John Davies

One member asks, "For those members who've used external consultants to help develop their climate change strategy, I'd love to hear what consultants you've used that you would recommend. In particular, I'm interested in consultants used to assist with the following: • Develop science-based targets • Assess climate risks/opportunities and develop a climate resiliency strategy • Assist with CDP reporting • Verify your carbon footprint and/or climate change targets and progress towards them Read More

One of our members shares, "we don’t currently have anything resembling site-level “green teams,” and they could be useful to support both the sustainability function and employee engagement in a changing culture. When I went looking for information and resources online, everything I found was about ten years old. So I’m curious if companies have recent experience with green teams, or if they have faded away or morphed into something else – and if so, why? I’d love to hear from the group or see any resources you have both to help make the case for/against the idea, and to help green teams get set up if we decide to do that." Read More

One member asks, "Has your company ever hosted a sustainability-related activity as part of a Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day event? We are planning to host children ages 8-12 at our offices and would like to engage them in a fun, creative and educational activity. Are there any examples of activities you can share for children in this age range that teaches them about sustainability?" Read More

A new era of investor accountability is driving new processes at NRG, Prologis and Salesforce. Read More

With the release of the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in June 2017, companies face growing pressures to disclose not only how the company is impacting the environment, but also to provide insights on how climate change may affect corporate performance. Read More

One member writes, "Mfg. leadership is looking for a single metric to encompass sustainability/environmental performance at the mfg plant level (not health & safety or enviro compliance). Are there examples of other companies that have created something like this that takes into account energy, waste, and water? (Or other similar). We're interested in how folks have normalized or weighted the different kinds of measurement for each impact area to get to a single representation?” Read More

One member asks, "What companies are publicly disclosing their workforce data, broken down by more than gender and region (e.g. age, nationality, disability, etc.)? If they are disclosing, what information about their workforce are they sharing?" Read More

This is one of those evergreen questions but we really haven't documented member responses since 2014 so it's probably good to check back in with members. As one member asks, "Does anyone use software for Sustainability (e.g. Enablon, Intelex, Dakota or self-developed)? What type of data do you collect? What is the functionality of the software?" Read More

One member writes, "We are issuing an RFP for our very first sustainability report in 2019, and I’d like to send the RFP to multiple agencies. Any member recommendations?" Read More

One member asks, "Are there any companies using Benevity and Marketo software in connection with one another to promote collection of volunteer hours by employees? Anyone have some excellent examples of programs they have used to kickstart (build awareness and/or input hours) the gathering of employee volunteer hours?" Read More