarbonization.
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