An environmental think tank and a socially responsible investment firm have joined forces to press corporations on reporting environmental risks. And theyve called on the Securities and Exchange Commission for muscle. The World Resources Institute and Calvert called on corporate >>> read more

A new update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), guidelines for sustainability reporting. Get Involved! How To Get Involved With Improving The Guidelines: The GRI needs your help as we begin the process of revising the June 2000 first edition >>> read more

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc. and Socialfunds.com have announced a joint marketing agreement to provide individual investors with access to corporate environmental performance research previously available only to the institutional marketplace. The research reports, now offered on www.socialfunds.com, utilize Innovests >>> read more

Does superior environmental performance indicate increased shareholder value? An emerging body of evidence suggests it may. After a generation of experience with environmental issues, regulations, and management efforts, an active debate has emerged over whether environmental activities are value-adding or >>> read more

What makes environmental reports worth the (recycled) paper they’re printed on? The latest thinking on assurance reports the independent examinations that make environmental reports more valuable to users has been identified by the European Federation of Accountants (FEE). The International >>> read more

The United Nations Environment Programme´s Division of Technology, Industry and Environment and the Eco-Efficiency and Sustainable Enterprise Group at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany have jointly developed the Efficient Entrepreneur Calendar for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In combination with >>> read more

A new period is now emerging. A period in which society demands that companies pay attention to the social and environmental, as well as the economic, results of their actions. A period when companies must earn their societal license to >>> read more

To help companies sort through the complex and growing number of standards, guidelines, and codes designed to guide corporate practices on issues ranging from human rights to the environment, BSR has just published "A Comparison of Selected Corporate Social Responsibility-Related >>> read more

An update from GRI, the Global Reporting Initiative, guidelines for sustainability reporting. Subjects: * Priorities for GRI Identified at Washington Symposium * Investors Urge CEOs to Publish Sustainability Reports * More Companies Following Sustainability Reporting Guidelines * Recent GRI Presentations >>> read more

Pressure is building on business, not least the financial sector, to respond to the various challenges posed by the increasing growth of interest in environmental issues. A consortium of banks and insurers (the FORGE group) have been working together with >>> read more

New Website Launched: www.environmental-performance.org This new website presents the results of a major two-year research project on the environmental performance of European firms in the manufacturing industry. The European Commission-funded project developed a practical approach to performance measurement, and collected >>> read more

Letter to corporate heads urges adoption of standardized sustainability reporting measures for Year 2000. A group of 39 leading financial investors, managing combined assets in excess of $140 billion, sent a letter to CEO’s of the 500 largest U.S. companies >>> read more