As 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
The 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
From 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
The 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
The 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
From 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 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
Major 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
In 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
Over 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
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Radley Yeldar released the sixth edition of Reporting matters – WBCSD’s annual review of member companies’ sustainability and integrated reports. Spanning 158 leading companies from 17 supersectors and 31 countries, this year’s research points >>> read more
RepRisk, a global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data science company, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a global organization for sustainable development, are pleased to announce their partnership to provide ESG data for WBCSD’s 2018 review >>> read more