(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Your article "Exchange acts to end burden of governance" (FT.com, August 16) illustrates that, even though fatigued and reticent, companies feel compelled to respond to the growing number of ad-hoc surveys >>> read more

(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Sir, It is encouraging to see the London Stock Exchange becoming involved in corporate social responsibility matters, with its new online disclosure tool, the Corporate Responsibility Exchange ("Exchange acts to end >>> read more

In four out of ten industry sectors, Nordic companies perform better on environment, human rights and corporate governance than their European competitors, according to a new study from GES Investment Services. But overall, British companies are outstanding. The study serve >>> read more

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as been defined by the European Commission as the integration by companies of social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. The European Agency for >>> read more

The OECD Guidelines recommend principles and standards for multinational enterprises, but they do not prescribe precise ways in which to measure and report actual behaviour. Where complementarities exist, the GRI indicators can be used to help measure and report on >>> read more

Interest in sustainability reporting by the public sector has been growing rapidly. Agencies on every tier of government have started down the road to better transparency and reporting on their sustainability impacts, just as the general public has started to >>> read more

Gearing Up, a new SustainAbility report launched on 24 June in New York at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, concludes that despite achieving impressive momentum the corporate responsibility (CR) movement is bumping up against real limits. Some responsible >>> read more

More Australian companies are producing sustainability or CSR reports, according to a new study by the Department of the Environment and Heritage and others. Of 509 companies surveyed, 116 has a publicly available report. The survey, ‘The State of Sustainability >>> read more

(Published in the Australian Financial Review, 14 July 2004). The number of Australian companies producing sustainability reports rose by around 27 per cent over the past year, according to a new study to be released today. But the Australian Shareholders’ >>> read more

What you would like to see in GRI’s first sustainability report? As a member of GRI’s international network you are an important stakeholder in the organisation. We value your thoughts on the general parameters we have set for the report >>> read more

Business and NGOs clash on conclusions of final report of Multi Stakeholder Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility. Two weeks after the final plenary meeting of the Multi Stakeholder Forum on CSR, there is still no full agreement on the final >>> read more

There was a time 30 or so years ago when, like many college students, I distrusted big business. Of course I had absolutely no basis in fact for that conclusion. It was just that like many, not to our credit, >>> read more