{"id":146525,"date":"2021-10-01T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=146525"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:49:41","slug":"despite-heightening-investor-pressure-few-companies-publicly-report-on-sustainability-spheras-new-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=146525","title":{"rendered":"Despite Heightening Investor Pressure, Few Companies Publicly Report on Sustainability, Sphera\u2019s New Survey Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CHICAGO, Oct 1 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212;<\/strong>&nbsp;Though pressure is growing from all corners\u2014from investors, to governments, to boards of directors\u2014companies worldwide struggle to report progress on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals. Indeed, just 38% of businesses publicly communicate their sustainability performance, according to a new survey from Sphera<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, a leading global provider of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=NK1QqtV-CQSbkPzgnuKOcIYXdUofzWJ3kOKLvGZsko6-vGSh_C-o0Usf7fNA_GTpL3y7HV55ZGfb4P72R2nMpw==\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESG<\/a>&nbsp;performance and risk management software, data and consulting services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just a matter of disclosing progress on their objectives, however; companies are also behind the curve when it comes to clearly setting their ESG goals in the first place. Less than one-third (29%) of the respondents said they have set and communicated their sustainability targets, and even fewer\u201416%\u2014have set emissions targets in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=41154\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=41154\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=41154<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Oct 1 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;Though pressure is growing from all corners\u2014from investors, to governments, to boards of directors\u2014companies worldwide struggle to report progress on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals. Indeed, just 38% of businesses publicly communicate their sustainability performance, according to a new survey from Sphera\u00ae, a leading global provider of&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;performance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}