Sustainability @Scale 2015 - Dunstan Allison-Hope
summary
Debate argues sustainability reporting both works and falters: investors managing $4.8 trillion say data quality is “abysmal” and need comparable, material metrics; a live poll shows about half the audience uses reports to inform decisions and roughly 2:1 say reports improve performance. Firms cite tools and standards used — GRI, SASB, IIRC, CDP — with 72% of the S&P 500 publishing reports and ~60% using GRI; examples: one company trims a 200‑page report down, another publishes a 50‑page fact‑driven report, and data aggregators (MSCI/Bloomberg) are used to scale analysis.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11Sustainability reporting matters
- 8:13Investor perspective on flaws
- 13:26Defending reporting benefits
- 18:25Company experience with complexity
- 22:19Flexibility versus comparability
- 25:48Q&A
- 37:04Live audience questions and responses
- 47:26Closing remarks
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