What’s the ROI of CSR? In the corporate world of hard (monetary) facts and figures this question is raised quite a lot – especially from high level executives. It might be argued that “doing good things” always makes sense. But in the end many activities and decisions are also investment decisions. Corporate Social Responsibility in…
From the 1st of April 2020, invited companies can open the DJSI CSA. To be eligible to the DJSI, a sustainable stock index, organizations need to fill the CSA – Corporate Sustainability Assessment from the company RobecoSAM together with S&P Global. Below you find the key information as well as further useful links about the DJSI CSA…
Happy New Year! The new year barely started and it is already time for planning your acivities around reporting and disclosure of your companies environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities and data. Several external recognition and disclosure bodies have very strict deadlines – other dates can be chosen by the company itself. This article focuses…
The DJSI 2019 results were released last Friday (13/09/2019). The DJSI, or Dow Jones Sustainability Index, is a stock exchange index, which includes Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria into the ranking. DJSI 2019: Participation keeps increasing In March 2019, a total of 3,519 companies were invited to take part in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment…
The acronym ESG is an English abbreviation which stands for ‘Environment’, ‘Social’ and ‘Governance’. What are ESG criteria? ESG criteria help investors to find out how sustainable a company behaves in order to be able to make more targeted investment decisions (e. g. to do risk assessments well). The ESG criteria are used by investors…
Das Akronym ESG ist eine englische Abkürzung und steht für „Environment“, „Social“ und „Governance“ (sprich: Umwelt, Soziales/Gesellschaft und Unternehmensführung/-struktur). Was sind ESG-Kriterien? ESG-Kriterien geben Investoren Aufschluss darüber, inwieweit sich ein Unternehmen nachhaltig verhält, um gezieltere Investitionsentscheidungen treffen zu können (bspw. um Risiken besser einschätzen zu können). Die ESG-Kriterien dienen den Investoren der kennzahlenbasierten Messung von…
The DJSI questionnaire “Corporate Sustainability Assessment” has now been shared with all invited companies. What is the DJSI questionnaire? The DJSI, or Dow Jones Sustainability Index, is a stock exchanges index, which includes Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria into the ranking. In order to be part of the DJSI, invited stock listed companies need…
Verbraucher fordern verstärkt die Umsetzung einer nachhaltigen unternehmerischen Strategie. Die Ermittlung eines Carbon Footprint als Ausgangspunkt für die Reduzierung von Treibhausgas-Emissionen wird somit immer wichtiger. Die DFGE hat 10 wichtige Gründe für das Emissionsmanagement in Unternehmen zusammengestellt. Die Erfassung aller Zusammenhänge um den Ausstoß klimarelevanter Gase und dessen Einbindung in unternehmerische Entscheidungsprozesse wird als Emissionsmanagement…
