We recently convened close to a hundred US sustainability professionals in joint Council meetings. They confirmed a key finding from our C-Suite Challenge 2018 report: CEOs are putting more strategic emphasis behind the sustainability agenda. These Council members likewise found our current survey on ESG rating agencies to be very timely; the question of how much non-financial data should be reported regularly and what to disclose is very much top of mind for chief sustainability officers. We'll be sharing more on this soon.

Our current research projects are progressing well and in the summer we will be publishing first results on total impact valuation and responsible sourcing. Together with The Conference Board China Center, we are working on UN SDG implementation in China and the business opportunities it's creating. The results will be first presented to the China Sustainability Council at the end of March and then published more widely.

Finally, I hope you'll visit our new Sustainability Center blog and send us suggestions on what you would like to see covered there. As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback.