The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU). This formalizes and expands existing arrangements to share technical knowledge and collaborate on meeting the world’s energy >>> read more
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GRI, The world’s #1 sustainability reporting standards published in Arabic
Source: , 20 November 2018The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is pleased to announce its Sustainability Reporting Standards are now available in Arabic. Sustainability reporting is a company’s practice of publicly disclosing its impacts on the surrounding world. It has quickly become common practice among >>> read more
Companies Face Greater Scrutiny for Misleading Environmental Claims and Nonstandard Sustainability Reporting
Source: , 19 November 2018As more companies recognize the value of enhanced sustainability reporting and publicize the positive environmental features of their products and services, they should also be attentive to greater public scrutiny of “green” claims. Companies that engage in greenwashing—asserting exaggerated, misstated, >>> read more
European Lab Steering Group appointed focussing on non-financial reporting
Source: , 17 November 2018The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is pleased to announce that its General Assembly has appointed the members of the inaugural Steering Group of the European Lab@EFRAG (the ‘European Lab Steering Group’), selected from a broad range of stakeholder >>> read more
Sustainability reporting: 4 things companies get wrong
Source: , 16 November 2018From 100-page disclosures to a lack of standardisation in reports, here are four essential mistakes that companies make in their sustainability reports, according to GRI chief Tim Mohin. Some sustainability reports published today can run into the hundreds of pages, and busy executives >>> read more
New insights into “what investors want” with respect to non-financial information shows a need for enhancing credibility
Source: , 13 November 2018The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and PwC released a new report focused on what investors need in order to make decisions that consider non-financial information – that is, information outside of financial statements including environmental, social and >>> read more
CSE’s 3rd annual report finds AI and Blockchain growing nearly as quickly as UN SDGs in Sustainability Reporting
Source: , 9 November 2018The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announces its third annual report on Sustainability (ESG) Reporting Trends: North America 2018. This research provides a useful and convenient representation of the current state of Sustainability Reporting. It focuses on companies and organizations >>> read more
FEI adopts Global Reporting Initiative to improve sport’s sustainability
Source: , 9 November 2018From supporting the use of horse manure to generate electricity to implementing equestrian-specific reporting indexes and creating a comprehensive guide book for event organisers across the world, the FEI is leading the way in ensuring sustainability is at the heart >>> read more
SASB codifies sustainability accounting standards
Source: , 7 November 2018SASB launched today a complete set of 77 industry-specific sustainability accounting standards! The objective of the SASB standards is to enable companies around the world to identify, manage and communicate financially-material sustainability information to their investors. The standards are the culmination of six >>> read more
Leading corporate reporting bodies launch two-year project for better alignment
Source: , 7 November 2018Major international corporate reporting standard setters and framework providers have today [Wednesday 7 November 2018] announced a ground-breaking new two-year project focused on driving better alignment in the corporate reporting landscape, to make it easier for companies to prepare effective >>> read more
Teresa Fogelberg decorated as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands
Source: , 5 November 2018In a touching ceremony that saw her family, network and colleagues convened at the headquarters of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in Amsterdam, Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive at GRI was decorated as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau of >>> read more
In numbers: The state of corporate sustainability reporting
Source: , 27 October 2018Over the past 12 months, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has worked with consultancy Radley Yeldar to survey 158 corporates on their approach to sustainability reporting. Here, edie rounds-up the key findings. Undertaken by Radley Yeldar and >>> read more