Akzo Nobel is today launching its first ever Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, heralding the company’s solid commitment to anchoring the Triple P concept as a cornerstone of its business operations. To underline the company-wide nature of this focused approach, >>> read more

Germany was and still is leading in EMAS registrations in absolute figures as well as in relation to habitants. But since three years the number of EMAS registrations is falling back against ISO 14001 in Germany. Internationally EMAS already has >>> read more

MALAYSIAN companies need to adopt sustainability reporting to go beyond compliance to corporate governance, said Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Malaysia (ACCA). Its head, Tay Kay Luan, said that not only will they demonstrate transparency and accountability, communicating such sustainable >>> read more

Corporate responsibility (CR) reporting in industrialized countries has clearly entered the mainstream, with Japan and UK in the lead. There has been a dramatic change from purely environmental reporting up until 1999 to sustainability reporting in 2005, encompassing social, ethical, >>> read more

An extensive process is underway to update the 2002 Global Report Initiative (GRI) Guidelines by mid-2006. As part of its contribution to this process, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has published a free report drawing on the experiences of 19 >>> read more

CGA-Canada, in cooperation with the CGA-Canada Research Foundation, has released a new report on the emerging field of corporate sustainability reporting. The report, titled Measuring Up: A Study on Sustainability Reporting in Canada, is based on a survey of more >>> read more

Companies can turn regulatory compliance and heightened corporate governance efforts into opportunities that create value for their businesses, according to a new report from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Companies now invest heavily in time and money >>> read more

Global Reporting Initiative News Update – May 2005 Now Open: Public comment period for the Logistics and Transportation Sector Supplement 5/24/2005 In partnership with the Logistics & Transportation Corporate Citizenship Initiative of the World Economic Forum (L&TCCI WEF), the GRI >>> read more

By William Baue, Institutional Shareholder.Com How do German companies fare on sustainability reporting? That is the question posed in a recent report sponsored by the Berlin-based Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and Münster-based future e.V. The report, entitled Sustainability >>> read more

Nowadays, corporate social responsibility is increasingly gaining interest and is an item on every management agenda. Still there was no postgraduate program that enabled managers and auditors to specialise in this area. The Erasmus University Rotterdam (Eurac BV) therefore starts >>> read more

April 200 news update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). G3 Update On: Technical Protocols 4/20/2005 The development of a standard format in which to present Technical Protocols is one of the objectives of the G3 plan, and involves preparing >>> read more

The UK company Co-operative Financial Services is winner of The European Sustainability Reporting Award 2004. See the report of the judge for full details.