Karl-Johan Persson says a legal obligation on companies to report on their sustainability efforts would help raise standards and inform consumers. Sustainability reporting should be mandatory for all major companies, according to the managing director of Swedish clothing company H&M. >>> read more
GRI, pioneer of the world’s most trusted and widely used sustainability reporting standards, has published the first Reporting 2025 analysis paper, Sustainability and Reporting Trends in 2025: Preparing for the Future. The paper examines future trends in sustainability and corporate >>> read more
GRI is an international organization based in Amsterdam with offices around the world. It produces a set of standards used by organizations in over 90 countries and has become the global standard-setter for sustainability reporting. But as the organization’s Chief >>> read more
The biggest global organizations in corporate reporting (CDP, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, IASB, ISO, SASB and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IRRC)) have published a landscape map that provides a >>> read more
WBCSD and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) are developing a web-based tool and database to help business understand and navigate the complex and fragmented corporate sustainability reporting landscape. WBCSD’s vision for the economy is that by 2050 a business >>> read more
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced the launch of the Moving Beyond Disclosure: Leveraging Sustainability Reporting to Drive Change, a study undertaken in collaboration with GRI, the developer of the world’s >>> read more
With deference to those in the Southern Hemisphere, I’d like to formally welcome the return of spring! (Rossini, anyone?) After another brutal winter for parts of Europe, the US and Canada, this day already feels long overdue. For our business >>> read more
GRESB, the leading global benchmark for portfolio-level sustainability assessment of real estate companies and funds, today released its 2015 Survey. The data is used by almost 50 institutional investors, representing USD 6 trillion in assets under management. This year, GRESB >>> read more
In 1997, the International Corporate Environmental Reporting website (www.enviroreporting.com) was founded by Folkert van der Molen (Van der Molen Environmental Internet Services). This website brought as worldwide the first actual news and gave references to numerous sources, manuals etcetera. In 2002 www.Sustainability-Reports.Com >>> read more
Communicating and embedding sustainability throughout an organisation is often hampered by a ‘treacle layer’ at operational level which can make it harder for businesses to develop new environmental strategies and produce succinct corporate social responsibility reports. Thats the view of >>> read more
The multifaceted landscape of sustainability reporting has become overwhelming for businesses and is leading to a general lack of engagement around CSR communication. That was the argument put forward by Verity Lawson, sustainability reporting manager at British American Tobacco, at edie’s >>> read more
Today, GRI, architect of the worlds most widely used sustainability reporting standard, and RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing and which conducts the annual assessment for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, announce the launch of the new >>> read more