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By Zach Bernstein

With Election Day 2014 well behind us, it’s time to look at just how much things have changed in the political world. One thing that’s not up for debate: A lot has changed. One thing that is debatable: What’s going to happen as a result.

For proponents of a sustainable economy, this election offered some very encouraging signs. Voters continued to show their support for raising the minimum wage and offering paid time off to workers, including in states represented by people who oppose taking those steps. The electorate, on these issues, is more forward-thinking than many of its representatives.

This shouldn’t be surprising.  Despite being controversial in Congress or other legislative bodies, policies like these are incredibly popular with voters (and, as recent polling has shown, small business owners). Policymakers on both sides of the aisle would be wise to take those lessons into account going forward.

Before the election, we wrote about certain races to keep an eye on. In a lot of cases, those races featured two candidates with very different positions on top issues facing our economy, like environmental protections and renewable energy growth, health care, agriculture, and more. And not all of those races came at the federal level -- some were ballot initiatives at the state level.

Now that the election is over, what are we to make of the new political landscape? Let’s recap some election results at three different levels, and see what they tell us about the political debate going forward.

Congress

Thirty-six Senate seats, as well as every House seat, were up for grabs this year. Republicans had hoped to flip at least six Senate seats currently held by Democrats to give their party the majority. As of mid-November, they had gained eight, with the potential for at least one more in Louisiana. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ two best chances to flip seats their way – in Kentucky and Georgia - ultimately fizzled.

In the House, meanwhile, the GOP’s majority has grown. The bottom line, then, is that both houses of Congress will be controlled by the GOP for the next two years, setting up the chance for more confrontation – or compromise – with President Obama.

Governors

Meanwhile, 36 states voted on who was going to lead their state government. With Congress expected to remain gridlocked, states could play a vital role in setting the agenda going forward. Again, the GOP had a better-than-expected night when it came to choosing governors.

Perhaps most notable here was how many Republicans won in Democratic-leaning states. Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland all elected Republican chief executives. Several GOP governors previously viewed as vulnerable – including Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Rick Scott in Florida, Paul LePage in Maine – also pulled out victories. (Democrats did flip one governor’s mansion, ousting Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania.)

If Congress remains gridlocked, states will play a major role in moving sustainable policies forward - or blocking them.

Ballot Initiatives

Another area where states can leapfrog Congress is with ballot initiatives. Four states featured minimum wage hikes on the ballot; a fifth, Illinois, had a nonbinding referendum. Massachusetts also had a paid sick leave initiative for voters to consider, while Oregon and Colorado voters got to vote on GMO labeling laws.

All minimum wage initiatives passed, three of them with at least 60 percent support (Nebraska’s also passed with 59 percent). On a local level, San Francisco voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Massachusetts’ paid leave initiative, meanwhile, passed with 60 percent support, making Massachusetts the third state to guarantee paid time off for workers.

The GMO labeling bills had a tougher time, with both going down to defeat, although Oregon’s failed only narrowly. Opponents of the measures spent $20 million to defeat them, close to three times the amount raised by supporters - a tactic used in earlier GMO initiatives in California and Washington state.

Initiatives on another top issue, fracking, had mixed results. Voters in one California county, San Benito, successfully banned the practice, although a similar measure in Santa Barbara County failed. One result was particularly encouraging, though: Voters in the Texas community of Denton, which has several hundred fracked wells already, also voted to ban it.

What Now?

Nobody’s entirely sure what will happen next on the federal level. Will Republicans decide to work with President Obama to pass compromise legislation, or continue taking an aggressive stance against policies like the Affordable Care Act and climate change rules? We’ll have to wait and see.

We also don’t know how heavily President Obama will continue to favor executive actions on issues like immigration. What we do know is that executive action cannot have the same impact as legislation from Congress. Whether that kind of compromise will be possible is something we won’t know for a few months, if then.

A lot has been made of how this election is a signal that Americans want both parties to work together to solve the problems facing this country. The political landscape has changed a great deal – not just in terms of who will be representing Americans in Congress and in statehouses, but also in terms of what we can expect from those representatives in the next two years. One thing’s for certain: We can expect more uncertainty ahead.

Zach Bernstein is Research Associate for the American Sustainable Business Council. Policy Points is produced by the American Sustainable Business Council. The editor is Richard Eidlin, Vice President – Public Policy and Business Engagement.

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A number of different groups came out this week in support of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the rule that will allow the agency to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Power plants emits nearly one-third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and they comprise the largest contributing sector. The goal of the rule will be to reduce those emissions by 30 percent compared to 2005, by the year 2030. Republicans in Congress are hoping to block the rule. Transportation, which is the second largest sector, is already being addressed in various ways including updated fuel economy standards. These improved standards have helped to keep American cars competitive with high efficiency models from overseas. An additional rule addressing heavy duty trucks also took effect this year with impressive results.

This week, the advocacy group Ceres hosted a conference call in which they, acting as a spokesman for a wide array of companies across numerous industries, presented a letter of support for the EPA rule signed by 223 companies. They had a number of industry representatives on hand to speak out in support of government policy action on climate change. Ceres president Mindy Lubber said it well in her opening comments.

“Today’s press event affirms that companies and investors are supporting solutions to tackling climate change. More than ever before, businesses are setting ambitious goals to reduce their own energy use, lower their carbon footprint, and source more and more renewable energy. They’re achieving these goals and in so doing, they’re improving their bottom line and helping the environment. These companies also recognize that their voluntary actions alone are not enough. Lowering carbon pollution at the scale and during the time frames that are needed to avoid catastrophic temperature increases requires stronger policies. That’s why hundreds of companies have signed the Ceres climate declaration, a business led call-to-action that urges Federal and State policymakers to adopt clean energy policies that will enable companies to seize the clear economic opportunities of addressing climate change.”

Other speakers included Tim  Brown,  President  and  Chief  Executive  Officer,  Nestlé  Waters North  America; John  Gardner,  Chief  Sustainability  Officer,  Novelis  Inc.; Dan  Probst,  Chairman  of  Energy  and  Sustainability Services,  Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL); Sandy  Taft,  Director  of  U.S. Energy  and  Sustainability  Policy,  National  Grid; and Donna  Carpenter,  Chief  Executive  Officer,  Burton  Snowboards.

John Gardner of Novalis (Aluminum) praised the plan’s flexibility in including energy efficiency (EE) as a means for power providers to reduce carbon emissions, noting that EE is, “the cleanest, cheapest, and most readily available energy resource to help states cut their carbon emissions.”

Tim Brown made an excellent point, in response to criticism that has been leveled at the plan by the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations that consider themselves pro-business, alleging that this rule will increase costs.

‘Yes, power and energy is an important input cost and may increase over the short term. But if you look over a longer time horizon, we have other input costs, like crops and water, and we see those costs potentially increasing dramatically as the result of climate change. So in looking at the sustainability of our business model long term, we think it’s important to take these measures to stabilize our input costs, and not just look at very short time horizons.”

Clean energy prices, which are already plummeting, are expect to drop below current levels over time. But more importantly, short term thinking and a failure to consider the larger picture is what got us into this problem in the first place. That kind of thinking will no longer serve us today, and in fact it is likely to do us harm.

In related news, the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, a group of259 state legislators also came out in support of the rule. In a strongly worded letter the group, whose membership includes roughly 15 percent Republicans, urged even stronger action (not all members signed the letter).

“We believe the Clean Power Plan could achieve even more pollution reductions with higher renewable energy and energy efficiency goals for states, and we support EPA moving in that direction.”

The 2030 EPA targets for renewable energy generation are below what has already been enacted in 17 states. NCEL Board Chair Rep. Pricey Harrison from North Carolina calls clean energy, “an American success story,” citing the fact that, “it is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the United States and already employs 360,000 jobs in the U.S., far more than the coal industry’s 87,000 – solar alone employs 143,000 people and grew 20 percent last year.”

It is beginning to look like we are finally at or near a tipping point. Those that continue to spout wishful thinking or conspiracy theories in the face of clear scientific consensus, or those who simply refuse to act, are finding themselves outnumbered, surrounded and out-reasoned by an American public that is finally catching up with the rest of the world.

Keep in mind that this EPA action was only necessitated by the inability of Congress to act in the face of increasingly urgent news.

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RP Siegel, PE, is an author, inventor and consultant. He has written for numerous publications ranging from Huffington Post to Mechanical Engineering. He and Roger Saillant co-wrote the successful eco-thriller Vapor Trails. RP, who is a regular contributor to Triple Pundit and Justmeans, sees it as his mission to help articulate and clarify the problems and challenges confronting our planet at this time, as well as the steadily emerging list of proposed solutions. His uniquely combined engineering and humanities background help to bring both global perspective and analytical detail to bear on the questions at hand.

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“People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek

Has someone recently sent you a link to a well-written short article about something funny or informative or enraging or weird? Chances are it came from The Huffington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning online destination for breaking news from all over the web. But, until I attended the workshop on “Driving Impact Through Digital Media” at the Social Innovation Summit (November 19-20) in Silicon Valley, I didn’t realize that The Huffington Post publishes a section devoted to social impact called Huffpost Impact. And, Huffpost has partnered with companies to sponsor the distribution of that content as part of their CSR programs. I sat down with Brian Sirgutz, Senior Vice President of Social Impact at The Huffington Post, to learn more about it.

Social media for social change Sirgutz started Huffpost Impact in October 2009 when he was President of Causecast. “I did not have a typical media background when I co-founded Causecast,” Sirgutz told me, “but I wanted to build a platform that would let people tell stories that would drive impact for social change.” With more than 90,000 bloggers posting content to Huffington Post, and an every-second news cycle, it can be difficult to hold people’s attention on the stories that matter the most. It’s even harder to translate those stories into action for social change. Sirgutz wants to change that. The rapid explosion of the Internet as a primary distribution point for content has challenged many businesses but it has also created new opportunities to engage people in topics they really care about. “Social media allow people to express their integrity,” Sirgutz noted. “Huffpost Good News took off like a rocket – it’s twice as likely as other content to be shared. People want to share it because it represents their values. We want to evolve the publishing model to become the next way we will connect with each other.” Values-based marketing Scanning the Huffpost Impact categories – Opportunity, Impact^x, Global Motherhood, Food for Thought, Millennial Impact, Everyday Heroes, Inspiring Leaders, Love Matters, and Veterans – you notice that many of these channels are sponsored by companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Chipotle, NRG, and Cisco. “This is a step beyond advertising,” explains Sirgutz. “Companies can sponsor a distribution channel dedicated to topics they care about.” Huffpost Impact editors retain all editorial control over what content is published, but mission-aligned sponsors (and they do have to be mission-aligned with the topic) can underwrite a channel. Cisco’s Impact^x Sirgutz’s co-panelist at the summit, Mary Anne Petrillo, Global Senior Manager of CSR Digital Strategy at Cisco, is an Impact sponsor. Impact^x , “where people, technology, and social impact converge,” provides an editorial hub where like-minded nonprofits can scale their mission. According to Petrillo, providing a high-impact vehicle for others to tell their story has been a very successful and satisfying way for Cisco to meet its objectives in corporate social responsibility. “Huffington Post drives eyeballs,” she noted, “and that drives funding dollars.” The future of CSR Many of the social media producers and architects I talked with at the summit agreed that in an era when consumers expect all content to be free, distribution is the new currency of the online marketplace. If companies want their audiences to pay attention to their message, they must deliver something those audiences care about. Which begs the question, is sponsorship of online information distribution channels a good way for companies to inspire others to act with conscience and charity? In this era when rapid response to global climate, energy, and human health concerns are vital, my hope is that the answer is yes. Images appear with permission. Julie Noblitt is Community Manager at Benetech, a nonprofit that develops and uses technology to create positive social change, and an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco.

The United Nations climate negotiators are meeting once again, this time in Lima, Peru, where—as we have heard before—we will hear promises of making significant progress on climate change. All eyes are on India, which, like China, is often criticized for dragging its feet on developing a solid plan on climate change. Of course, those charges are often unfair, considering these two countries are the workshops for the world. If the U.S. had a real manufacturing sector, this country would be an even more massive polluter. With China taking bolder steps in addressing its carbon footprint, all eyes are now on India. The odds are that the world’s second most populous nation will make a big announcement this week at this week’s Lima climate change conference.

According to India’s daily Business Standard, the Indian government is keen on making “fresh and enhanced commitments to the international community.”

The recent agreement between China and the U.S. to tackle greenhouse gas emissions has apparently nudged the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commission studies to analyze and project India’s future greenhouse gas emissions. Past climate agreements have given developing countries such as India more leeway in formulating their emissions trajectory. In the joint statement with the U.S., China announced its overall greenhouse gas emissions would peak in 2030 and then start their annual decline. Business Standard’s sources in the Modi government are supposedly unimpressed with the joint U.S.-China declaration. Of course, that would mean India would have to up the ante, so all eyes are on the subcontinent as India determines its “peak emissions” year.

One reasons the constant harping on India’s carbon emissions comes across as hypocritical is that its per capita carbon footprint is one-tenth that of the U.S. (and four percent of the per capita emissions of Qatar, a country that loves to tout its “progress” on climate). As the argument goes, countries such as India and China are only trying to do what industrialized nations including the U.S. and Great Britain achieved for their citizens over the course of two centuries.

But rolling out a plan with teeth would also benefit millions of Indians, too. Projects that could help lower India’s carbon emissions, such as a proposed huge investment in solar, could help bring electricity to the 300 million or so Indians who have no electricity. Many Indians also rely on dirty and dirty fuels such as kerosene for light and cooking. Therefore, clean energy technologies such as solar and microgrids can engender massive social change in India through bypassing the grid—akin to how much of the world took a step forward by skipping landlines and adopting cellular technologies. What could come out of Lima this week is more than another government promising a goal to appease environmentalists and western governments; it could deliver progress and hope for the millions of Indians who lack energy access. Such a change could bring more economic opportunities, a better shot at education for young people and increased empowerment for women.

Leon Kaye is based in California and most recently worked for a renewable energy investment company in the Middle East. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter. Other thoughts of his are on his site, greengopost.com.

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Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing student blogging series entitled The Business Of Sports & Sustainability. This “micro-blog” is the product of the nations first MBA/MPA certificate program dedicated to sustainability in the sports industry. You can follow the series here.

By Katie Levine

Stadiums and arenas at the professional and collegiate levels, and across leagues from the NHL to the NFL have begun the transition to what is becoming known as the 21st century light source: LED technology. Emitting more light per watt, LEDs require significantly less energy than traditional lighting solutions.

As lighting is typically the second largest energy consumer in sporting venues, installing LED lighting systems offers facility managers one of the fastest paybacks among all the potential energy efficiency upgrades, averaging as little as two to three years. LEDs reduce energy costs up to 75 percent and also provide significant maintenance cost savings, because they last far longer than other lights – typically up to 50,000 hours and some more than 225,000 hours.

These economic wins are matched by environmental benefits including lowered greenhouse gas emissions due to their reduced energy usage. As a result, LEDs have become a go-to choice for operators and leagues looking for viable ways to advance their greening initiatives.

The upstate NY-based company Ephesus Lighting is at the fore of aiding this transition to LED lighting systems within the sporting world. Its engineers outfitted the first arena to make the move to a LED lighting system in 2012, the Syracuse War Memorial. Since then, Ephesus has completed more than 30 indoor arenas and outdoor stadiums, partnering with organizations including the NHL's Ottawa Senators, and most recently the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals. As a result of its work, the 2015 Super Bowl will be the first one played under LEDs.

Being on one of sports' biggest stages is sure to influence further adoption in facilities at all levels. Joe Casper, Ephesus' Co-Founder and CTO, describes the coming change.

“If you go back three years ago, education was definitely needed, but by this past summer things had totally shifted. It's not about education any longer. Based on the successes that have occurred, it’s now a technology that most people feel comfortable with. Getting the Syracuse War Memorial to take this technology on, the first AHL team to do it, really paved the way for the adoption occurring today.”

Besides energy savings, the primary factors driving adoption across sports venues are player performance and fan experience. LED lighting systems impact these areas because they enable more precise light directionality, dimming, and the ability to modulate color to optimize viewer experience. It’s also of note that LEDs provide immediate on and off switching. Anyone who remembers the 34-min outage at a Super Bowl two years ago understands how important that feature is in the sporting world.

While daylight is still known to provide the best conditions for athletes to perform in, LEDs can approximate daylight. This allows players, officials and fans to better see the spin of a ball or specific on-court or on-field movements. At the same time, LED lighting systems can be used like theatrical lights, creating firework or chaser effects in a single, easily customized solution. These kinds of added experience features help bring fans to stadium seats, rather than staying home on their couches.

Even with all of LEDs’ benefits, the transition to these new lighting systems will not be immediate. New construction opportunities for stadiums and arenas are limited, and retrofit projects have both upfront costs and technical engineering considerations to take into account. The leagues most likely to lead the way in adoption are the ones with the most games per season -- baseball and basketball -- because facility owners will have the greatest opportunity to see speedy returns on their investments.

Switching can be a more challenging proposition for NFL stadiums and arenas, because they may only host ten games per season. However,alternate stadium uses including concerts, private events, and exhibition games may increase operators’ financial incentives to make the move.

With several hundred pro and semi-pro sports venues across all leagues, and thousands of sports facilities on college campuses, there is plenty of adoption yet to occur. We’re just seeing the bright beginnings of this new wave in energy efficiency and sports.

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Katie Levine is Vice President at Underground. She consults with clients in the social impact space to create strategies, campaigns and communication materials that inspire action.

"From a business perspective, we look at diversity as a way to help us make better business decisions, to make sure that we're innovative," Antoine Andrews, director of global diversity and inclusion for Symantec, said at the 2014 Net Impact conference.

"I like to use the term 'insider' and 'outsider.' We've all been in situations where we were either an insider or an outsider," he continued.

"So, if you look at inclusion from that perspective -- of how to help people get comfortable in environments, to be able to be a little bit more creative, to be able to challenge the status quo -- really helps organizations get into a better place."

As part of our Talking Diversity video series, Andrews went on to describe his role at Symantec -- and how he leverages diversity to help departments within the company become more innovative and recruit top talent -- in this 90-second clip.

Antoine L. Andrews is Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion for Symantec Corporation, where he oversees the execution of Symantec’s global diversity strategy, which focuses on the company’s ability to attract, develop, promote and retain diverse talent to help them make better business decisions and deliver innovative products and services to their customers. He is also responsible for elevating Symantec’s global Employee Resource Groups to be seen as a strategic partners in developing the company’s internal diverse talent and becoming an internal voice for diverse customers.

"One of the things that I find really interesting in talking about diversity, and in practicing diversity within my company, is: As you start to look at and try to define what the 'value' is, oftentimes you find that you're having conversations that run parallel to the conversations that we have when we're trying to articulate the business case for sustainability," Laura Clise said at the 2014 Net Impact conference.

"What I think is really fundamental is that both are focused on the translation of and the impact of looking at corporate values and then linking that to value creation."

Clise, who serves as director of external communications and corporate citizenship for Areva, moderated a panel on diversity and inclusion at the conference in Minneapolis last month. She even wrote a 90-second rap to kick things off. (If your day could use a boost, do yourself a favor and check it out here.)

As part of our Talking Diversity video series, Clise talks about the difference between diversity and inclusion -- and how anyone, regardless of background, can be an ally and an advocate for diversity -- in the following clip.

Laura Clise is the Director of External Communications & Corporate Citizenship at AREVA Inc. and a 2013 Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow. She is responsible for corporate citizenship, stakeholder engagement, public relations, and executive communications. She previously led AREVA Inc.’s Sustainable Development department, overseeing the development and deployment of the company's first regional sustainability strategy and supplier diversity program.

Before joining AREVA Inc., Laura’s sustainability experience included work for the U.N. Global Compact, Intel Corporation, and Business for Social Responsibility. She began her career in brand management at General Mills and subsequently worked for McMaster-Carr Supply Company, where she led the international sales operations department.

Laura received an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a BA in International Relations from Carleton College.

The environmental movement has long-struggled to diversify. Meanwhile, rapid demographic changes make the need for broader engagement all the more imperative. In Colorado this is truly a force: Within 6 years, 52 percent of high school students will be Latino -- these teens will soon be the adults on whom the future of the state will depend.

For Irene Vilar, the founder of the Americas Latino Eco-Festival, diversifying isn't difficult - she argues that Latino cultures in the U.S. and globally are inherently deeply ecologically aware because of traditional indigenous-based reverence for the earth. In fact, as she said at the Colorado Climate Summit in Nov., the poll findings are that "96 percent of Latinos believe in climate change" - findings that replicated elsewhere, including an NRDC poll that showed 68 percent of Republican Latinos want government action to prevent climate change.

Vilar, originally from Puerto Rico and now in Boulder by way of Vermont, started the Americas Latino Eco Festival two years ago, held in September in Boulder and Denver for six days of films, art, music, hikes, parties, and workshops. The festival, the first of its kind in the U.S., lures in arts and culture lovers and then exposes them to green themes, lifestyles, and attitudes.

There is so much there, just looking at the program: the stories of the environmentalism of Chico Mendes and Cesar Chavez, standup by Rick Najera, panels on Latino urbanism in the U.S. and how Chicago is adopting the sustainability practices of Curitiba, Brazil.

Providing the stories of environmental leadership in Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas has been particularly important for young people, Vilar told the Summit. There is a significant kids' component to the festival, including cartoons and participatory art.

"Mother Earth has been the backbone of the indigenous peoples of the Hemisphere for more than 20.000 years. Today it still drives the spirit of the Americas of the South...it resonates in their religions, their social structures, their agricultural practices, and their arts and crafts," writes Vilar in her introduction to the festival.

"Reverence for Mother Earth and what we now call ecosystems and ecology is not a recent achievement but an organizing metaphor for daily survival and resilience. Reconnecting with our “Green” legacy and infusing the shifting demographics of the North with the ecological legacy of the South is the new shade of green."

Vilar is an editor and publisher by day, and the Festival is one of many arts and cultural projects born from her umbrella organization, Americas for Conservation and the Arts. AC+As has other initiatives including a sustainable food initiative and the Americas Latino Book Awards.

"Art unites everyone," says Vilar. "It doesn't use normative language, and it doesn't have an accent."

You can see some of the clips and programming on the ALEF Youtube channel here.

 

 

 

"We need to build on the diversity efforts that we've been engaged in over the last few decades," Deena Hayes-Greene, of the Greensboro, North Carolina-based Racial Equity Institute (REI), said at the 2014 Net Impact conference.

"I think we've done an effective job, for the most part, in changing the complexion of the people in organizations. I don't know if we have diversified the realities of the people that work in there."

Hayes-Greene serves as managing director for REI, an organization with a vision to "optimize institutional outcomes for everyone." As part of our Talking Diversity video series, she goes on to describe sequential inequities that still exist in business and society -- and what can be done to address them -- in this two-minute clip.

Deena Hayes-Greene is the managing director for the Racial Equity Institute. For the last 11 years, she has been a proud member of the Guilford County Board of Education in Greensboro, NC. Greene's educational background is in Psychology, African American Studies and Justice and Policy Studies.

A group of investors, an NGO, a think tank and an investor research agency, have launched a project to rank companies on their human rights performance. A total of 500 of the top global companies from four key sectors - Agriculture, ICT, Apparel, and Extractives - will initially be researched and ranked to establish the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) .

The CHRB Steering Group is made up of Aviva Investors, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Calvert Investments, EIRIS, Institute for Human Rights and Business and VBDO.

Steve Waygood of Aviva Investors said: "Our Benchmark will introduce a positive competitive environment as companies try to race to the top of the annual ranking. It will also shine a light on those where performance needs to improve.

“It took more than 60 years from the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights before the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were developed. We believe that within six years of their approval, we can help to make these Guiding Principles routine corporate practice through the development and use of the Benchmark."

The Benchmark portal will be housed on the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre website here.

 

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