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I’ve always said: In God we trust – everyone else, bring data.
SASB has had a highly impressive first year. They’re working directly with the economic system and regulatory framework to systematically develop standards for industries in all ten sectors of the U.S. economy.

With SASB’s standards, for the first time investors will be able to compare company performance within and across industries on the most critical dimensions of sustainability that impact long term value creation.

[SASB will] change the DNA of the system so that at the very least companies that are doing the right things can have an advantage when they are raising capital in the public markets. We made a big bet on SASB because we think it can be so important.

SASB provides a mechanism for those businesses that are doing well to be understood.

We share SASB’s commitment to advancing greater standardization and transparency around non-financial performance and disclosure by companies, and to helping organizations better communicate performance measured in both financial and non-financial terms.

Our support of SASB, among other standard setting organizations, reflects our commitment to address social and environmental impacts in a forward looking manner.

To make sustainability disclosure more cost effective for companies and useful for investors, we need a market standard. The Sustainability Accounting and Standards Board (SASB), a grantee of the Foundation, was created to fill this need.

The guiding vision for SASB is that metrics be useful to investors and companies…