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The Trillion-Dollar Problem No Company Can Afford to Ignore: Why CFOs Must Take Their Spots on the Front Lines of Climate Risk Assessment

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Risk management is nothing new to CFOs. As stewards of the Company’s financial health, these executives have long been responsible for managing, assessing, and mitigating different types of risk—including financial, operational, and geo-political threats—and for using risk analytics and risk...

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2022 Materiality Checklist for Software and Service Companies: 4 Topics to Focus on First

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Following a thorough review from our team, we created a short-list of E&S topics that are most important to investors right now. We considered our most recent Software and Services materiality studies, investor surveys, and a review of the public...

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2022 Materiality Checklist for Retailers: 4 Topics to Focus on First

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ESG has never been more important to retailers than it is today. With the SEC handing out mandates, investors asking more questions about more topics, and consumers and employees wanting to know everything there is to know about a company’s...

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To CDP or Not to CDP? An Overview of CDP’s 2022 Climate Change Updates

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Each year, CDP releases annual revisions and developments to its questionnaires to reflect and drive best practice, improving both data quality and the disclosure experience for companies. Their 2022 Updates were recently released for the Climate Change, Forests, and Water...

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A Sneak Peek at Early 10-K Filers: 4 Ways Companies are Disclosing Climate Risk in the 10-K

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If 2021 was the year for “S” disclosures in 10-K filings, we expect 2022 to be the year for “E”. Major institutional investors including BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street continue to bolster climate change and ESG expectations in 2022 proxy...

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3 ESG Topics Investors May Ask You About This Year

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With the 2022 proxy season approaching, public companies are passing final committee charter updates, publishing new disclosures, and making sure their ESG stories are as comprehensive as possible before filing the proxy. However, detailed disclosures are merely table stakes when...

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Will Proxy Advisors Support 2022 E&S Shareholder Proposals for Enhanced Disclosures?

ESG Communication

New Policy Guidelines Signal What to Expect Environmental and social (E&S) shareholder proposals have evolved significantly over the last decade. Instead of generic requests for disclosure (i.e., publish a sustainability report), investors now file resolutions as part of a coordinated...

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6 Points We Took Away from Larry Fink’s 2022 Letter

ESG Communication

On Monday, BlackRock’s CEO published his 2022 letter to CEOs, The Power of Capitalism. The 10th in his series, and the longest thus far, the letter is getting plenty of attention, particularly for Mr. Fink’s claim that stakeholder capitalism is...

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Are You Ready for the ESG Big Leagues?

ESG Communication

How to Know if an ESG-Exclusive Investor Event Is Right for Your Business Today, the question isn’t so much if you should communicate ESG initiatives. It’s how. And given how red-hot the topic is, some issuers are considering an investor...

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The Time to Align with CDP and TCFD Is Right Now

ESG Communication

The new year is here—and with it comes new corporate climate risk disclosure requirements. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is poised to put its new rules into effect this year. While the specifics of the requirements are not...

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The Proof Is in the People: Be Ready to Share Your Human Capital Management Metrics Soon

ESG Communication

If business leaders and stakeholders were not keenly aware of the significant link between Human Capital Management (HCM) and business viability before, they sure are now. Over the past 18 months, employees have faced the compounded stress of a pandemic,...

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Nobody (Should) Put ESG in the Corner - Give ESG a Starring Role at Your Next Investor Day

Investor Day

An investor day presents a unique opportunity to build confidence among current and prospective investors. Doing so effectively, while sharing the broader opportunity ahead for your company, makes the investment of your executive team’s time and effort, and conversely investors...

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