A federal parliamentary committee has recommended that CSR reporting should remain a voluntary activity for Australian businesses. The Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has stated that it does not believe that mandatory standards will lead to improvements, but >>> read more

Corporate social responsibility reporting has been slammed as "almost universally trivial" by a St Andrews professor of accounting and advisor to the Scottish Executive. The report by professor Jan Bebbington and St Andrews University colleague professor Rob Gray added that >>> read more

News update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). 06/13/2006 Introducing the Logistics and Transportation Sector Supplement After over a year’s worth of work by a multi-stakeholder working group, convened with the help of the World Economic Forum’s Logistics & Transportation >>> read more

Of the 30 companies in the pharmaceuticals sector whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2005, the midsized American firms Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories clearly had the best environmental and sustainability reporting based >>> read more

In 2006, German companies have to disclose material non-financial sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) for the first time in their financial reports for the financial year 2005. In an empirical survey 87.5% of the answering DAX-30-companies will integrate such indicators >>> read more

Of the 30 companies in the chemicals sector whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, the largest, BASF (Germany), clearly had the best environmental and sustainability reporting based on the Center’s Pacific Sustainability >>> read more

The Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program published its sixth semi-annual Survey of Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Ten Largest Listed Companies (by market capitalization) in 11 Central and Eastern European (CEE) Countries. Companies in Czech Republic, >>> read more

New update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), april 2006. GRI Conference – A world class networking and learning opportunity Registration for this conference was announced two weeks ago, and already 100 tickets have been sold. Be one of a >>> read more

EU-funded survey on the environmental performance of 65 European manufacturing companies published today / New approach applies rules of financial markets to environmental performance by companies / “A company creates value only if it uses an environmental resource more efficiently >>> read more

Of the 30 companies in the Electronics and Semiconductor and Peripherals sectors whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, Hitachi (Japan) had clearly the best environmental and sustainability reporting based on the Center’s >>> read more

When David Wheeler was part of The Body Shop’s senior management team in the 1990s, the company was winning international accolades for the transparency of its reporting, not just on financial performance, but also on environmental and social responsibility issues. >>> read more

Nike Inc. and Hewlett-Packard have received the top sustainability reporting awards in an international competition sponsored by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The winners, selected from a record 87 nominations, also included Seventh >>> read more