GE 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

In 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

The 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

As 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

Sustainability 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

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – provider of the world’s 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

In the second part of BusinessGreen.com’s series on CSR reporting, we investigate the steps firms should be taking to ensure their reports avoid the dreaded "greenwash" label. The increase in the number of companies producing CSR reports may be widely >>> read more

In the first of an exclusive three-part series on CSR and sustainability reporting, BusinessGreen.com analyses the dos and don’ts of successful CSR reports. In the early days of CSR reporting, most non-financial reports were either exclusively environmental in focus or >>> read more

Companies and investment analysts are divided on the benefits of integrating non-financial information into annual reports. When the Danish government passed legislation in December requiring the country’s largest 1,100 companies to include information on corporate social responsibility in their annual >>> read more

Media sector sustainability reporting guidance will soon be in development, coordinated through a new innovative partnership between The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), AVINA Foundation Colombia, Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation (FNPI), and The Program of Journalism Studies of the Javeriana University. >>> read more

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, today announces that its Triple P report 2008 achieves an A+ according to the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The A+ rating is >>> read more

What do companies such as Whole Foods, Burt’s Bees and Lowe’s have that corporate America craves? According to consumers: eco-sensibility. Consumers believe that when they support companies like these, they do more than just shop. They align themselves with businesses >>> read more