On 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

Two 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 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 World’s Largest Pharmaceutical Companies,” >>> read more

On 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

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

The 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

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

A conversation between SustainAbility co-founder John Elkington and Jean-Philippe Renaut, who leads SustainAbility’s ‘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

The 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

The 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

In 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 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