The EXCEL partnership will continue to promote and catalyze the integration of sustainable development within corporate business strategies and operations. Under this broad theme, EXCEL has been specifically focus in 2005 on the issues of:

Excel Round Table:

• Capital Risk and Disclosure (see Roundtable Agenda)
• Managing Environment & Sustainability Issues Across Borders / Jurisdictions (see Roundtable Agenda)
• Negotiating Partnerships with Aboriginal Peoples, Rural and Remote Regions (see Roundtable Agenda)

Excel Spotlight:

• Corporate Benefits from Sustainability
• Sustainability Approaches to Product Innovation
• Sustainability and Investor Relations
• Sustainability: The Human Resources Advantage
• Supply Chain Innovations
• Financial Reporting: Sustainability in MD&A Documentation
• Environmental Best Practices to Reduce Costs, Liabilities and Delays
• Sustainability in Corporate Governance Processes
• Sustainability Lens for Capital Risk
• How Companies Are Using Sustainability to Enhance Customer Relations

Excel-I (Inquiry):

• Post Federal Budget Analysis

Excel Report:

• A Sustainability Lens for Capital Decisions - A Corporate Sustainability Approach to Reduce Business Risk

Sustainability Risk and Capital Project

In an era of increased risk and heightened expectations around corporate governance, transparency and due diligence, risk management for non-financial, sustainability mega risks is the new challenge.

The Sustainability Risk and Capital Planning is an on-going project that explores the role a sustainability lens can play in improving risk management and due diligence for capital investments. This project aims to find innovative ways to address the governance issues, trigger points, and more systematic sustainability criteria to be applied to investment decisions.

Recent developments of Sustainability Risk and Capital Planning thinking, including EXCEL member examples, will be presented through the year. To further discuss this program please contact us.