About the Program

Top-line Growth

 

Corporate sustainability is a business approach that creates long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments.

One of the key concepts of corporate sustainability is triple bottom line accounting (TBL). Also known as "people, planet, profit," TBL accounting expands the traditional reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance.

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) were created in September 1999 to provide global sustainability benchmarks for investors. At that time, the attitude of businesses toward sustainability was driven primarily by regulatory compliance requirements.

In celebrating the 10th anniversary of the indexes, the DJSI creators observe:

"When the DJSI started these assessments ten years ago, even a significant number of the best-performing companies had only vague and ad-hoc processes in place to target sustainability objectives.

"Today, companies embrace corporate sustainability as a key source of competitive advantage. Management realizes that the implementation of sustainability practices helps mitigate risks and seize opportunities arising from long-term economic, environmental and social trends."

Investors are increasingly diversifying their portfolios by investing in the companies tracked on the DJSI because of their strong stock market performance.