Unilever has published its inaugural Human Rights Report. The report outlines Unilever’s goal not only to respect Human Rights but to actively advance them across all areas of its business. It documents areas where the company has taken significant steps >>> read more
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Would You Want to Read Your Company’s Sustainability Report?
Source: Sustainable Brands, 2 July 2015“It’s all in our Sustainability Report.” That’s a phrase guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of even the hardiest sustainability wonks. The fact is, companies keep packaging their diligent, necessary and informative sustainability reporting in dense corporate documents that no one >>> read more
15 years GRI Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting!
Source: , 30 June 2015Today (30 June) we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the guidelines for sustainability reporting by the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI). The first edition (the ‘june 2000 guidelines’) where published on 30 june 2000. See the news of that moment. Read the >>> read more
What is the future of reporting?
Source: 2degrees, 26 June 2015Take a glimpse of the future with feedback from the latest 2degrees CR / Sustainability Reporting Spend Survey. “Sustainability is not about reporting,” says Klas Hallberg, manager of new developments in sustainability at Akzonobel, “but reporting is the basis for >>> read more
BlackRock, Ceres Launch Investor Guide on US Corporate Engagement
Source: BlackRock, 24 June 2015The world’s largest asset manager, has teamed up with nonprofit sustainability leader Ceres to create guidance for U.S. institutional investors on engaging with companies and policymakers on sustainability issues. The guide, 21st Century Engagement: Investor Strategies for Incorporating ESG Considerations into Corporate Interactions, includes >>> read more
ABN AMRO first financial institution to report on human rights efforts
Source: , 23 June 2015ABN AMRO is pleased to announce it is the first financial institution to apply the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework to next year’s Sustainability Report in order to report on the bank’s on-going efforts to implement corporate responsibility policies and >>> read more
10 top reporting tips from the experts
Source: GreenBiz.com, 23 June 2015For many of you, it’s reporting season, and you’re knee-deep in data. We’ve got reporting on the brain too; 2degrees recently held its Reporting and Performance Masterclass, tackling the headache of materiality, stakeholder engagement and all things troubling that sustainability report >>> read more
CDSB publishes framework for reporting environmental information and natural capital
Source: , 17 June 2015The CDSB Framework sets out an approach to reporting environmental information & natural capital in mainstream reports, such as the annual report, 10-K filing or integrated report. The CDSB Framework for reporting environmental information & natural capital is designed to >>> read more
Joint statement of collaboration by CDSB and the IIRC
Source: , 17 June 2015The statement, signed at the time of the launch of the CDSB Reporting Framework for environmental and natural capital information, sets out how CDSB and the IIRC collaborate. CDSB and the IIRC share a vision of a corporate reporting regime >>> read more
Sustainability software provider CRedit360 announced as SASB ERP Partner
Source: , 16 June 2015The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) today announced leading sustainability software provider credit360 as a partner in the SASB Enterprise Resource Platform Program. Companies use credit360’s leading sustainability software to access SASB disclosure guidance, collect and compile data for SASB >>> read more
Blog: Leading indicators for sustainable business change
Source: , 16 June 2015With the publication of the IIRC framework in December 2013, a handful Dutch corporates have taken on the journey of Integrated Reporting. Finally an escape from the endless list of GRI indicators to be reported in separate sustainability reports. The >>> read more
Blog: Will GRI’s new strategy work?
Source: , 15 June 2015GRI has taken on a big role: “Empowering Sustainable Decisions.” The new tagline of GRI’s 2015-2020 strategy is rather broad brush. GRI is aiming to reach beyond the way organizations collate and report sustainability information to the place where the >>> read more