Catherine Raw, chief financial officer of miner Barrick Gold and previously co-manager of BlackRock’s flagship mining funds, said sustainability reporting needs to be audited in the same way as financials to become credible. Raw spoke at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business >>> read more

Environment, social and governance have become critical issues in the way investors judge companies, but corporates face too many ESG measures suffering from too little standardisation. But we now have scores of methods and providers. For my research, I investigated >>> read more

The UK’s corporate governance watchdog should explore ways to increase transparency in corporate reporting of company contributions towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to recommendations from an independent advisory group. The group’s report, Growing a culture of Social Impact >>> read more

According to the GRI database of sustainability reports, the number of firms which publicly disclosed their use of the GRI framework was lower in 2016 than 2015 (see infographic below). Despite GRI adoption growing at a 39% CAGR from 2005 to 2010 >>> read more

Investors are stepping up their appeals for robust corporate sustainability reporting, with increased focus on climate impact and long-term performance in a carbon-constrained world. These reports have been standard for some time, though the metrics and definitions for success have transformed >>> read more

September marked the fifth anniversary of a public comment that I and 65 other members of the Sustainability Context Group submitted to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the run-up to G4. G4, of course, was the next generation of GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines at the time, which since then >>> read more

GRI is taking part in three events to strengthen the contribution of the private sector to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by helping make reporting on them more comparable, encouraging private sector engagement and supporting collaboration between business and academia >>> read more

Ever since the inaugural Real Estate Assessment in 2009, the idea behind GRESB has never wavered: to provide transparency on the sustainability performance of real estate funds and companies so that investors can factor portfolio risks and opportunities into their >>> read more

​It’s been a year since the launch of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards); what has happened since?​ Launched on 19 October 2016, the GRI Standards are the latest evolution of GRI’s reporting framework, which has been developed through >>> read more

Erasmus+ project under the name Hi4CSR (Harmonization and implementation of EU CSR Directives) started inOctober 2016 and will last until April of 2018. It is a transeuropean project established by eight European organizations renowned in the field of CSR – >>> read more

Investors and the rest of the world are watching to see how companies will respond to the final recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) commissioned by Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England and chair of the >>> read more

The world’s largest companies are under-reporting sustainability policies and performance, hampering investors’ access to data that will allow them to play a full role in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to a new report.  The study, Measuring Sustainability Disclosure: >>> read more