Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s Social Responsibility Investment Index
In December 2010, the Centre for Environmental Rights and nine other environmental NGOs engaged the Johannesburg Securities’ Exchange’s Socially Responsible Investment Index after the publication of the Index’s 2010 results.
- “SRI Index ignores significant violations of environmental laws”, letter from 10 South African environmental NGOs to the JSE (7 December 2010)
- email reply from the JSE to the 10 environmental NGOs (9 December 2010)
- Reply from the 10 environmental NGOs (17 December 2010)
Media coverage
- JSE’s SRI Index principles now standard business practice (FA News, 2 December 2010)
- SRI companies ‘flout environmental laws’ (Legalbrief, 14 December 2010)
- JSE’s green index gets red light from NGOs (Business Report, 23 December 2010)
- JSE’s socially responsible index ‘greenwash’ – NGOs (Business Report, 29 November 2013)
- How the JSE’s scoring model falls short (Business Times, 1 June 2014)