The Sustainability Governance Scorecard© is an impact research to identify how the best companies conduct their sustainability. efforts. The Scorecard not only identifies and provides information about the state of the Global Sustainability Leaders (GSLs), but also highlights good examples from which the world could learn.
The Scorecard analyzes publicly available data of GSLs through a ‘governance lens’, as good governance is the key to the sustainability of the sustainability efforts. This impact research is seeking to identify whether the GSLs have the right processes, people, incentives, and culture to provide good governance (guidance and oversight) over their sustainability efforts; the coverage of their sustainability efforts are comprehensive in terms of stakeholders, value chain and geographies, and continuous improvement is embedded in their efforts through a learning loop.
The GSLs analyzed are 150 leading public companies trading at key stock exchanges which are signatories of Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative. The scope of the analysis is limited with the companies who are included in the sustainability indices of stock exchanges in China, Germany, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom, and United States of America. 10 sectors are selected among those companies.
The SG Scorecard has two key conclusions and expected impact:
• There is significant room for improvement in the effectiveness of execution and accountability of the sustainability programs of even the leading companies, let alone the large number of enterprises all around the world.
• There is extensive peer-to-peer learning opportunities based on good practices shared by the Global Sustainability Leaders on how they approach their sustainability efforts.
The SG Scorecard and our results could be utilized by many stakeholders including boards and managements of companies, investors, regulators, civil society organizations, academia, and the representatives of the press for peer learning, identifying good examples, improving accountability and investment decisions.
Start: 01 May, 2018Completion: 30 June, 2019
