Yesterday brought the lovely news that Bob Massie has been awarded two Joan Bavaria awards for Building Sustainability into Capital Markets, jointly awarded by Ceres and Trillium Asset Management. Bob’s work has spanned many field and, among other things, he has been an astonishingly effective institution-builder, having helped grow Ceres into the powerful force it is today, and along the way incubating both the Global Reporting Initiative, now the fundamental touchstone for corporate social reporting, and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, an effective collaboration of institutional investors that has helped bring climate risk, and opportunity, into the mainstream of financial and corporate discourse.
Bob has been a regular participant in meetings at the Boston College Center’s Institute for Responsible Investment, offered invaluable guidance on multiple topics, and his ongoing work on accounting frameworks that take into account all costs and benefits from corporate activity – in which the IRI participates – is both exciting and vitally important. Congratulations to him for this well-deserved honor. Learn more about Bob and the Bavaria Awards here.