INREV, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, was launched in May 2003 to act for investors and other participants in the growing non-listed real estate vehicles sector. INREV published the new Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. View our >>> read more

CSR Europe is reinforcing its work on governance and accountability through a new work stream on tax and responsible tax behaviour. This development stems from the expert roundtable that CSR Europe hosted successfully on September 27-28 in Brussels. The event >>> read more

Even though SASB, GRI, and IIRC, cater to the same market, sustainability information providers, each company’s biggest end users are different. Nevertheless some, particularly SASB and GRI, behave as if in competition with each other, which does not help either >>> read more

A growing number of investors are looking for high quality information on a company’s sustainability performance. Earlier this year Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, called on S&P 500 CEOs to demonstrate how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors contribute to >>> read more

For many sustainability practitioners materiality can be a sticky subject. However, complexity and confusion are not legitimate reasons to disregard the subject entirely. Several factors are driving interest in the topic of materiality right now, including the Security and Exchange >>> read more

Investors expect companies to disclose environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information they can trust and understand.  But there is work to be done to bridge the gap between what investors want and what companies are providing. A new report by >>> read more

A while back I published an overview of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards Exposure Draft. Well, now, the Standards are no longer in draft form. They are in real-live-downloadable-usable-bloggable format. Not an awful lot has changed since the Exposure Draft. >>> read more

Many people ask me what changes to expect over the next few years in corporate disclosure of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics. In the past, corporate ESG disclosures have been scattered, inconsistent, and confusing. Please don’t blame company sustainability >>> read more

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