Metrics
Sustainability reporting received its latest upgrade with the launch of WEF’s ‘Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism’ white paper. If you were hoping for something new that pushes the boundaries of transparency, don’t hold your breath. This is about consolidation not creation – and there’s a need for that. The proliferation of non-financial reporting standards over the past 20 years, each promoting their version of best practice, has made it difficult for managers, investors and others to see the wood for the trees. Now they have a set of core and expanded metrics across four domains: Principles of Governance, Planet, People and Prosperity.
— Wayne Visser
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