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Keeping Score: Understanding ISS ESG Rating Systems and What They Say About Your Company

ESG Communication

As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings become more mainstream, we’re seeing more ratings firms getting into the picture, each with their own system and methodology. Not surprisingly, companies often struggle to understand and meet the diverse requirements from this...

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Framing It Up: Everything You Need to Know About ESG Framework Adoption Trends in 2022 and Beyond

ESG Communication

When it comes to voluntary ESG disclosures, 2022 was a record year. Companies across the S&P 400, 500, and 600 stepped up transparency and reporting by publishing corporate sustainability reports (CSRs) in droves and taking the often resource-intensive steps to...

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5 Expert Tips for an ESG Report That Speaks Every Stakeholder’s Language

ESG Communication

If you are an ESG report owner who is starting to plan for your 2022 report, rest assured that you’re not alone if you feel a bit anxious about the project ahead. After all, there’s a lot riding on the...

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Leading Companies Aren’t Waiting to Disclose Their Climate Actions in the Proxy & 10-K. Neither Should You.

ESG Communication

It’s been nearly a year since the SEC publicly disseminated its proposed climate disclosure rules for publicly traded companies. Still, the rule has yet to be finalized. Some companies, anticipating lawsuits, delays, and changes to these rules, are biding their...

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What You Don’t Say on E&S Can and Will Be Used Against You: How Economic Activists Are Gaining a Boost from ESG

ESG Communication

You only need to be half listening to catch the chatter about environmental and social proposals playing a more important role during the coming proxy season. But the reality is, less than 50 of these proposals saw the light of...

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Address Drops in Your ISS Governance Score - And Get the Credit You Deserve

ESG Communication

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently introduced more methodology updates to its main ESG rating system, the ISS QualityScore (ISSQS). The system grades companies across Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars relative to their industry and region and based on hundreds of...

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The Dos and Don'ts of Sustainability Communications: Why Overstating, Understating, or Not Stating At All Are Major No-Nos When it Comes to ESG.

ESG Communication

If we could offer companies only one word of advice on sustainability communications, it would be this: Transparency. But since we have the luxury of this article, allow us to elaborate. The point we want to make is that ESG...

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The Expertise Every Team Needs for Investor-Grade Climate Reporting

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The SEC is taking a closer look at corporate sustainability reports, and, even though the disclosures in these communications are voluntary, investors use them to make decisions. That means the SEC is interested in what they have to say—and each CFO should...

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Seeing the Full Picture: The Three P’s of Climate Reporting Readiness

ESG Communication

The SEC will likely soon require U.S. publicly traded companies to report metrics, management, and processes regarding climate-related risks. To prepare, CFOs and accounting teams’ reporting and infrastructure processes will need to become more robust as the level of rigor...

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ESG Is too Big for One Board Committee. Even the Sustainability Committee.

ESG Communication

By: Sarah Lockett, Director and Elizabeth Saunders, Partner Take these 4 steps toward an integrated board oversight model. Last year, we wrote about the importance of finding ESG a home, emphasizing the need to put it somewhere to overcome the...

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The SEC is Reading Your Corporate Sustainability Report. Time For an ESG Comms Game Plan.

ESG Communication

Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, and ESG Impact Reports – collectively, we will call these Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSRs) – are a communications tool rating agencies have referenced for decades. Traditionally, CSRs were cordoned from financial reporting, and content...

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Suppliers Can't Ignore ESG Ratings Anymore: The EcoVadis Scorecard is Coming at You. And This One Has Teeth.

ESG Communication

If you’re an ESG holdout either because you think the rules don’t apply to smaller, privately held companies or because you believe the SEC’s new regulations won’t ever really go into effect, it’s important to know that even if federal...

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