Why 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
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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
GE Corporation Wins Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Best Sustainability Reporting
Source: CERES, 22 April 2009GE Corporation received the top sustainability reporting award today at the 2009 Ceres Conference in San Francisco, California, as part of international competition organized by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The winners, selected >>> read more
GRI kicks-off new supply chain transparency network with PUMA
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 21 April 2009The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today announced that sportlifestyle company PUMA has become the first member of its Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain ("The Network"). The central purpose of The Network is for large companies to >>> read more
Study Finds that Largest Indian Companies Need to Improve CSR Activities and Reporting
Source: SocialFunds.Com, 21 April 2009In its second annual report on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the 1,000 largest Indian companies, Karmayog, a Mumbai-based online organization, has found that on a scale of zero to five, 494 companies (49%) received the lowest score >>> read more
More Companies Publish CSR Reports in China Last Year
Source: RedNet.CN, 17 April 2009As of the end of 2008, more than 190 companies in China, including some foreign-funded firms, have published their annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports — compared with 19 in 2006, according to China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD) >>> read more
Reporting in recession Why bother reporting?
Source: Ethical Corporation, 9 April 2009Sustainability reporting makes even more sense in a hostile economic environment, says Kathee Rebernak We are in the midst of the first recession since the concepts of sustainability and corporate responsibility entered the global consciousness. With it has come much >>> read more
Companies that fail to link their ESG disclosures to corporate strategy fail to connect with investors
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 25 March 2009The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provider of the worlds most widely used framework for disclosure on environmental, social and governance data (ESG) – today released a report examining how companies can frame their ESG disclosures to meet the needs >>> read more