Nearly 800 sustainability reports are currently in the running for the inaugural GRI Readers Choice Awards. On December 31st the field of eligible reports will be reduced to a short-list based on reports with: • the highest volume of scores >>> read more

Dutch Sustainability Research (DSR) and Respect published findings of a benchmarking study on climate change best practice. The research indicates that corporations are taking part in numerous interesting and innovative climate change related initiatives. However, overall climate change disclosure remains >>> read more

All 55 state owned companies in Sweden have to file an annual sustainability report based on the Global Reporting Initiative (G3) Guidelines before the 31 March each year from 2009, the Swedish Government announced toda In a bid to improve >>> read more

BASF’s corporate website – www.basf.com – is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications. Jungle Rating – a Dutch internet consultancy – concludes this after having investigated all sustainability websites of the European sustainability >>> read more

Nestlé, Bunge, Tyson Foods and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters first to commit to multi-stakeholder development of GRI’s sector-specific indicators for sustainability reporting. Following the global trend in environmental awareness, paired with heightened consumer consciousness, food companies are increasingly facing new >>> read more

Early bird registration opens today! The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency featuring the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards offers you a great value and stimulating program with outstanding speakers. Click here to register now. Visit the conference website to >>> read more

Trying to figure out which companies will have the biggest environmental liabilities down the road? Check out what they’re saying about their environmental practices. A new study by four business researchers says the best environmental performers are those that give >>> read more

Almost every single company — 98 percent, to be precise — listed on the FTSE All-Share Index now mentions the environment in their annual reports. The down side is that for at least some of those companies, mention the environment >>> read more

Since 2006, UNEP Finance Initiative and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have jointly coordinated a working group to pilot and review the draft versions of the GRI Financial Services Sector Supplement (Environmental and Social Performance). s part of this piloting >>> read more

The World Council for Corporate Governance and the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence has named Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. a recipient of the 2007 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting. "The 2006 Coca-Cola Enterprises Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report, >>> 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

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