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Ralph Torrie | Doing Well by Doing Good — Encouraging indications from corporate revenue and investment trends. | 2023-03-01 | CACOR Zoom
March 1, 2023 @ 13:30 - 16:00 EST
Speaker: Ralph Torrie
Title:
Doing Well by Doing Good — Encouraging indications from corporate revenue and investment trends.
Time:
Mar 1, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Revenues and investments for 2,500 large companies have been measured against Corporate Knights’ taxonomy of sustainable production and the results are encouraging. As a group, the companies with the highest sustainability impact scores consistently outperform the MS ACWI (All Capital World Index) and exhibited strong growth throughout the pandemic. Ralph will summarize the taxonomy, the analysis, and what it indicates may be coming next.
Biography:
Ralph Torrie is research director for Corporate Knights, a media and research company based in Toronto, focused on advancing a sustainable economy. Ralph has made original contributions to the field of sustainable development, notably in the development of local government response strategies to climate change. He has done extensive scenario analysis of low carbon futures. In addition to founding Torrie Smith Associates, a research and software development firm that operated out of Ottawa for 25 years, previous roles include Assistant Coordinator of the Energy Research Group of the United Nations University and the International Development Research Centre and senior executive of two publicly traded management consulting firms. He represented Canadian environment, development and peace organizations before the Canadian hearings of the Brundtland Commission and was a candidate for the Green Party in two Canadian federal elections.