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Rory Sullivan's new book about corporate responsibility reporting is worth a read. I have to say that the stuff I like best in it is where he is honest about the limitations of responsible investment, because few people are willing to say this stuff publicly ... Full post... - labour and capital blog, 19 May 2011 - Tom Powdrill Written by Rory Sullivan, one of the world's leading experts on responsible investment, Valuing Corporate Responsibility provides insights that anyone responsible for or involved in CSR reporting should know and understand ... Regardless of one's position on these two issues, Rory Sullivan's book presents a challenging and well-informed analysis of some of the key issues related to valuing corporate responsibility. As such, it is a concise and noteworthy contribution to what is often a complex and polarized debate. Full post... - CSR Europe, 6 May 2011 - Colleen M. Fletcher Most corporate responsibility professionals approach the task of reporting in much the same way as spending Christmas with the in-laws: they grit their teeth at the prospect, try to keep from screaming during the event, and pray they don't have to repeat it once it's all over. Social and environmental reporting is time-consuming, labour-intensive and expensive. So what's the value? Well, more than you might think, argues social responsibility investment guru Rory Sullivan ... Full post... - Ethical Corporation's Management Blog, 1 May 2011 - Oliver Balch

Responsible investment has become mainstream. But, despite the volume of CR reports, reporters aren't giving investors the information they need. This book aims to get reporters and the investment community speaking a common language.

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Dr Rory Sullivan is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and a Strategic Advisor to Ethix SRI Advisors. He was previously Head of Responsible Investment at Insight Investment, where he established Insight Investment as one of the world's leading investment managers for the manner in which it integrated environmental, social and governance issues into its investment processes and for the quality of its engagement with companies and governments on social and environmental issues. Rory is an internationally recognised expert on the investment implications of climate change. He has researched the investment implications of climate change (regulation and adaptation) for a range of sectors, including electricity utilities, aviation, water utilities, oil, gas and mining, and infrastructure, evaluated the climate change strategies of major UK and European companies, and engaged with these companies to encourage them to improve their management of their greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. He also has played a leading role in public policy debates on mandatory carbon reporting and on the design and implementation of policy measures that would facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. He has been a Member of the World Economic Forum's Taskforce on Low Carbon Economic Prosperity, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Chair of the Confederation of British Industry's (CBI's) Carbon Reporting Working Group, Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEPFI) Human Rights Working Group and a Member of the Advisory Group for the Global Reporting Initiative Electricity Utility Sector Supplement. He led the drafting of the IIGCC Investor Statement on Climate Change and was a contributor to the UNDP 2007/2008 Human Development Report (Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World). His previous experience includes advising Environment Australia and the OECD on the development and implementation of pollutant release and transfer registers, and advising companies on greenhouse gas emission inventories and management. He has authored a series of major reports on the investment implications of social and environmental issues, including: Better Returns in a Better World (Oxfam); Managing the Unavoidable: Investment Implications of a Changing Climate (Insight Investment); Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across the Value Chain: The New Agenda (Insight Investment and Acona); Taking the Temperature: Assessing the Performance of Leading UK and European Companies in Responding to Climate Change (Insight Investment); and Climate Change Policy and the Electricity Industry (Chatham House). He has written over 400 articles, book chapters and papers on climate change, energy policy and investment issues, and is the author/editor of six books on these issues. These include Corporate Responses to Climate Change (editor; Greenleaf Publishing, 2008), Responsible Investment (co-editor; Greenleaf Publishing, 2006), Rethinking Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy (Edward Elgar, 2005), and Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions (editor; Greenleaf Publishing, 2003). Rory holds a first-class honours degree in electrical engineering (University College Cork, Ireland), postgraduate degrees in Environmental Science (University of Manchester) and Environmental Law (University of Sydney) and a PhD in Law (Queen Mary, University of London).

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