Western Washington University
PAE-18: Positive Sustainability Investments

ClearBridge manages all equity asset classes in accordance with WWU’s Socially Responsible and Sustainable Investing Policy. Relevant policies stated by The ClearBridge Investment Agency include: -Direct investments in community development vehicles or in companies that are developing commercial solutions to critical societal and/or environmental challenges that an organization seeks to address through its grant-making. • Growing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency in operations and products. • Globalization of the world’s major economies and resulting changes in work force demographics and customer and market populations. • Increasing world population, growing prosperity and consumption among some segments of society, and the associated demand for goods and services. • Expanding demands for goods and services on a limited natural resource base, and the resulting pressure to improve resource productivity. • Better and more widely available information on the environmental and social impact of development on local communities and economies. • Ever-increasing public and, consequently, governmental concerns about quality-of-life factors such as air and water quality, equity in the workplace, work-life balance, and human rights. • The joining, or transfer, of behavioral attitudes developed by individuals in their daily lives as workers, parents, consumers, and community volunteers with their newly enlarged role as investors.