A partnership between the University of Sydney and CPA Australia, has successfully obtained funding under the Commonwealth Government’s Australian Research Council Linkage Projects to develop a framework for managing and reporting non-financial information. The three year, million dollar project is >>> read more

New indicators which will help UK businesses to manage and report their impacts on the environment have been published today for consultation by Environment Minister Elliot Morley. Defra has produced this new generation of guidelines which aim to help businesses >>> read more

News update from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), june 2005. Continued Consultation with Investors Community 6/29/2005 The first Investors Consultation Group meeting took place this month in London, organised jointly by GRI and the UNEP Finance Initiative (FI). G3 Update: Progress >>> read more

Akzo Nobel publiceert vandaag haar eerste rapport over Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen (MVO), waarin de onderneming verzekert dat het Triple P (People, Planet, Profit)-concept dient als basis voor de bedrijfsvoering. Om het wereldwijde karakter van deze aanpak binnen de onderneming te >>> read more

Akzo Nobel is today launching its first ever Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, heralding the company’s solid commitment to anchoring the Triple P concept as a cornerstone of its business operations. To underline the company-wide nature of this focused approach, >>> read more

Germany was and still is leading in EMAS registrations in absolute figures as well as in relation to habitants. But since three years the number of EMAS registrations is falling back against ISO 14001 in Germany. Internationally EMAS already has >>> read more

MALAYSIAN companies need to adopt sustainability reporting to go beyond compliance to corporate governance, said Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Malaysia (ACCA). Its head, Tay Kay Luan, said that not only will they demonstrate transparency and accountability, communicating such sustainable >>> read more

Corporate responsibility (CR) reporting in industrialized countries has clearly entered the mainstream, with Japan and UK in the lead. There has been a dramatic change from purely environmental reporting up until 1999 to sustainability reporting in 2005, encompassing social, ethical, >>> read more

An extensive process is underway to update the 2002 Global Report Initiative (GRI) Guidelines by mid-2006. As part of its contribution to this process, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has published a free report drawing on the experiences of 19 >>> read more

CGA-Canada, in cooperation with the CGA-Canada Research Foundation, has released a new report on the emerging field of corporate sustainability reporting. The report, titled Measuring Up: A Study on Sustainability Reporting in Canada, is based on a survey of more >>> read more

Companies can turn regulatory compliance and heightened corporate governance efforts into opportunities that create value for their businesses, according to a new report from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Companies now invest heavily in time and money >>> read more

Global Reporting Initiative News Update – May 2005 Now Open: Public comment period for the Logistics and Transportation Sector Supplement 5/24/2005 In partnership with the Logistics & Transportation Corporate Citizenship Initiative of the World Economic Forum (L&TCCI WEF), the GRI >>> read more