Environmental sustainability and financial stability. Can a corporation really do both?

Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.

Thank you. as energy, economy, and environment. The markets were designed on the concept that all investors would have equal access to information

and would make rational decisions. The challenge is we don't have access

to the same information and we don't have enough information about what companies are really doing.

John Stroyer is one of the people who's working to make sure investors have access to that

information. He's the CEO of Calvert Research and Management, pioneers in Responsible Investing.

It's a concept that's been around for many years, but it isn't until recently that

companies have begun to sit up and take notice.

On today's program, Greg Dalton talks with three experts about the ways that market forces

can turn the ship, inspiring awareness, transparency,

and in some cases even change in seemingly immovable corporations. I think the expectation now is

that disclosure is the new normal. If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be hiding.

And hopefully you're doing all the right work internally, but I think the public is increasingly

demanding knowledge of this information.

Betty Kremens is director of the Carbon Disclosure Project

and Greg's first guest today.

CDP publishes the annual A-list,

which scores the world's businesses on environmental performance.

Here's their conversation.

I was looking at the A-list of companies and saw some

surprising A-companys, Las Vegas Sands, owned by Republican donors Sheldon Aidelson, Philip Morris

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