by Robert Kropp Investors network elicits data from corporations globally and finds improved focus on risks and opportunities of climate change. SocialFunds.com -- When a global network of investors with assets of $57 trillion wants corporations to quantify and disclose information on carbon emissions, boardrooms the world over increasingly accept the strategic benefits of measuring and managing carbon emissions. The investors network in question is the Carbon Disclosure Project, a UK-based organization which has recently released the sixth iteration of its annual series of reports on corporate greenhouse gas emissions. Paul Dickinson, the organization's founder and CEO, describes CDP as "By far the largest investor network in the world." Dickinson added, "CDP engages over 1500 corporations in its efforts to increase...
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