The GRI and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Global Compact have formed a new cooperative framework. Companies endorsing the Global Compact’s nine-point principles covering human, labour and environmental rights, may now use GRI reporting to fulfill Global Compact participation expectations.
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Sir Peter Davis, the chairman of Business in the Community, launched of a new source of company information for City analysts, investors, consumers and other stakeholders.
The Impact on Society Reporting Website is a new online research tool for those interested in how businesses impact the communities in which they operate. For the first time, people are able to see a consistent framework for measuring, reporting and communicating business impacts.
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CEOs the world over are taking decisive actions to address the challenges of the global economy, become more transparent in the information shared with investors, and capitalise on the promise of the Internet — all the while maintaining focus on their companies’ corporate social responsibility. These are a few of the key findings from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ fifth annual Global CEO Survey, conducted in conjunction with the World Economic Forum. Results of the survey, which enjoyed record participation this year with 1,161 CEOs from 33 countries, were announced by Global CEO Sam DiPiazza at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York.
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SustainAbility is pleased to announce the launch of its latest report, Good News & Bad: The Media, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development.
The media is one of the most powerful, yet least trusted and least accountable institutions in the world. And it has a crucial role to play in the transition to sustainability. So SustainAbility decided to take a closer look. “No other industry,” the authors suggest, “will so powerfully influence how people and politicians think about (and act on) corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD).”
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January 2002 Update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
* First GRI Board of Directors Announced
* Measurement Working Group (MWG) Winds Down
* Revisions Working Group (RWG) Formed
* Verification Working Group (VWG) Update
* Taiwanese Companies Tackle Sustainability Reporting
* Asian Regional Conference: July 2002
* New Draft Articles of Incorporation Posted
* Remembering A True Friend of the Environment and of GRI
* REMINDER – Invitation to Register as an Individual Stakeholder
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Many leading firms want to be a force for good, both at home and overseas. The anti-globalization movement, as well as the events of September 11, have given added cause for businesses to look closely at the impression they make in foreign markets. But few of them know how to adapt their social programs to different cultures and expectations.
A new study shows that companies that develop a well-engineered international community involvement strategy, and are open and transparent in communicating what they do, not only make a positive social impact, but can head off potential misunderstandings of their motives. The study, Benchmarks for International Corporate Community Involvement, was recently released by The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and the British firm, ProbusBNW Limited.
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), convened to develop an internationally accepted framework for sustainability reporting for businesses and other organisations, announced today the appointment of fourteen members to its first Board of Directors. This announcement brings a year long independent board nomination process to a close, and positions GRI for its official inauguration as an independent international institution.
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As a follow-up to the Green Paper on CSR, the Commission is preparing a policy communication on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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The CSR and Standards Forum was created in August, 2001, following the May, 2001 meeting of ISO COPOLCO (Consumer Policy Committee) in Oslo, Norway.
The purpose of the Forum is to facilitate worldwide discussion of the
possible role of standards (i.e., standards developed through the formal
standards system, at the national and international level) to articulate and promote the concept of corporate social responsibility. The Forum is designed to provide a mechanism for increasing awareness and promoting constructive discussion of new and existing corporate social responsibility initiatives (be they developed through the standards systems or not), and their relevance to existing or potential standards projects. It is recognized that widespread private sector adherence to corporate social responsibility criteria is likely to be the result of a combination of approaches, including inter-governmental agreements, domestic legislative and regulatory techniques, standards developed through the formal standards system, voluntary codes, and education/information approaches.
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By a margin of 5:1, the British public believe that it is more important that companies should show a high degree of responsibility in difficult economic times, according to MORI’s annual general public survey on Corporate Social Responsibility.
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(Gepubliceerd in Het Financieele Dagblad van 17 december 2001).
Beleggersrelaties
De relatie tussen grote beleggers en de ondernemingen waarin ze beleggen is aan het veranderen.Ewen Cameron Watt beschrijft het veranderende landschap
Ewen Cameron Watt is mondiaal hoofd beleggingsstrategie en -onderzoek bij Merill Lynch Investment Managers.
Twintig jaar geleden werden jonge beurshandelaars vaak begroet met de instructie: ‘Er is geen vervanging voor inside information’. Hoewel de stelling grappig bedoeld was, school er toch veel waarheid in. Aandelenanalyse was gebaseerd op ‘geïnformeerde’ briefings aan de aan- en verkoopspecialisten. De term ‘beleggersrelaties’ betekende in veel markten letterlijk een familierelatie van beleggers met de grootaandeelhouder. Minderheidsaandeelhouders waren in alle opzichten in de minderheid.
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in the United Kingdom recently released their 2nd Annual Report, which is believed to be the world’s first sector-level report aligned with the GRI Guidelines.
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