Survey Shows Most US Firms Currently Lack Formal Strategies and Processes to Fulfill Sustainability Commitments

While a majority of North American firms in the survey (almost 60 percent) have a documented corporate-level sustainability strategy, just over one-third (36 percent) have adopted a formal sustainability strategy for the supply management organization-a crucial step in ultimately being able to deliver on their sustainability promises. ... lees meer

How to Determine the Top 100 Sustainable Companies in the World

By by Bill Baue, Institutionalshareowner.com The ” Big Debate,” an interactive dialogue amongst 600 attendees of this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland on questions like the economic emergence of China and India, identified sustainability as the key issue requiring creative responses. One such response came today from Corporate Knights, a Canadian magazine on corporate social responsibility (CSR), and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a socially responsible investing (SRI) research firm, who announced the Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies in Davos. ... lees meer

AccountAbility Proposes Robust -Materiality’ for Social and Environmental Disclosure

AccountAbility, the leading professional body promoting accountability standards for sustainable development, today releases its report, -Redefining Materiality: Practice and Public Policy for Effective Corporate Reporting’. Redefining Materiality proposes a new approach to defining -materiality’ in corporate reporting. It is particularly relevant to the UK Government’s proposed amendments to Company Law. These amendments will require companies to disclose within an Operating and Financial Review (OFR) social and environmental performance relevant to members’ interests arising from stakeholder concerns and actions. ... lees meer