Almost 80 percent of the largest 100 companies in 41 countries worldwide issuing corporate responsibility (CR) reports now use the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, according to a new survey by KPMG. The KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility >>> read more

Ugo Bassi, the European Commission’s 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

Corporate 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

Today (7 November) GRI launches the GRI Taxonomy 2013 that has been fully updated for use with G4, GRI’s latest version of the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The GRI Taxonomy 2013 is designed to give organizations better control over the quality >>> read more

Companies 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.

In 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

Paul 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

The 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

Corporate 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

The 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 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

New ACCA report shares the opinions of sustainability reporting experts to help in the development and take-up of paragraph 47. ACCA offers 11 recommendations to help governments intending to proceed with paragraph 47 implementation. The collective thinking of 49 sustainability >>> read more