Global sustainable investment specialists EIRIS today published The state of responsible business: Global corporate response to environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges which provides a snapshot of the state of responsible business around the globe. The report details findings of >>> read more

Thousands of companies issue sustainability reports each year – but who reads them? What do these readers think of reports? Do reports meet the needs of communities, investors, employees, customers, journalists, and non-governmental organizations? The GRI Readers’ Choice Award was >>> read more

Sustainability reporting is becoming more common than not among the world’s top brands, according to recent research from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The organization looked at the world’s top 100 brands, as ranked by Interbrand and Business Week in the >>> read more

Of the 18 companies in the aerospace and defense sector of the 2005 Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 1000 whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in late 2005, Rockwell Collins (US), one of the >>> read more

Half of the US’s top 100 companies are now reporting on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, according to a study by social investment researchers. Of the companies in the S&P 100 Index, 49 had issued comprehensive ESG reports >>> read more

Of the 12 companies in the Fortune Global 500 mail, freight, and shipping sectors whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, Royal Mail Group (UK) was graded A+ and United Parcel Service (US) >>> read more

Vancity Group and Bristol-Myers Squibb received the top sustainability reporting awards today in an international competition hosted by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The winners, selected from a record 102 nominations, also included >>> read more

Of the 16 companies in the Fortune Global 500 medical products and equipment sector whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, Baxter achieved by far the highest ranking in environmental and sustainability reporting >>> read more

by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.Com Weeks after the latest SEC roundtable on interactive data, the Global Reporting Initiative releases a draft taxonomy of XBRL tags mapped to G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The dawning of the electronic age has radically transformed the >>> read more

Deze maand lanceert de European Sustainability Reporting Association (ESRA) het nieuw gevormde ESRA – (voorheen European Sustainability Reporting Awards) – reporting project. Helle Bank Jørgensen, Voorzitter van ESRA, verklaart: “De lancering is zeer geschikt daar meer en meer bedrijven onthullen >>> read more

Of the largest 30 companies in the Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 1000 industrial and and farm equipment sectors whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed by the Roberts Environmental Center in 2006, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) achieved the highest >>> read more

Within the next two years, 89% of companies in the United States and 62% in Europe plan to use technology to manage their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, according to a new AMR Research survey. However, while environmental issues are >>> read more