Environment Australia published this month 2 reports about sustainability: * The role of Australia’s financial sector in sustainability * A Capital Idea: Realising Value from Environmental and Social Performance The role of Australia’s financial sector in sustainability: Recognising the growing >>> read more

AccountAbility launched the AccountAbility 1000 (AA1000) Framework in November 1999 to provide a practical framework for organisations to address issues of accountability and to improve overall performance. At its heart is a quality management process based on stakeholder engagement. Organisations >>> read more

Update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), guidelines for sustainability reporting. REMINDER! Call for Nominations to the GRI Board of Directors The Nominating Committee of the GRI invites nominations for individuals to serve on the first Board of Directors. The >>> read more

The merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is bearing fruit: the young company came out on top in a "Corporate Responsibility Rating, conducted by Munich-based oekom research AG, of the eight leading computer manufacturers on the international stage. The rating uses >>> read more

Onnodig en ongewenst. Dat vindt de ondernemingsorganisatie VNO-NCW van het initiatief van Tweede-Kamerleden Koenders (PvdA) en Rabbae (GroenLinks) om ondernemingen te laten rapporteren over de maatschappelijke aspecten van hun internationale activiteiten. VNO-NCW is voorstander van transparantie over ondernemen in binnen >>> read more

Powerful new scrutiny of top-tier FTSE-listed companies social and environmental performance by SERM Rating Agency shows some disturbing gaps between best-in-class and their poorer performing sector peers, in terms of their net risk to capital value. In addition, Rating outputs >>> read more

Shortly after the European Commission’s communication on quality of work, Commissioners Anna Diamantopoulou (Employment and Social Affairs) and Erkki Liikanen (Enterprise and Information Society) today presented a Green Paper on promoting a European framework for Corporate Social Responsibility(1), whereby companies >>> read more

Business in the Community (BITC), the leading UK organisation working to promote responsible business practices, held its annual awards ceremony on 11 July. The Co-operative Bank captured the top award for ‘Company of the Year’ at an event that also >>> read more

The UK’s top companies have rejected Government demands to disclose environmental and social responsibility information, according to a survey by corporate social responsibility consultants Environmental Context and design consultancy SalterBaxter. For over six years the UK Government has been pushing >>> read more

National delegations participating in the ISO TC 207 have voted in favor of writing a guidance standard on environmental communications. The document will present basic principles for companies to communicate environmental information publicly and inside their organisations. It will also >>> read more

Japanese firms voluntarily report environmental policies, achievements and costs but do not provide hard data on emissions, energy use and water use consistently, according to a report released today by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, a leading social, environmental and >>> read more

A new update from GRI, the Global Reporting Initiative for sustainability reporting guidelines. Governance and Institutionalisation * Nominating Committee Finalised The final two members of the Nominating Committee have been appointed. Pierre Sané is the Assistant Director General of Social >>> read more