Eighty-seven percent of investor relations professionals say they believe companies can improve long-term shareholder value through better carbon management - reducing emissions that affect the environment - and that communications technologies can help companies achieve their overall corporate social responsibility goals. Those are among the key findings of a new study conducted by Verizon Business and IR magazine.  It investigated the drivers - governmental, regulatory, stakeholder or financial - that are pushing environmental concerns to the top of the investor relations agenda, and identified how these concerns are affecting overall investor relations practices. Read more (IR Magazine/Verizon Business) ^[1]