AccountAbility released yesterday its next-generation sustainability management framework and guidance – the 2018 AccountAbility Principles. The AA1000AP (2018) is a timely, informed update to the firm’s internationally accepted, principles-based approach to sustainability management for the 21st century. For over two >>> read more

In the past year, the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) underwent exciting changes. By June of 2018, report preparers will have transitioned from the G4 Guidelines to the GRI Standards. And now, more than ever, the Global Sustainability Standards >>> read more

An online database that examines the environmental, social, and governance reporting requirements for 60 countries might just be the answer to calls for more harmonisation and alignment of ESG reporting.  The Reporting Exchange is a free online platform run by the World Business >>> read more

Global companies that employ nearly 3.5 million people, with millions more working in their supply chains, have started to respond to calls for better workforce data – a request aimed at improving the quality of jobs worldwide and addressing poverty in less >>> read more

Today the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) announced the launch of the TCFD Knowledge Hub – a platform with relevant insights, tools and resources to help organizations implement the TCFD recommendations >>> read more

The prevalence and prominence of sustainability as a vital concept in the world – let alone the business community – is now clear. It has been driven by a host of dynamics that are both native to, and external from, >>> read more

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in partnership with the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released “Materiality in corporate reporting,” a White Paper focused on corporate disclosure of environmental, social and governance >>> read more

Sustainability reporting has become a common business practice in the United States, and now research shows that sustainability assurance efforts more than pay for themselves in a majority of companies. Independent assurance of sustainability reports is growing but remains uncommon >>> read more

Reporting 3.0, a global public good platform leveraging economic system transformation via the fulcrum of disclosure, announces an exciting speaker line-up and program for the 5th International Reporting 3.0 Conference hosted at KPMG in Amsterdam on 12-13 June 2018. Confirmed >>> read more

The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced a project to help improve companies’ minerals sourcing due diligence and impact reporting by providing reporting resources and tools based on internationally recognized frameworks. Increasingly, governments and other >>> read more

The International Co-operative Alliance has published a new guide for co-ops on sustainability reporting. The Alliance’s updated Sustainability Reporting for Co-operatives: A Guidebook, builds on the organisation’s reports on the Sustainability Scan and Co-operative Growth for the 21st Century. It also includes the feedback of primary co-operatives around >>> read more

Companies worldwide struggle to measure and report how well they are “doing good” as they do well for their stakeholders. Corporate finance managers might well roll their eyes when they hear the term “ESG.” This trendy acronym stands for environmental, >>> read more