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

Social reporting isn’t yet doing it’s job and holding big companies to account. That’s the view of a radical critique by NEF (The New Economics Foundation), which calls for a new audit radicalisation. The report "Corporate Spin: The Troubled Teenager >>> read more

Report spotlights the top fifty corporate sustainability reports worldwide. The Global Reporters, SustainAbility’s latest research, benchmarks the top 50 corporate sustainability reports from around the world. Given recent anti-globalization protests and the increasing spotlight on corporate responsibility, such reporting will >>> read more

Report encourages overcoming the barriers to integrating the value of environmental strategies into financial analyses. Social investors and environmental advocates have long argued that sound environmental performance is part of responsible business practice and can add to a company’s profitability. >>> read more

An online Public register of HSE prosecutions of UK companies is now online by HSE. HSE enforces health and safety legislation for some industry sectors in the UK – it covers factories, building sites, mines, farms, fairgrounds, quarries, railways, chemical >>> read more

The Danish government has moved to tighten up its compulsory "green accounts" system for the most environmentally significant companies with presentation to parliament of a new bill. One aim of the legislative changes is to link the country’s system of >>> read more

GRI Update – October 2000 * 2nd International GRI Symposium, Nov. 13-15, Washington * GRI Speaks to the United Nations * GRI on the Road – Briefings in Paris, Delhi, Mumbai, London… * Feedback Wanted on Sustainability Reporting Guidelines * >>> read more

Milieuboek uit Amsterdam bestaat niet meer, Milieuboeken.nl op internet is het moderne alternatief om uw boeken op het gebied van milieu, natuur en duurzaamheid eenvoudig te bestellen. Zowel voor professional als de consument. Milieuboek in Amsterdam was jarenlang de bekende >>> read more