The World Economic Forum released a set of 21 sustainability metrics Tuesday, along with guidelines that call for companies to move details about their environmental, social, and governance impacts into the pages of their annual financial reports.
Introduced in a document at the forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit, the metrics and guidelines are the fruit of several years of work. They represent perhaps the biggest step yet to rally companies, regulators, and standard-setters around a single set of ESG metrics and integrate them into mainstream financial reporting.
The business community is looking for global consistency and comparability ...
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