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

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) have released the second report as part of a series called Insights from the Reporting Exchange.  The new research takes a closer look into opportunities for >>> read more

he new joint program, which includes a partnership with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will stimulate responsible business to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.​ The Swedish government has been a pioneer in establishing policies and best practice for sustainability >>> read more

The recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) received a major boost on 22 March with Belgian capital markets supervisors and its stock exchange publicly declaring their support. Pan-European stock exchange Euronext, the Financial Services and Markets >>> read more

A new report released today by CDP and CDSB shows that there is a gap between the way companies identify climate-related risks and opportunities and how they are preparing to tackle them. The research into 1,681 companies across 14 countries and 11 sectors >>> read more