The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and Arabesque Asset Management explored, in a report, more than 200 academic studies and sources dealing with sustainability, with a focus on the connection between corporate social responsibility and profitability. According to the report, ‘responsibility and profitability are not incompatible, but in fact wholly complementary’. Overall, from the studies reviewed, three highly important findings emerged: The report’s conclusions 80% of the world’s 250 largest companies report in accordance with the GRI Standards SustainCase was primarily created to demonstrate, through case studies, the importance of dealing with a company’s most important impacts in a structured way, with use of the GRI Standards. To show how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success – and how you can too. Research by well-recognised institutions is clearly proving that responsible companies can look to the future with optimism. FBRH GRI Standards Certified and IEMA approved Sustainability Course | Venue: London LSE By registering for the next 2-day FBRH GRI-Standards Certified and IEMA approved Course you will be taking the first step in gaining the many benefits of sustainability reporting. References: This article was compiled using a report by The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and Arabesque Asset Management. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses but made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original please revert to the link below: http://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/research/
Three key findings regarding the relationship between sustainability and the cost of capital, operational performance, and stock price performance
performance and investment returns’.