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.
North Armerican Sustainability Reporting award winners excel at transparency
Source: Canada Newswire Group, 8 April 2005The winners of the third annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting were announced today. The awards will be presented to the winners at a ceremony in Toronto at noon today. Vancity Credit Union, a Vancouver based financial services >>> read more
Sustainability Reporting – by the Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH), Australia
Source: Austrlian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage, 1 April 2005This reporting written by the Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) is a sound bite of the latest in sustainability reporting. Its focuses purely on non-financial reporting and is intended for anyone interested in keeping up-to-date. [html]<P align=justify>This reporting >>> read more
March 2005 update of GRI
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 29 March 2005The march 2005 update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Progress report: the latest scoop on G3 3/22/2005 Keep yourself fully up-to-date on G3 developments at GRI by using the new Work in Progress (WIP) brief tool! Written a sustainability >>> read more
Novo Nordisk integrates Sustainability Report with it’s Annual Report
Source: Novo Nordisk, 28 March 2005For the first time, Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has integrated its voluntary corporate reporting to include the social, environmental, and financial performance. The just-released 2004 Annual Report brings together material previously contained in three separate publications, presenting information in >>> read more
German Ranking of Sustainability Reports – English report now available
Source: The website of the German Ranking, 18 March 2005The German ranking of sustainability reports is a follow up of former rankings of environmental reports carried out in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000. The methodology applied in the new sustainability ranking considers social and environmental requirements with equal weight. >>> read more
News update GRI February 2005
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 8 March 2005News update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Micro-Finance Institutions will report using the GRI Guidelines 24 February 2005 Six leading microfinance banks in developing countries are developing their first sustainability reports, in order to disclose the impact of their >>> read more
Philips has introduced more than one hundred Green Flagship products
Source: Philips, 1 March 2005Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) today published its third annual sustainability report. Based on its environmental program ‘EcoVision’, Philips introduced 21 new Green Flagship products to the market in 2004, bringing the total number of green flagships to >>> read more
85 Percent of Executives and Investors Surveyed Rank Corporate Responsibility a Central Consideration in Investment Decisions
Source: Oracle, 21 February 2005According to a new study released today by Oracle Corporation and the Economist Intelligence Unit, 85 percent of executives and investors rank corporate responsibility as a central consideration in investment decisions. The study, "The Importance of Corporate Responsibility," surveyed 136 >>> read more
Launch of GRI’s first sustainability report
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 4 February 2005A Taste of our Own Guidelines: the very first GRI-GRI report GRI has launched its first sustainability report, produced using its own reporting Guidelines. With a mission of developing and disseminating globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, we knew the time >>> read more
ADVANCE project to assess the sustainability performance of European industry in monetary terms
Source: Advance project, 2 February 2005The University of Leeds Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) and the Berlin-based Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in cooperation with eco-rating agencies from Sweden (GES Investment Services), Germany (scoris), Italy (AVANZI SRI) and Hungary (Institute for Strategic Studies) >>> read more
ISO prepares to launch development of standard on social responsibility
Source: ISO, 29 January 2005The first meeting of the ISO group that is to develop an International Standard giving guidelines on social responsibility has been scheduled for 7-11 March 2005 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. ISO expects that developing the standard will take three years, >>> read more