Environment Australia and the Department of Family and Community Services are putting together guidelines for companies reporting on sustainable issues, said Environment Australia. Anne Close, assistant director of the financial sector projects team and Environment Australia, said the guidelines in >>> read more

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)announced the availability of the Pre-Publication Release of the 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines on the Global Reporting Initiative web site This Pre-Publication Release is made available to all parties prior to the formal launch of the >>> read more

Pamphlet launched on eve of Jo’burg Rio +10 Summit argues that significant development impacts from ‘corporate responsibility’ will not be forthcoming unless it is integrated into national economic competitiveness strategies and practices. Authored by economists and leading corporate responsibility experts, >>> read more

How much capital flows when, where and for what purposes? Banks and financial service providers make these decisions, thereby exerting an enormous influence on economic and socio-political processes. They can also give significant impetus to sustainable development, for example by >>> read more

The Social Investment Forum, the national trade association for the socially responsible investing (SRI) industry, is calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go beyond the limited corporate governance reforms approved last week by the New York >>> read more

Is the scandal-fueled stock market slump turning more Americans into socially responsible investors? According to Lipper data released today by the nonprofit Social Investment Forum, socially and environmentally responsible mutual funds experienced positive asset growth in the first half of >>> read more

A new World Resources Institute (WRI) report released today calls on investors to pay closer attention to how oil and gas companies are exposed to environmental risks. The new WRI report, Changing Oil: Emerging environmental risks and shareholder value in >>> read more

Two years ago, the British Parliament became the first legislative body in the world to require reporting on socially responsible investing (SRI). The Pension Disclosure Regulation, which went into effect in July 2000, amended the 1995 Pensions Act to require >>> read more

The role of business in sustainable development is a key element in the coming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. A report published today overturns conventional wisdom by showing that it does pay for businesses in emerging markets to >>> read more

Companies selling consumer products are more attuned to criticism from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and pressure groups than those which only have professional clients, according to a new study from the Dutch based consultancy and engineering group DHV and Rotterdam’s Erasmus >>> read more

The Employers’ Forum on Disability today launches ‘The Employers’ Forum on Disability Global Inclusion Benchmark’ – an annual global benchmarking exercise to audit companies’ policies towards people with disabilities and help ensure that they are truly inclusive. Fifty corporate responsibility >>> read more

On July 11th the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) launched a new study on the business case for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), ‘Sustainability Pays’, produced by the Centre for Sustainable Investment at Forum for the Future. CIS set out to answer >>> read more