'...been keeping my eye on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index'

摘要

The what? Perhaps you thought that the Dow Jones was all about stocks and shares. In today's world, however, you might have to rethink your perceptions, because the Dow Jones Sustainability Index could be having a serious effect on your investments or, for that matter, on how your customers view you and your company. Across the globe the intensive production, marketing and distribution of goods and services has led to growing criticism of the social and environmental fall-out of industrial activities. In World Leather, November 2002, fresh thinking about the impact of sustainability and environmental issues on the leather industry were very much to the fore; the development of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 1999, as an adjunct to the traditional Dow Jones, is yet another manifestation of the new political agenda.