Sustainability professionals are inundated with surveys, reporting frameworks and guidelines. As reporting metrics evolve, the industry needs accessible and consistent ways to evaluate performance. With more than 94 million pieces of corporate sustainability data in its database, CSRHub makes many >>> read more

Experts on sustainability reporting and inclusive business gathered in New York last month for a discussion on how business can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, one year on from their adoption. Launching a new publication at the annual >>> read more

Today, GRI launched the world’s first global standards for sustainability reporting, giving companies a common language for disclosing non-financial information. The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards will enable companies around the world to be more transparent about their impacts on the >>> read more

Today, GRI releases its new publication ‘Forging a path to integrated reporting: Insights from the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting’. The publication summarizes the work done by the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting (CLGir), revealing challenges, >>> read more

Participants in the <IR> Technology Initiative developed the new guide ‘Technology for Integrated Reporting’ for CFOs. The guide offers practical assistance for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) seeking to collaborate with chief information officers to craft technology capabilities that support and enable >>> read more

Nine groups—the AFL-CIO; Americans for Financial Reform; the Center for American Progress; Ceres; the Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency, or FACT, Coalition; the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable; Patriotic Millionaires; Public Citizen; and US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible >>> read more

The best sustainability reports from the group of the 150 largest German companies are those from BMW, Miele and the KfW-Bankengruppe. In SME sector the organic pioneer Arborvitae, the outdoor outfitter Vaude and the concrete and natural stone manufacturer Rinn were awarded >>> read more

Sustainability reporting by large and multinational companies has become commonplace over the last decade, however among small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the practice of sustainability reporting is not as widespread. GRI and the International Organisation of Employers (IoE), have released >>> read more

The private sector has a significant role to play in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and with the establishment of the SDGs in November last year, the accounting community now have a clear set of goals for their reporting >>> read more

PwC was involved in the development of the SDG Compass launched by GRI, UNGC and WBCSD. The SDG Compass provides guidance on the SDGs and an inventory of business specific SDG indicators. As a next step, PwC launched the SDG Challenge >>> read more

One year after the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2016 edition of Reporting matters, by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and consultants Radley Yeldar – points to positive progress by many of the world’s >>> read more

Sustainability Report. Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR) Report. Environmental, Social and Governance (or ESG) Report. As sustainability practitioners, we know it’s a report that goes by many names. Today, however, one element is unchanging: Reports that disclose material information on a company’s sustainability progress >>> read more