For many sustainability practitioners materiality can be a sticky subject. However, complexity and confusion are not legitimate reasons to disregard the subject entirely. Several factors are driving interest in the topic of materiality right now, including the Security and Exchange >>> read more

Investors expect companies to disclose environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information they can trust and understand.  But there is work to be done to bridge the gap between what investors want and what companies are providing. A new report by >>> read more

A while back I published an overview of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards Exposure Draft. Well, now, the Standards are no longer in draft form. They are in real-live-downloadable-usable-bloggable format. Not an awful lot has changed since the Exposure Draft. >>> read more

Many people ask me what changes to expect over the next few years in corporate disclosure of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics. In the past, corporate ESG disclosures have been scattered, inconsistent, and confusing. Please don’t blame company sustainability >>> read more

Sustainability professionals are inundated with surveys, reporting frameworks and guidelines. As reporting metrics evolve, the industry needs accessible and consistent ways to evaluate performance. With more than 94 million pieces of corporate sustainability data in its database, CSRHub makes many >>> read more

Experts on sustainability reporting and inclusive business gathered in New York last month for a discussion on how business can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, one year on from their adoption. Launching a new publication at the annual >>> read more

Today, GRI launched the world’s first global standards for sustainability reporting, giving companies a common language for disclosing non-financial information. The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards will enable companies around the world to be more transparent about their impacts on the >>> read more

Today, GRI releases its new publication ‘Forging a path to integrated reporting: Insights from the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting’. The publication summarizes the work done by the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting (CLGir), revealing challenges, >>> read more

Participants in the <IR> Technology Initiative developed the new guide ‘Technology for Integrated Reporting’ for CFOs. The guide offers practical assistance for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) seeking to collaborate with chief information officers to craft technology capabilities that support and enable >>> read more

Nine groups—the AFL-CIO; Americans for Financial Reform; the Center for American Progress; Ceres; the Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency, or FACT, Coalition; the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable; Patriotic Millionaires; Public Citizen; and US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible >>> read more

The best sustainability reports from the group of the 150 largest German companies are those from BMW, Miele and the KfW-Bankengruppe. In SME sector the organic pioneer Arborvitae, the outdoor outfitter Vaude and the concrete and natural stone manufacturer Rinn were awarded >>> read more

Sustainability reporting by large and multinational companies has become commonplace over the last decade, however among small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the practice of sustainability reporting is not as widespread. GRI and the International Organisation of Employers (IoE), have released >>> read more