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How to get investors to care about sustainability? Show them the money | Guardian Susta... - 1 views

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shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 17 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • It begins with an effort to communicate the business value of sustainability in terms investors already understand: the potential to drive revenue growth from sustainability-advantaged products, improve productivity (and margins) from sustainability initiatives and measurably reduce key sustainability-related risks to revenue and reputation.
  • Understanding how effectively a business is exploiting the new global force in business in simple terms may be a key indicator that every analyst needs to know.
  • n 2012, DuPont generated more than $10bn from environmentally advantaged products
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  • Pirelli reports 45% (or €2.84bn) of their €6.3bn 2012 total revenue comesfrom their "green performance" products, up from 36% in 2010.
  • GM earns $1bn a year turning waste into revenue
  • Praxair saves more than $100m per year in sustainability-driven productivity savings through aggregating benefits from thousands of closely managed projects, yielding more than 4% improvement in their annual operating income.
  • Philips earned 45% of its more than $24bn 2012 revenue from sustainability-advantaged products
  • Suzanne Pinckney on 17 Sep 13
     
    reinforces our first article on speaking investors speak
Suzanne Pinckney

The New Metrics: Clues for making sense of sustainability ratings | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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step 6 communications metrics ratings benchmarking best practices

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • “If it’s easy to remember, it’s easier to participate,” he said.
  • Oudghin showed examples of the remarkable transparency of some publicly traded companies, such as Nike, where anyone can check up on the details of pretty much every Nike supplier.
  • “How would we recognize a truly sustainable business if we saw one?”
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  • This “fourth benchmark” goes beyond metrics comparisons to a baseline year, to competitors, or to an internal company goal. The Gold Standard would use material, science-based key performance indicators and goals that could identify a truly sustainable business. Willard is actively working with a broad range of stakeholders from the capital markets to non-profit sustainability experts such as the Natural Step and GISR.
  • And one factor pushing the acceptance and utilization of metrics is the shortening timeframes of risk management in the wake of recent climate events. Gil Friend, founder and CEO or Natural Logic, Inc., said he trusts that each new measuring tool adds new worlds of understanding of “capital,” whether monetary, environmental or social.
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