Today, GRI, pioneer of the sustainability reporting movement, and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) announced a new partnership to increase corporate transparency across the Pacific. With funding of $1,000,000 the partnership will promote sustainable trade and investment >>> read more
Today’s sustainability reporting model is bloated, burdensome, and broken. Its benefits do not outweigh its costs, and it should be discarded. That was the deliberately provocative statement of the debate I moderated at Facebook’s “Sustainability@Scale” event at their Menlo Park headquarters >>> read more
The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) – the independent body responsible for developing and issuing the Sustainability Reporting Standards – has issued an Interpretation on disclosure G4-32-b in the G4 Guidelines. From today, 5 August 2015, it is no longer >>> read more
Corporate responsibility professionals have nothing to fear from data. Increasingly sophisticated analysis is the key to understanding global supply chains, writes Tom Idle. Read the full blog
What does this latest development in CR disclosure requirements mean for you? In October 2014, the EU issued its directive on corporate disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by larger companies. In essence, this requires many companies headquartered or having significant >>> read more
With increasing pressure on companies to report transparently on environmental, social and other impacts, the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) has called for greater scrutiny of the accuracy and rigour of information reported. Previously seen as the purview of >>> read more
To support accountants in developing a greater awareness of how they can help their organizations address issues of sustainability and more fully incorporate these issues into business decisions, the International Federation of Accountants® (IFAC®) today released Accounting for Sustainability. From >>> read more
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) led by a group of investors, an NGO, a think tank and an investor research agency, today launched a public consultation on the first draft of indicators that will be used to rank companies >>> read more
Unilever has published its inaugural Human Rights Report. The report outlines Unilever’s goal not only to respect Human Rights but to actively advance them across all areas of its business. It documents areas where the company has taken significant steps >>> read more
“It’s all in our Sustainability Report.” That’s a phrase guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of even the hardiest sustainability wonks. The fact is, companies keep packaging their diligent, necessary and informative sustainability reporting in dense corporate documents that no one >>> read more
Today (30 June) we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the guidelines for sustainability reporting by the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI). The first edition (the ‘june 2000 guidelines’) where published on 30 june 2000. See the news of that moment. Read the >>> read more
Take a glimpse of the future with feedback from the latest 2degrees CR / Sustainability Reporting Spend Survey. “Sustainability is not about reporting,” says Klas Hallberg, manager of new developments in sustainability at Akzonobel, “but reporting is the basis for >>> read more