While nearly 500 global companies have made commitments to no-deforestation with varying degrees of specificity, only a handful disclose their quantitative progress toward achieving them and eliminating tropical forest loss from their commodity supply chains. Many hundreds more are still exposed to deforestation risk, and have yet to set public commitments or take specific actions […]
Across industries, managing companies’ supply chain sustainability has become increasingly important. Leading companies recognize that supply chain sustainability programs create value through mitigating risk, increasing resource efficiency to find cost savings, driving innovation through supplier collaboration, and more. The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder is a maturity model that BSR has developed for companies to evaluate and evolve their approach to supply […]
In 2019, the landscape of digital communication, international agreements and investor expectations makes stakeholder engagement more important than ever: Digital and social media amplify voices of the public, including civil society organizations; international agreements such as the UN Guiding Principles and Sustainable Development Goals have been established and globally accepted; and investors are significantly more […]
In The Ceres Strategic Plan, we explain who we are, whom we work with and how we create change. We share plans to address four global challenges: climate change, water scarcity and pollution, inequitable workplaces and outdated capital market systems. And we also lay out our plans for growing and strengthening Ceres in order to fulfill our […]
Supplier non-compliance protocols are an essential part of a risk management plan for companies with exposure to commodities. Yet a lack of consensus on how to engage non-compliant suppliers has stalled many companies’ implementation of no-deforestation commitments. An absence of clear protocols to deal with non-compliance will continue to allow product produced on deforested land […]
Investors and their membership organizations have played an active role in shaping corporate behavior on ESG issues, but there is still a lack of comprehensive information about what outcomes can be expected from various investor influence strategies such as dialogues with company management, shareholder proposals and proxy voting, divestment and public policy engagement. Ceres and […]
The Proxy Voting Guidebook showcases memos supporting shareholder proposals filed by institutional investors concerned about the risks and opportunities of climate change to companies in their portfolios. Each memo presents the business case for a shareholder proposal that will go to vote during the 2019 proxy season. The resolutions discussed are a sampling of more […]
Participants of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue – an initiative bringing together the major standard setters and framework providers globally – are launching a six-week global consultation process on Wednesday 20 March 2019, to gather views from stakeholders on how to drive better alignment of sustainability reporting frameworks, as well as with frameworks that promote integration between […]
In 2018, 7,018 of the world’s largest companies reported information about their efforts to manage their climate, water and forestsrelated risks and impacts through CDP’s global disclosure platform. This includes 455 companies that disclosed information on their deforestation risks and impacts. This data is used by over 525 institutional investors, representing US$ 96 trillion, to […]
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