Experts Rate the Ratings
Over the last decade we have seen extraordinary growth in the number of ratings, rankings and awards that seek to measure corporate sustainability performance. While ratings play an important role in improving corporate performance companies have struggled to keep up and many question the time and effort required to respond to raters' requests for information as well as how the information is being used, if at all.
The first of four deliverables of Phase Five of Rate the Raters sheds light on which ratings people pay attention to, how often experts use ratings & rankings and what they use them for as well as what experts feel raters need to do to become more effective at driving improvements in corporate sustainability performance. Michael Sadowski discusses the full results of the GlobeScan / SustainAbility survey of 850 sustainability professionals in Guardian Sustainable Business.
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