HSBC have written a set of guidelines that set standards for responsible/sustainable investment in five major sectors.

UNEP Launches Green Economy Initiative to Get the Global Markets Back to Work

Date: June 2008A report and interactive webtool that rates and ranks the efforts of 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to increase universal access to medicine

We manage what we measure (and report) - it's a truism, but no less valid for that.  We believe that the time is now right to ask whether we have been measuring the right things in the right way and communicating them appropriately to the right people.

In this speech, delivered to the Meeting of the Experts Group on Disclosure of Non-Financial Information by Companies, Dr. Steve Waygood discusses the need for greater levels, and uniformity, of discloure by companies on non-financial issues in order to better ensure long-term, sustainable, value creation for both investors and their investee companies. Dr. Waygood goes on to address four key questions regarding how and why to proceed with this aim, and sets out Aviva Investors' position.