Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) today announced the shortlist of candidate reports for the Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Reporting Awards for 2006. Of the 102 sustainability reports received, 19 were selected for further consideration by the >>> read more

UK managers believe their current non-financial reporting systems are failing to focus their reporting enough on the ‘most important’ risks facing their organizations, according to new global research from Lloyds Register Quality Assurance. A mere 36% of UK businesses claimed >>> read more

A new AccountAbility report released today calls on companies to move beyond basic compliance approaches in dealing with social and environmental issues and to integrate them into their core business strategies and practices. "The Materiality Report: Aligning Strategy Performance and >>> read more

Of the 30 companies in the Fortune Global 500 energy and utilities sectors whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, National Grid (U. K.) again achieved the highest ranking in environmental and sustainability >>> read more

Up until early November, UK companies were not required to file CSR reports. With the passing of the Companies Act; the largest bill to pass through Commons, directors will have to report on what they are doing and therefore, having >>> read more

Tomorrow’s Value, SustainAbility’s fourth international benchmark of corporate sustainability reporting, has once again been developed in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard & Poor’s. This year we introduce a revised methodology, developed in close consultation with >>> read more

About one in every ten dollars of assets under management in the U.S. – an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24 trillion – is being invested in companies that rate highly on some measure of social responsibility. That’s a $2.3 >>> read more

Today, the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program publishes its seventh semi-annual Survey of Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Ten Largest Listed Companies (by market capitalization) in 11 Central and Eastern European (CEE) Countries. This edition of >>> read more

The UN Global Compact has launched a comprehensive, web-based tool – OneReport Communication on Progress (COP) Publisher – to help Global Compact participants prepare and publish progress reports on integrating the ten principles into day-to-day business operations and practices. Developed >>> read more

Significant improvements to sustainability reporting and data collection are likely to be needed to meet the requirements of the forthcoming Companies Bill (formerly known as the Company Law Reform Bill), based on newly-published CIMA funded research on sustainability reporting. Accounting >>> read more

The harmonization of voluntary standards and mandatory regulation will lead to higher quality and more useful corporate sustainability reporting, according to new research released here today. “Carrots and Sticks for Starters,” a joint report from the United Nations Environment Programme >>> read more

Companies and organisations will get a new and simpler "score card" to measure their social and environmental impact when the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) kicks off a major conference this week. Backed by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore as well >>> read more