The release of the International Integrated Reporting (<IR>) Framework on Monday 9 December 2013, marks an important milestone in the market-led evolution of corporate reporting. It follows a three-month global consultation led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) earlier >>> read more
Will EU plan open up Europes supply chains to sustainable reporting?
Source: Supply Management, 9 December 2013Ugo Bassi, the European Commissions Director for Capital and Companies recently announced that about 2,500 large EU companies currently disclose environmental and social information on a regular basis 10% of large, listed EU businesses. The plan, according to Bassi, >>> read more
GRI is the global standard as sustainability reporting goes mainstream
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 9 December 2013Almost 80 percent of the largest 100 companies in 41 countries worldwide issuing corporate responsibility (CR) reports now use the Global Reporting Initiatives Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, according to a new survey by KPMG. The KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility >>> read more
CR Reporting Adoption Rate Slows, Study Finds
Source: Environmental Leader, 20 November 2013Corporate responsibility reports, once considered a niche activity only practiced by a few companies, has increased rapidly since 2000, but the rate of adoption has slowed in the past two years, according to a report released Tuesday. The slower growth >>> read more
GRI launches GRI Taxonomy 2013 to support digital disclosure of sustainability information
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 7 November 2013Today (7 November) GRI launches the GRI Taxonomy 2013 that has been fully updated for use with G4, GRIs latest version of the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The GRI Taxonomy 2013 is designed to give organizations better control over the quality >>> read more
Farm animal welfare consistently ignored in sustainability reports
Source: The Guardian, 6 November 2013Companies should report on all issues stakeholders care about, not just those considered most material. Failure to do so suggests there’s something to hide. Read the full article by following the link.
WBCSD Releases New Report on Improving the Effectiveness of Non-Financial Reporting
Source: WBCSD, 6 November 2013In the face of unprecedented global, regional and local sustainability challenges, the need for transparent and effective non-financial reporting has never been more urgent. In partnership with Radley Yeldar, the WBCSD has conducted one of the largest independent research projects >>> read more
Integrated reporting what it is and is not
Source: Read the interview, 18 October 2013Paul Druckman, CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) addresses some of the misconceptions about what integrated reporting is and is not providing insights into how it will develop in this interview with Carol Adams. He also >>> read more
SASB Releases Conceptual Framework, Announces Revised Calendar of Public Comment Periods
Source: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, 14 October 2013The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, SASB, a non-profit organization that provides sustainability accounting standards for use by publicly listed corporations in the U.S., released its Conceptual Framework and revised calendar of public comment periods. The Conceptual Framework explains the concepts >>> read more
How to read a sustainability report
Source: GreenBiz.Com, 30 September 2013Corporate sustainability reports have been around since … well, it’s hard to say. The first report may have been published by "companies in the chemical industry with serious image problems" in the 1980s, or by Ben & Jerry’s in 1989 >>> read more
Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) new UK mandatory reporting rules
Source: Lexology, 25 September 2013The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors Report) Regulations 2013 (the SR Regulations) come into force on 1 October 2013. The SR Regulations both extend the scope of mandatory non-financial reporting obligations in the UK and introduce a new >>> read more
Materiality assessments: The missing link for sustainability strategy
Source: GreenBiz.Com, 10 September 2013Materiality is a hot topic among CSR professionals grappling with questions of what to report, and how. As the name implies, the so-called materiality assessment promises to answer these questions, showing an organization the activities, impacts and achievements it should >>> read more