FEE (Fédération des Experts comptables Européens – Federation of European Accountants) signals that reporting on corporate social responsibility should be in the spirit of the Modernisation Directive. Entities are increasingly including environmental and social issues within their business strategy and >>> read more

For the second year in succession, BT has won the top accolade at the 2008 UK Sustainability Reporting Awards, which identifies and highlights innovative attempts by companies to communicate corporate sustainability performance and to reward transparency. ‘We are delighted to >>> read more

Companies that publish longer environmental reports tend to earn more awards, companies in low carbon-intense sectors put out longer reports and almost all companies fail to define key sustainability terms, according to a study of corporate reports. Admitting the variety >>> read more

Twice as many top U.S. companies publicly released sustainability data in 2008 compared with three years earlier, with ethics outweighing economics for the first time as the primary reason for the disclosures, according to a KPMG analysis of corporate reports. >>> read more

Banks, insurers and asset managers, struggling to rebuild battered reputations after the financial turmoil of 2008, will benefit from a new environment and social reporting standard launched today, claims a senior United Nations official. The United Nations Environment Programme, through >>> read more

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and St James Ethics Centre (the Centre) have today signed an agreement to establish an Australian base for GRI. GRI is the developer of the world’s most widely-used sustainability reporting guidelines – the G3 Guidelines >>> read more

Marking sixty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, three leading organizations are launching a new initiative to foster greater integration of human rights principles into corporate sustainability reporting. The project – Human Rights: A Call >>> read more

According to a research by KDPaine & Partners and Brad Rawlins of Brigham Young University, environmental sustainability reporting is still being used as a public relations tool to position companies favorably on environmental issues, instead of holding companies accountable for >>> read more

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a joint project with the Global Reporting Initiative to help companies in emerging markets improve relationships with stakeholders and attract investors by better measuring, managing, and reporting their contribution to >>> read more

The majority of Fortune 50 corporations use the Internet to disclose some information on their environmental performance but most are missing opportunities to involve stakeholders, tap the interactive potential of the web, and provide transparency in their reporting, new research >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Ceres, a U.S. coalition of environmental and investor groups, today called for submissions to the seventh-annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting. The purpose of the awards program is to acknowledge >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants announced the shortlist for its annual UK Sustainability Reporting Awards, AccountancyAge reports. The 17th annual sustainability award has been broadened to include 20 countries worldwide. The panel includes judges from Acona, KPMG Europe LLG, >>> read more