Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, Inc., on Sunday, January 8, 2017
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is Managing Director at The Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to Sustainability Practices: 2016 Edition, an annual benchmarking report authored by Thomas Singer of The Conference Board and the result of a partnership among The Conference Board, Bloomberg, and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). For details regarding how to obtain a copy of the report or access the online benchmarking Dashboard that accompanies the report, contact matteo.tonello@conference-board.org
The Conference Board recently released the 2016 edition of Sustainability Practices, a comprehensive dataset and analysis capturing the most recent disclosure of environmental and social practices of business corporations. The study reviews a total of 75 environmental and social practices of publicly traded corporations included in the S&P Global 1200 index. For benchmarking purposes, data are historically compared with the S&P 500 and the Russell 1000, and further analyzed across 10 business sectors, four revenue groups, and four regions (encompassing North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific).
The following are some of the Key Findings from this year’s edition: