In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability reports have come to play an essential role in the development of corporate sustainability They are a means of tracking progress on key activities and performance indicators relating to CSR and >>> read more

Here’s something from the desk of bad advice: Sustainability reporting has grown, evolved, devolved and reimagined itself several times over the past decade. A review of the sustainability reporting from top 100 companies by Fortune reveals that sustainability data has benefited >>> read more

Although much has been said about the public sector lagging behind in terms of integrated reporting, research shows that integrated information and stakeholder engagement enable public sector pioneers to make better decisions, attune strategy to society’s needs and consequently create >>> read more

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