{"id":108,"date":"2025-04-06T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/?p=108"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:35:27","slug":"2017-shareholder-responsibility-report-on-impact-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/proposals-working-papers\/2017-shareholder-responsibility-report-on-impact-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Shareholder Responsibility Report on Impact Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Summary<\/span>: In the Spring of 2015, after campus activism and a report from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) concerning the issue of fossil fuel consumption, the President and Trustees of Williams College laid out initiatives for reducing the College\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the community\u2019s impact on global warming2.<br \/>\nIn the current report, we review the advantages and disadvantages of the various options available to the college, such as divestment, improving energy efficiency on campus, educational initiatives, and impact investing of the college\u2019s endowment (in companies, projects, or technologies focused on the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions). We then summarize the progress the college has made in the areas defined by the President and Trustees. In particular, we highlight the successful and continuing efforts of the College administration and the Zilkha Center in the area of campus and local\/regional energy efficiency initiatives.<br \/>\nWe present five recommendations for furthering the college\u2019s efforts in combatting climate<br \/>\nchange. Given the diverse viewpoints represented by committee members, consensus is hard<br \/>\nto achieve and these recommendations did not receive uniform support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/files\/2025\/04\/ACSR-Report-Spring-2017.pdf\"><strong>Full report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In the Spring of 2015, after campus activism and a report from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) concerning the issue of fossil fuel consumption, the President and Trustees of Williams College laid out initiatives for reducing the College\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the community\u2019s impact on global warming2. In the current <a class=\"read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/proposals-working-papers\/2017-shareholder-responsibility-report-on-impact-investing\/\">more &raquo;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proposals-working-papers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}