Trillium’s Jonas Kron Interviewed by Bloomberg TV Regarding Impact of a Potential Water Shortage
To mark the United Nation’s 2012 World Water Day, Jonas Kron, Vice President of Trillium Asset Management, was interviewed on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan”. Producing enough food to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will require the international community to ensure the sustainable use of the world’s most critical finite resource, water. Trillium has been engaging companies and encouraging them to develop both short term and long term strategies to significantly reduce their fresh water usage. Jonas talked about the potential impacts that a water supply shortage could have on a company’s agricultural supply chain. You can see …
Sysco – Climate Change Related Water Risk (2011)
RESOLVED Shareholders request that by April 2012, the Board of Directors provide a report to shareholders (at reasonable cost and excluding confidential and proprietary information) on how Sysco is assessing water risk to its agricultural supply chain and action it intends to take to mitigate the impact on long-term shareholder value. SUPPORTING STATEMENT Water management is an emerging strategic business issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission states in its 2010 “Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change”, that climate change and water may challenge companies “dependent on suppliers that are impacted by climate change, such as companies that purchase agricultural …
Business and Water Scarcity: The Reports Are In
Benjamin Franklin wrote, “When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.” Residents of cities around the world are learning that lesson right now. Atlanta risks running out of drinking water before the end of the year if a severe drought holds and the city doesn’t take dramatic steps to curb consumption or find new water supplies. On the other side of the globe, some Chinese cities must now dig wells 600 feet deep to find clean drinking water in regions where aquifers were eight feet below the surface just a few decades ago. Millions of residents of …
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