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Sustainability Practice Network: 2005-6 Meeting Program
September 20, 2005
Defining the Landscape in Responsible Media
January 17, 2006
Follow the Money: Recent Innovations in Social Investing
March 14th, 2006
Market Transformation and Climate Change: Opportunities,
Risks and Investments
April 11, 2006
Assuring Sustainability: The Role of Verification in CSR Reporting
September 20, 2005
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Defining the Landscape in Responsible Media
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Venue: NYU Stern School of Business, Faculty Lounge
Panelists: Michael Connor, Publisher & Executive Editor of Business Ethics magazine, Jon Friedman, Writer of Market Watch's Media Web column, Birgitte Rasine, Founder of Lucita, a socially conscious design and communications company
Moderator: Simran Sethi, host/writer of Ethical Markets
Media and communications are fundamental channels for disseminating information on the activities of socially responsible companies to stakeholders.
But how do media companies themselves incorporate CSR into their operations? How is responsibility in communications understood and being implemented?
This panel of representatives of major media companies will expand and explore the definition of Socially Responsible Media.
 Meeting Notes
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January 17, 2006
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Follow the Money: Recent Innovations in Social Investing
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Venue: 320 West 13th Street, New Visions for Public Schools
Panelists: Peter Lewis, Partner, Developing World Markets (Microfinance Funds), Henry Lanier, Partner, Forsyth Street Advisors, (New York City Acquisition Fund that supports affordable housing developers); and
Philipp Kauffmann, United Nations Development Program (Small to Medium-sized Enterprises in Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Eco-Tourism)
Moderator: Steve Godeke
Philanthropists, For-Profit Corporations, and Private and Public Investors are working together in transactions that offer both financial and
social returns. We will explore how these "strange bedfellows" are creating value through innovative social investment structures.
Agenda
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March 14, 2006
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Market Transformation and Climate Change: Opportunities,
Risks and Investments
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Venue: Citigroup Smith Barney, Executive Conference Room
Panelists: Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates, Inc.; Dale Bryk, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; Marc Brammer, Director of Research, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors; William B. Ellis, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, formerly Chairman and CEO, Northeast Utilities
Moderator: Bruce Kahn, Smith Barney bruce.m.kahn@smithbarney.com, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
A scientific consensus that has all but ended the debate on climate change has spawned many initiatives to address climate change using market mechanisms. Local governments, institutional and private investors, as well as global private companies are calling for
carbon to be regulated and investment risk to be quantified. This panel will explore local efforts to limit emissions, quantify climate risk and understand how companies are responding through voluntary standards, local regulation, and the trading of carbon.
Bruce Kahn Opening Remarks
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 Carbon Risk for Investors
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Dale Bryk
300k Powerpoint download
Is Business Paying Attention
368k Powerpoint download
Peter Fusaro
176k Powerpoint download
April 11, 2006
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Assuring Sustainability: The Role of Verification in CSR Reporting
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Venue: Consolidated Edison, Four Irving Place
Panelists: Dr. Helen Macdonald, Director, Community Relations & Social Development, Newmont Mining Corporation
Paul Hilton, Director of SRI Marketing, Calvert
Kiku Loomis, President, World Monitors, Inc.
Michelle Dow, Consultant, The Corporate Citizenship Company
Moderator: Michael Gresty, gresty@kinetixllc.com, assisted by
Kathee Rebernak
Expectations that corporations be accountable for their "triple bottom line" performance have never been greater, yet many sustainability
reports provide little in the way of third party assurance. Although such assurance is on the rise internationally, KPMG's 2005 International
Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting finds that U.S. companies are dramatically lagging behind, providing fewer assurance statements
than firms in 15 other industrialized nations. It appears that despite the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for transparency in corporate affairs
and governance, most U.S., firms are still reluctant to submit to, or pay for, independent assurance. And those firms that do hire external
assurance providers face criticism that the assurance statements only verify reporting processes rather than the data itself. Are these criticisms
fair? How far should assurance providers go to guarantee the credibility of non-financial data? And how can such assurance efforts better reflect
the concerns of stakeholders?
Agenda
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Presentations
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