The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its partners invite both readers and preparers of sustainability reports to participate in their second global survey. Both readers and preparers of sustainability reports are invited to register online from yesterday to find out >>> read more

A conversation between SustainAbility co-founder John Elkington and Jean-Philippe Renaut, who leads SustainAbility’s ‘Engaging Stakeholders’ Program. Jean-Philippe Renaut: John, you took part in a session on integrated business reporting at Clarence House early in September. What was that about? John >>> read more

The number of companies and other organisations publicly disclosing their performance against a range of key sustainability indicators has risen markedly over the last year, according to new figures from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The Global Reporting Initiative is >>> read more

The last fiscal year saw a large number of CSR reports released by Chinese companies in China. When reading these reports, you will find that while they all look pretty, not all of them are informative or useful. Some of >>> read more

In a joint research project with Radley Yeldar, a UK-based communications consultancy, GRI recently published a report entitled Trends in online sustainability reporting, which seeks to identify the degree to which 40 international corporations that use the GRI Guidelines utilize >>> read more

GE Corporation received the top sustainability reporting award today at the 2009 Ceres Conference in San Francisco, California, as part of international competition organized by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The winners, selected >>> read more

In its second annual report on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the 1,000 largest Indian companies, Karmayog, a Mumbai-based online organization, has found that on a scale of zero to five, 494 companies (49%) received the lowest score >>> read more

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today announced that sportlifestyle company PUMA has become the first member of its Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain ("The Network"). The central purpose of The Network is for large companies to >>> read more

As of the end of 2008, more than 190 companies in China, including some foreign-funded firms, have published their annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports — compared with 19 in 2006, according to China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD) >>> read more

Sustainability reporting makes even more sense in a hostile economic environment, says Kathee Rebernak We are in the midst of the first recession since the concepts of sustainability and corporate responsibility entered the global consciousness. With it has come much >>> read more

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – provider of the world’s most widely used framework for disclosure on environmental, social and governance data (ESG) – today released a report examining how companies can frame their ESG disclosures to meet the needs >>> read more

In the second part of BusinessGreen.com’s series on CSR reporting, we investigate the steps firms should be taking to ensure their reports avoid the dreaded "greenwash" label. The increase in the number of companies producing CSR reports may be widely >>> read more