As one of the unofficial sustainability evangelists here at Rivet, I thought you might like to review 7 Sustainability Trends that Every CFO Needs to Know – courtesy of GreenBiz.com – and think about this:

Because of the large number of functional areas that report to the CFO, sustainability offers the CFO an opportunity to drive sustainability into the organization for cost savings and competitive differentiation. Your organization needs your leadership in this area.

Bob Schneider over at Hitachi has posted a useful article on the corporate actions taxonomy being worked on by the DTCC, SWIFT and XBRL US that references their interesting and thorough document - A Business Case to Improve Corporate Actions Communications. But when I read the post and the document it just makes me wonder – why is it only actions that “impact a security that has been traded, cleared, and settled on behalf of the investor” that are reported? What about all the actions that evidence the sustainability behaviour of a business and therefore have an impact on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) profile of the organization? Read the rest of this entry »