The first draft of the Airport Sustainability Reporting Guidelines is now available for public consultation. This consultation process is an important step towards developing uniform sustainability reporting guidelines, an initiative taken by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). For the past >>> read more
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The three most important Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators for 68 industries
Source: SD-M, 18 January 2010On behalf of the German Federal Environment Ministry and with participation of leading sustainable investors/analysts, who influence sustainable assets of c. Euro 2 trillion with offices in all important industrial countries, Dr. Axel Hesse (SD-M) has defined the three most >>> read more
CSR Reporting by S&P 100 Companies Shows Improvement in 2009
Source: Institutionalshareowner.com, 2 January 2010Two recently commissioned reports by the Social Investment Forum chart the progress of corporate social responsibility reporting, both in the US and emerging markets. Two reports from the Social Investment Forum (SIF) provide important updates on the status of corporate >>> read more
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis Tops Pharmaceutical Sustainability Report
Source: Roberts Environmental Center (REC), 16 December 2009Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis earned the two highest scores in the pharmaceutical sector for sustainability reporting, according to a report from the Roberts Environmental Center (REC) at Claremont McKenna College. The report, Sustainability Reporting of the Worlds Largest Pharmaceutical Companies, >>> read more
CSR Reporting in China study released
Source: CSR China, 16 December 2009On 2 December, Mr. Gefei Yin, the Director of Development Centre for Chinese CSR of China WTO Tribune introduced the Research on CSR Reporting in China (2001-2009) at an international conference in Beijing. Main findings of the research include the >>> read more
GRI Readers Choice Awards open!
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 14 December 2009The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provider of the worlds most widely used sustainability reporting framework this week announced the opening of scoring for the second biennial Readers Choice Awards in which the readers of sustainability reports have their >>> read more
Companies fearful of embracing open online sustainability debate
Source: The Guardian, 15 October 2009Why businesses are failing to use web 2.0 to become more transparent in their CSR reporting. I spent some time this week presenting our new sustainability reporting website to a group of senior CSR executives as part of a roundtable >>> read more
Are sustainability reports fit for your purpose? Have your say at the GRI Readers Choice Awards
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 15 October 2009The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its partners invite both readers and preparers of sustainability reports to participate in their second global survey. Both readers and preparers of sustainability reports are invited to register online from yesterday to find out >>> read more
Holy Grail of Integrated Reporting
Source: SustainAbility, 30 September 2009A conversation between SustainAbility co-founder John Elkington and Jean-Philippe Renaut, who leads SustainAbilitys Engaging Stakeholders Program. Jean-Philippe Renaut: John, you took part in a session on integrated business reporting at Clarence House early in September. What was that about? John >>> read more
Number of companies worldwide reporting on their sustainability performance reaches record high, yet still a minority
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 5 August 2009The number of companies and other organisations publicly disclosing their performance against a range of key sustainability indicators has risen markedly over the last year, according to new figures from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The Global Reporting Initiative is >>> read more
CSR Reporting in China
Source: CSR Asia, 9 July 2009The last fiscal year saw a large number of CSR reports released by Chinese companies in China. When reading these reports, you will find that while they all look pretty, not all of them are informative or useful. Some of >>> read more
Companies Are Slow to Adopt Interactive Technologies in GRI Reporting
Source: SocialFunds.Com, 26 May 2009In a joint research project with Radley Yeldar, a UK-based communications consultancy, GRI recently published a report entitled Trends in online sustainability reporting, which seeks to identify the degree to which 40 international corporations that use the GRI Guidelines utilize >>> read more