The Big Four financial audit firms are the top “green counters,” too, leading the market in corporate sustainability assurance services, according to a new Verdantix analysis of global sustainability assurance providers. Read the full article by following the link,

A new format for providing sustainability data will help investors, auditors and analysts use information in sustainability reports more quickly and easily, thanks to a new ambitious program announced today by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Deloitte. A kick-off >>> read more

De Award for Best Belgian Sustainability Report 2011 beloont de ondernemingen en andere entiteiten die naast hun financieel-economische gegevens ook rapporteren op een transparante manier over hun maatschappelijk welzijnsaspecten en hun impact op het milieu. De rapporten Duurzaam Ondernemen zijn >>> read more

It’s no secret that more and more companies are placing greater importance on CSR initiatives. As CSR moves from boardroom conversation to implementation, clear reporting and accurate measurement is now an integral part of most CSR initiatives. Transparent, data-driven communications >>> read more

John Elkington is cheered by the prospect of a new generation that seems ready to embrace integrated reporting Who’d have thought it? Corporate reporting is exciting again. As the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) convened last week, this time in >>> read more

e stand teetering between the old and the new. This next decade, we predict, will be the test of all of us. Not because of what might be, but because of what is. We have long said that things we >>> read more

The proportion of sustainability reports undergoing external assurance in the U.S. is 66 percent lower than the global average, according to figures published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today. Data for 2010 (pdf) shows that about half of GRI-based >>> read more

Sustainability reports are becoming more reliable, according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Figures from the GRI Reports List published today (Wednesday 11 May 2011), alongside GRI’s Year in Review 2009/10, suggest that more companies are having their sustainability reports >>> read more

The next generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines is now under development, announces GRI today (4 May 2011). GRI is asking its network and the public to provide input in this first phase of development, to help shape the world’s most >>> read more

It’s springtime and most sustainability teams are in the midst of finishing or have just finished their corporate sustainability reports, Carbon Disclosure Project submittals and other external surveys. This now-annual spring ritual provides sustainability leaders the opportunity to re-secure management >>> read more

Sustainability experts are calling on regulators to ask companies for information on how sustainable they are – or explain why if they choose not to provide it. Today the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launches the Report or Explain Campaign Forum >>> read more

Most reports neither provide information that is useful to investors nor data that enables a robust assessment of a company’s performance. Read the full article by following the link.