Disclosure of environmental, human rights and social risks is moving from its home between the glossy pages of voluntary reports into the hard-nosed realm of mandatory legal requirements, as evidenced by recent developments in the European Union and India. Corporate >>> read more

Michael Meehan has become GRI’s new Chief Executive. He succeeds Ernst Ligteringen who is leaving the organization after 12 years of exceptional leadership. The announcement of Mr. Meehan’s appointment on 22 July resulted in a flurry of press and media >>> read more

Stelt uw organisatie een rapport Duurzaam Ondernemen op? Twijfel dan niet om deel te nemen aan de 16de editie van de Award for Best Belgian Sustainability Report! Deelnemers worden opgesplitst in vier categorieën: 1/ Grote organisaties 2/ Kleine en middelgrote >>> read more

In an analysis just completed by the Governance & Accountability Institute research team, seventy two percent (72%) of the companies included in The S&P 500 Index® were found to have published a sustainability or corporate responsibility report. The index is >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has recently published ‘Sustainability Matters’, a new policy paper collating the organisations view’s on various sustainability-related issues. The paper sets out ACCA’s thinking on six topics: sustainability reporting integrated reporting the assurance of >>> read more

De jaarlijkse ronde voor de MVO Transparantiebenchmark van het Ministerie van EZ is weer van start gegaan. De doelgroep van de Transparantiebenchmark blijft hetzelfde in 2014, namelijk de circa 500 grootste bedrijven van Nederland. Naar aanleiding van de conclusies van >>> read more

The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines kick in after the end of 2015, and companies need to prepare for its main focus: materiality. Mint Kang reports. This year, companies that adhere to international standards for sustainability reporting are preparing for >>> read more

Today, the European Parliament adopted the long-awaited directive on the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies. “This vote is a victory for transparency and this is a great day for the future of sustainability reporting,” said >>> read more

Sustainability advocacy group Ceres, in collaboration with BlackRock and other major institutional investors, today announced an initiative to engage global stock exchanges via the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) on a possible uniform reporting standard for sustainability reporting by all >>> read more

In recent years, a lot of buzz has been in the media about rising levels of sustainability reporting among large corporations. However, there has been comparatively little discussion of how smaller companies fit into the trend of increasing disclosure. Read >>> read more

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has formed a new sustainability working group at its Working Committee meeting in Mumbai last week. The new Sustainability Working Group is comprised of representatives from a diverse array of global stock exchanges with >>> read more

Annually, Methodologie reviews and assesses the annual reports and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports for the Fortune 100 companies. We look for trends by reviewing each of the companies’ reports, looking at the size, scope, content and the types >>> read more