Global Reporting Initiative News Update – May 2005 Now Open: Public comment period for the Logistics and Transportation Sector Supplement 5/24/2005 In partnership with the Logistics & Transportation Corporate Citizenship Initiative of the World Economic Forum (L&TCCI WEF), the GRI >>> read more
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Report Ranks Best German Corporate Sustainability Reports
Source: Institutionalshareowner.com, 23 May 2005By William Baue, Institutional Shareholder.Com How do German companies fare on sustainability reporting? That is the question posed in a recent report sponsored by the Berlin-based Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and Münster-based future e.V. The report, entitled Sustainability >>> read more
Start of educational programs aimed at the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility
Source: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 28 April 2005Nowadays, corporate social responsibility is increasingly gaining interest and is an item on every management agenda. Still there was no postgraduate program that enabled managers and auditors to specialise in this area. The Erasmus University Rotterdam (Eurac BV) therefore starts >>> read more
GRI News Update – April 2005
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 21 April 2005April 200 news update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). G3 Update On: Technical Protocols 4/20/2005 The development of a standard format in which to present Technical Protocols is one of the objectives of the G3 plan, and involves preparing >>> read more
Co-operative Financial Services best European Sustainability Reporter
Source: ACCA, 13 April 2005The 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