ACCP Releases Making the Case for CSR Toolkit; Builds Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
ACCP Releases Making the Case for CSR Toolkit; Builds Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
The Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) releases Making the Case Toolkit, to aid corporate citizenship professionals in building a data-driven business case for the importance of corporate social responsibility.
Published 01-27-21
January 27, 2021 /CSRwire/ - The Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) today released
Making the Case for CSR, a toolkit aimed at corporate citizenship professionals.
Making the Case for CSR is an online resource that includes curated, recent statistics from 25 sources and presents them in easy-to-use data points and infographics. This toolkit equips industry executives with a powerful and compelling data-driven case for corporate social responsibility (CSR) critical to gaining support and represen
Tilney Smith & Williamson bags ex-Vanguard boss for board
Vanguard AUM grew to $5.3trn under Bill McNabb’s tenure
Tilney Smith & Williamson has hired Vanguard’s former chairman and chief executive as a non-executive director.
Bill McNabb became CEO of Vanguard, the world’s largest mutual fund manager, in 2008 before retiring from the role in 2017 and continuing as chairman until 2018.
During his tenure, assets under management grew almost five-fold to $5.3trn (£3.9trn).
Since leaving Vanguard, McNabb has served in several non-executive roles, including as a board member of IBM and United Health Group, as well as global legal services firm Axiom.
This paper attempts to provide a definition and context for the term,
Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”), explain how and why it is used, demonstrate how investors are driving the proliferation of ESG reporting, illuminate how investor reliance on ESG information creates new risks for reporting companies, and suggest steps attorneys can take to help mitigate the risks. This paper also provides a short summary on some hot topics in the ESG world.
I. The Evolution of ESG Disclosures
A. What is ESG?
In basic terms, ESG is a collection of information about a company’s operations in three broad areas of activity: Environmental, Social and Governance. It is data-based as well as narrative, and typically static or backward-looking. Increasingly, ESG reporting is goal-oriented and aspirational. Oftentimes, ESG is used interchangeably with the term “sustainability.”