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Strategic Governance - Enabling Financial, Environmental, and Social Sustainability

A new book by Hank Boerner and Mark Sickles of the Governance & Accountability Institute.  Click here for more information.

Water Rights & Trading Summits

February 2, 2012 Source: American Water Intelligence (AWI)
Environmental Bonds 2012 - Capital markets and the green economy

February 15, 2012 Source: Environmental Finance
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Featured Articles / Headlines

January 27, 2012 Obama calls for expanded use of natural gas

Source: LA Times

In Nevada, President Obama declares the U.S. the 'Saudi Arabia of natural gas' and encourages shipping companies and others to power their fleets with the fuel resource.

January 27, 2012 GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance

Source: Environmental Leader

The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say they’ll be using the guidelines to help meet their...

January 27, 2012 Chevron to face charges over Brazil spill

Source: Reuters

A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore...

January 27, 2012 Bill Gates tells Davos 'economic crisis is not an excuse for cutting aid - text\video'

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Bills Gates has pledged $750m (£478m) to the troubled Global Fund – which fights aids, tuberculosis and malaria – through his charitable foundation and called on governments around the world not to let the economic crisis affect...

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AC Alert for January 23, 2012 Now Clergy Asks: Where Would Jesus Frack?

Fracking, the hydraulic process that involves injecting liquids into shale deposits deep underground to release oil and natural gas deposits, generates strong emotions among both advocates and opponents. This growing public...[more]

Sustainability / CR Reporting

G&A Institute is the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) sole data partner for the United States of America, The United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland for monitoring, analyzing and databasing reporting results. This section of AC announces Sustainability and CR Reports as they are issued in the USA, UK and Ireland.  For even more detail on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Reporting in the USA please click on the GRI graphic above for access to our reports database maintained in SustainabilityHQ™.

USA Corporate Reporting

RILA Releases Sustainability Report

January 27, 2012 Source: Retail Leaders Industry Association
Union of Concerned Scientists - Sustainability Report 2010

January 26, 2012 Source: Union of Concerned Scientists

United Kingdom Corporate Reporting

Ireland Corporate Reporting

Shell Ireland Sustainability Report

December 29, 2011 Source: Shell Ireland
Canon Sustainability Reports and Digests

December 29, 2011 Source: Canon Ireland

Highlighted Materials from the profiles of SHQ

Select content from SustainabilityHQTM - profiling ESG Players; Public Pension Funds; Sovereign Investors; SRI Asset Managers.


Energy Industry Wants To Ditch 'Fracking'
January 27, 2012 - - Source: Manufacturing Net

Nest hires corporate-governance activists
January 27, 2012 - - Source: Financial News

Bailout paydays for execs
January 27, 2012 - - Source: NY Daily News

Panel: Start search now to replace Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
January 27, 2012 - Associated Profiles : Union of Concerned Scientists - Source: Vacaville Reporter


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