As sustainable investment grows and develops, the practice of communications between companies and investors on sustainability issues evolves to meet emerging investor priorities. In this section, we track best and current practice and emerging trends in company to investor communications on sustainability.
Morningstar/Sustainalytics: The Morningstar Sustainalytics Corporate ESG Survey Report 2022
Highlights and insights: “The Morningstar Sustainalytics Corporate ESG Survey Report highlights the challenges CSR and sustainability professionals are facing, how peers are meeting the challenges, where companies are focusing their ESG efforts, and how companies are using ESG ratings or…
ERM / Sustainability Institute: Costs and benefits of climate-related disclosure activities by corporate issuers and institutional investors
Highlights and insights: “A new survey reveals what private sector organizations are currently spending on measuring and managing key climate change data and disclosure activities. The survey found that on…
IRRI: Capital Naturally – Alignment
Highlights and insights: “A review of how companies communicate to investors on sustainability factors and their alignment of these with key value drivers of their business. To improve the effectiveness…
IRRI: All change in sustainable investor relations
Highlights and insights: “This discussion paper was originally called ‘Evolution in sustainable investor relations’. It set out to chart a gradual process of change in sustainable investor relations. However, our…
IRRI: Who’s writing what?
Highlights and insights: “In this working paper, we focus on the fundamentals of research that – in the long-term – will create a robust and viable platform for the…
SRI-Connect: Are companies using their IR webpages to communicate sustainability effectively to investors?
Highlights and insights: “Companies, across sectors and geographies, are not yet using their investor relations webpages effectively to communicate their sustainability exposures and management practices. Companies are missing potential benefits…
IRRI: Industry Insights – Survey Report 2019
Highlights and insights: The IRRI 2019 Survey set out to deliver a full 360˚ evaluation of the economics and market dynamics of the SRI & corporate governance research and investment…