The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Sustainability Practices in 2012 – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Sustainability Practices in 2012 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/08/09/sustainability-practices-in-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sustainability-practices-in-2012 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/08/09/sustainability-practices-in-2012/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:06:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=31597?d=20150113140717EST Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Editor's Note:

Matteo Tonello is managing director of corporate leadership at the Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to a Conference Board report authored by Dr. Tonello and Thomas Singer of the Conference Board. For details regarding how to obtain a copy, contact matteo.tonello@conference-board.org.

According to a new study recently released by The Conference Board, U.S. corporations continue to lag far behind their counterparts in other developed economies—notably , the European Union and Japan—in transparency of environmental and social practices. In particular, the overall disclosure rate of this type of information by U.S. companies in the Russell 1000 is 10 percent, compared to 19 percent for a global sample of 3000 business organizations tracked by Bloomberg’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) database.

The new report, Sustainability Practices: 2012 Edition—a collaboration between The Conference Board, Bloomberg, and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Focal Point USA—covers a total of 72 environmental and social practices including: atmospheric emissions, water consumption, biodiversity policies, labor standards, human rights practices, and charitable and political contributions. For benchmarking purposes, Bloomberg ESG data is compared with the S&P 500 and the Russell 1000, and further analyzed across 11 business sectors and four revenue groups.

The following are some of the other major findings discussed in the paper.

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