Marquette S-Lab Annual Report

Each year, the Marquette Sustainability Lab, led by Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA, produces a report on the state of the sustainability economy. This report identifies the root causes of our current sustainability recession and offers tangible guidance to CFOs, utility planners, engineers, investment managers, city managers and procurement leads.

The report is timed to coincide with the Nexus Sustainability Leaders Summit each year, which gathers sustainable economy professionals together each October in a joint event between Marquette Business and The Water Council.

We hope there are insights in this report that can help your organization combine what’s good for business with what’s good for the Earth.

Author: Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA

Christopher K. Merker, PhD, CFA, is a director with Private Asset Management at Robert W. Baird & Co. He holds a PhD in investment governance and fiduciary effectiveness from Marquette University, where he has taught the course “Sustainable Finance” since 2009. Executive director of Fund Governance Analytics (FGA), an ESG research partnership with Marquette University, he is a member of the CFA Institute ESG Working Group, an international committee currently exploring ESG standards, publishes the blog, Sustainable Finance, which covers current topics around governance and sustainability in investing, and is co-author of the book, The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing.