We agree that investors should consider environmental issues and journalists have every right to challenge us.
Last fall, Deloitte & Touche USA did a study of "green" attitudes by travelers and found that 41percentt said they actively consider environmental issues when choosing a hotel.
12 Weighing the Environment A federal judge ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to consider environmental issues more fully when it makes decisions about water flow for the Missouri River.
A federal judge today ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to consider environmental issues more fully when it makes decisions about water flow for the Missouri River that could threaten the region's most endangered wildlife.
Today, green management, which considers environmental issues, has become an accepted part of business life (Brown and Karagozlu 1998).
If you think that fund managers who consider environmental issues when picking stocks are saving the world at the expense of yield, think again.
Similarly, Berry and Junkus (2013) show that both SR investors and non-SR investors consider environmental issues to be most important.
Their conclusion: "Equity investors consider environmental issues still primarily as a potential drag on profits" while "managers may heed calls and pressure for better environmental performance by government [and] organizations like Greenpeace".
