Anne Kelly
Director of Governance Programs
CERES
email: kelly@ceres.org

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.

Suggested Readings:

CERES: An Overview

 
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.


Coalition and Companies

 
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 List
Ceres Sustainability Report
 
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.
Sustainability Reporting
  Finalists Chosen for Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Reporting Awards

January 2, 2008 - Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) today announced the shortlist of candidate reports for the Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Reporting Awards for 2007.
 
  Investors praise U.S. Senate leaders for pushing SEC to require full corporate disclosure of climate change risks

December 7, 2007 -- Investors today praised Senate leaders, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., for sending a letter yesterday to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox urging the SEC to issue guidance on information companies should be disclosing about financial risks they face from climate change.