It’s that time of year again. Time to gather emissions data and other environment-related metrics to prepare corporate sustainability reports and respond to CDP’s, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project’s, annual climate questionnaire. Luckily for companies, reporting organizations are increasingly streamlining their frameworks and >>> read more
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UN Global Compact Takes a Action to Help SMEs Report on Progress in Sustainability
Source: UN Global Compact, 2 April 2016Today the United Nations Global Compact launched the express Communication on Progress (COP) to help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) publicly communicate progress on their sustainability efforts. With the express COP the UN Global Compact takes a proactive step to >>> read more
Corporate Reporting Dialogue releases a Statement of Common Principles of Materiality
Source: IIRC, 30 March 2016A comparison of materiality definitions and approaches by eight of the world’s most prominent organizations in corporate reporting is released today. The principles in this paper represent common foundational principles that participants of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue believe to be >>> read more
John Elkington appointed Chairman of the GRI Technology Consortium
Source: GRI, 29 March 2016Today, GRI announced the appointment of sustainability thought-leader and author John Elkington as chairman of the recently established GRI Technology Consortium. John will lead the group and provide his extraordinary vision of a future where business works at the intersection >>> read more
Do corporate responsibility reports take ecological limits into account?
Source: Elsevier, 23 March 2016The recent agreement at the COP21 in Paris included the aims of maintaining average global temperature increases “well below” 2°C. The 2°C guardrail and planetary boundaries are rapidly gaining wider interest, also in industry circles. But are ecological limits also >>> read more
Action on Climate Change: GRI and CDP issue guidance to help organizations disclose their impacts
Source: GRI, 18 March 2016GRI, pioneer of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards, and CDP, host of the largest global collection of self-reported climate change, water and forest-risk data, have just released their latest linkage guidance to support companies in their reporting >>> read more
GRI predicts new formats for sustainability reporting and real-time stakeholder interaction
Source: , 16 March 2016Today, GRI released The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure: Digital, Responsible, Interactive, a digital publication that maps out the future of sustainability reporting and disclosure. According to GRI, the future will involve new formats with organizations moving from annual reports >>> read more
Battle of giants: GRI vs SASB vs IR
Source: GreenBiz, 15 March 2016Navigating the unexplored waters of EESG frameworks and indicators is not an easy task, especially if you are not confident in your map. With all the “maps” (i.e. frameworks and guidelines) available, choosing the right one is a crucial decision for the “captain” >>> read more
Keep UK mandatory carbon reporting rules, businesses urge Treasury
Source: Business Green, 11 March 2016The UK must keep its mandatory carbon reporting requirements, business leaders have today urged the Treasury ahead of an imminent decision on carbon reporting and taxation rules in next week’s Budget. In a letter published this morning in The Independent executives >>> read more
Bloomberg LP announced as Lead Media Partner for GRI Global Conference
Source: , 9 March 2016Today GRI announced Bloomberg LP as Lead Media Partner for the 5th GRI Global Conference taking place from 18 – 20 May 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The GRI Conference, which already has more than 100 expert speakers confirmed, attracts more >>> read more
Integrated Reporting: Solution to a Global Reporting Challenge
Source: Huffington Post, 4 March 2016In an age of disclosure overload the term “integrated report” may be met with hesitation. Countless corporate reports with numerous data points on varying issues sit stacked on shelves in offices around the world. No doubt, these publications are the >>> read more
GSSB to revise ‘Employee / Worker’ terminology for GRI Standards in line with ILO Standards
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 1 March 2016GRI Standards are designed to enhance the global comparability and quality of sustainability information, resulting in greater transparency on economic, environmental and social impacts. The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) strives to align GRI Standards with international norms and standards >>> read more