The Discussion Paper Towards Integrated Reporting – Communicating Value in the 21st Century considers the rationale for Integrated Reporting, offering initial proposals for the development of an International Integrated Reporting Framework and outlining the next steps towards its creation and adoption. Its purpose is to prompt input from all those with a stake in improved reporting, including producers and users of reports.
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today announced that its Executive Committee has approved the appointment of Peter Bakker as its new President effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Bakker, the former CEO of Dutch logistics giant TNT, succeeds Björn Stigson who will retire.
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Concern about climate change/global warming among online consumers around the world took a back-seat to other environmental issues such as air and water pollution, water shortages, packaging waste and use of pesticides, according to Nielsen’s 2011 Global Online Environment & Sustainability Survey of more than 25,000 Internet respondents in 51 countries.
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Many do not equate the environmentally focused activities of composting, recycling and using rechargeable batteries as primary activities of the highÃ??\income American jet set. But, according to a new report from Scarborough Research, the Ã??Ã??Super GreenÃ??Ã?? Ã??C those consumers who engage in the highest amount of environmentallyÃ??\friendly activities as measured by Scarborough Ã??C are top earners with a taste for luxury.
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The majority of businesses say that the benefits resulting from their sustainability initiatives have exceeded expectations, according to an international survey by Accenture (NYSE:
ACN). But a hard core minority of businesses does not see sustainability as a critical or strategic investment.
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Only a fraction of the world’s biggest companies are adequately managing the various risks they face from water shortages, drought and pollution, according to new research from independent environmental, social and governance (ESG) research provider EIRIS.
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The global sustainable business market will reach a tipping point in 2013 triggering rapid market expansion, according to new research findings from independent analyst firm Verdantix. Market forecasts analysing spending patterns of more than 2,500 global firms find that growth rates of investment in sustainable business programmes will be between 50% and 100% higher in 2013 than in 2011. Total spend on sustainable business programmes by $1bn revenues firms in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US markets alone will hit $60 billion in 2013.
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The Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO) put insurers Aviva and Aegon at the top of the heap of Europe’s 300 largest companies for their low levels of publicly-reported greenhouse gas emissions, relative to their revenue.
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A Third of Businesses globally yet to Implement Sustainability Plans, finds KPMG report. Measurement, finance and inconsistent regulation still obstacles to progress of sustainability.
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Sustainability en GlobeScan hebben een onderzoek uitgevoerd waaraan wereldwijd 550 duurzaamheidsexperts hebben deelgenomen. Deze experts verkozen Unilever als de leider op het gebied van duurzaamheid.
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The most comprehensive and complete sustainability reporting guidance is now available, as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launches its G3.1 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines today (23 March 2011). GRI is a network-based non-governmental organization that aims to make sustainability reporting common practice. GRI produces the world’s most widely used Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to enable the drive […]
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Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, today reports new data to confirm that mainstream consumers are increasing their commitment to Fair Trade faster than ever. Sales of Fair Trade Certified products increased 24 percent at grocery stores during 2010.
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