Worldwide, less than 1/3 of stock exchanges provide written guidance to their listed companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure. In response to this, the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative, along with a diverse advisory group chaired >>> read more

I have a problem with sustainability reporting. Actually, I have a lot of them, but one at a time. Materiality, as used in sustainability reports, has, more often than not, become a complete throwaway exercise in order to achieve a rubber >>> read more

Sustainability reporting has gone through several waves of evolution over the past decade. These waves have flowed from simple website posting of information to the creation of Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability reports to reporting across the value chain (from suppliers to customers). >>> read more

Last month marks exactly 15 years since the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) release of the first version of its sustainability reporting guidelines. Folkert van der Molen gives you an overview. This blog originally appeared here in Dutch on Pulse on >>> read more

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) has published a briefing discussing the evolving corporate reporting landscape, especially as it relates to addressing sustainability issues. Topics covered in the briefing include: discussion of the evolving corporate reporting landscape in a >>> read more

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