Globe Award Nominees for Sustainability Research.
The Globe Forum has published the Nominees for the 2009 Globe Award for Sustainability Research. Globe Award’s Sustainability Research Award is given to original research which successfully contributes to increased knowledge on sustainability.
The 2009 Nominees are:
1.Bengt Sture Ershag, Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB for an Innovation called Carbonizing by Forced Convection, a technology that thermally [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting
The Board of the Global Reporting Initiative has issued the Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting.
The Board calls on government to design policies requiring companies to address publicly environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
According to GRI’s Board, the governments should:
introduce policies requiring companies to report on ESG factors or publicly explain why they have not [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Time for legal reforms?
The European Coalition for Corporate Justice has published a report “Fair Law: Legal Proposals to Improve Corporate Accountability for Environmental and Human Rights Abuses” in which it makes several proposals for regulatory reforms in the European Union designed to improve the accountability of MNE’s.
The European Coalition for Corporate Justice has prepared this study in response [...]
Reporting in 2008
KPMG has published on October, 27 its International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting. The 2008 survey was conducted in 22 countries and with more than 2200 businesses around the world. The sample has included the Global Fortune (G250) and the 100 largest companies by revenue (N100) in 22 countries.
One of the most significant findings of [...]
GRI financial services sector supplement was published
A short but very actual notice.
After a 5 year process, the Financial Services Sector Supplement (FSSS) is now finalized.At this moments of financial crisis, disclosure standards in the financial services sector are more than welcomed.
The Financial Services Sector Supplement was developed in several stages, the development of social
indicators, environmental indicators, and then the merging of these [...]
The future of CSR
I have read a couple of days ago a recent article, “Is CSR failing?” by Wayne Visser posted on CSRinternational.
He is a CSR supporter but he emphasizes that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has failed to reduce social “bads” like poverty, human rights abuses or environmental degradation and argues that CSR needs to evolve exactly like [...]
