Monday, February 21, 2011

Why should a company bother with sustainability?

15% - Stock prices of 99 companies identified as sustainable outperformed industry averages by 15% (source AT Kearney)


$64 - Trillion dollars of institutional investment that places a premium on companies with a high sustainability index (source: CDP)

93% - of CEO’s believe sustainability issues will be CRITICAL to the future success of their business (source: McKinsey)

91% - of CEO’s report that their companies will employee new technologies to address sustainability issues in the next 5 yrs (source: McKinsey)

2456 - # of entities that disclosed their GHG to the carbon disclosure project in 2009 (source: CDP)

1 comment:

  1. Yes the subject has finally hit mainstream with the HBR conversation between Kramer and Porter. They demonstrated a thin understanding of the true value but we'll cover that in an interview i am doing with Chris Laszlo tomorrow morning. Should be up in March on the podcast. Meanwhile, see the LAMP index for market performance with stewardship. Here is the link to the old news that is now mainstream 'new'. http://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value/ar/1
    Nice research work Shane!

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