  We introduce the novel task of detecting sustainability initiatives in
company reports. Given a full report, the aim is to automatically identify
mentions of practical activities that a company has performed in order to
tackle specific societal issues. New methods for identifying continuous
sentence spans need to be developed for capturing the multi-sentence structure
of individual sustainability initiatives. We release a new dataset of company
reports in which the text has been manually annotated with sustainability
initiatives. We also evaluate different models for initiative detection,
introducing a novel aggregation and evaluation methodology. Our proposed
architecture uses sequences of consecutive sentences to account for contextual
information when making classification decisions at the individual sentence
level.
