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Anne
Kelly
Director
of Governance Programs
CERES
email: kelly@ceres.org
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What Is the Business
Community Doing About
the Environment, Climate Change and
Environmental Justice?
Anne Kelly is an environmental attorney with
twenty years of experience in the private sector and in state
and federal regulatory agencies. Currently she is the Director
of Governance Programs at Ceres, a non-profit coalition of investors
and public interest groups working toward sustainable prosperity.
She is also a principal in the law and mediation firm, Creative
Resolutions, LLC based in Boston.
Prior to joining Ceres, Ms. Kelly was the Director
of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force, a specialized
unit of the Attorney General's Office dedicated to bringing criminal
and civil actions against major environmental violators. She also
served as Special Assistant to John DeVillars, Regional Administrator
of EPA New England. Ms. Kelly is a member of the adjunct faculty
at Boston College Law School and has taught environmental law
at Tufts University, Suffolk University and New England School
of Law. She is on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts
and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance.
In addition to her JD, Ms. Kelly received her
Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy
School.
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Suggested
Readings:
| CERES:
An Overview |
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Ceres works with investors worldwide to improve corporate
and public policies on climate change and other environmental,
social, and corporate governance issues. As part of this mission,
Ceres launched and coordinates the Investor Network on Climate
Risk (INCR), an alliance of leading U.S. institutional investors
that collectively manage over $4 trillion in assets.
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Coalition and Companies
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The key to Ceres' success is an active coalition of investors,
environmentalists and public interest groups. This coalition,
the largest in North America, promotes corporate sustainability
by working with companies to encourage accountability, disclosure,
and continuous improvement of environmental and social performance.
The Ceres 10-point Principles are the baseline used to guide
the work with companies.
Ceres
Coalition - Members
Ceres
Companies - Company
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| Ceres
Sustainability Report |
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Sustainability reporting can benefit all organizations, regardless
of their size or type of organization. Ceres publishes its
own sustainability report and hopes it can serve as a model
for nonprofit groups and small businesses.
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