Class 2
- Speaker -
Mike Wallace - Trucost
There’s an increasing interest in corporate environmental performance. One of the most influential stakeholder groups assessing corporate performance are the owners of these corporations, the shareholders. As interest and demand for data increases, so does the supply of data on corporate performance. The challenge for shareholders and all other stakeholders is how to interpret the data being released by corporations. Mike Wallace will discuss some of the major global trends in this area and share with us the unique and unprecedented research being conducted by Trucost. Trucost is a London based environmental research firm with quantified environmental performance data on over 4,000 of the world’s largest corporations. http://www.trucost.com/news.html
Mike Wallace, Trucost - Vice President, North American Operations has over 15-years of environmental consulting experience. The first half of his career focused on conducting environmental due diligence for corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He served as the M&A Program Manager for Environmental Resources Management’s (ERM) Western Region and has conducted hundreds of facility inspections for multi-national buy-side clients. In this capacity, Mr. Wallace assessed environmental liabilities for US and international corporations and quantified findings for use in deal negotiations. For the later half Mr. Wallace has focused his due diligence expertise on the growing interest in corporate environmental transparency and the nexus between environmental performance and corporate governance. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and international NGOs. He has authored numerous articles on corporate environmental performance, has participated in international working groups on the subject and speaks regularly on the topic of environmental transparency and governance.