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Category Archives: CSR Frameworks
Accounting for Nature: Opening Bells are Ringing
Last week the TEEB for Business coalition published “Natural Capital at Risk – The Top 100 Externalities of Business”, a report that among others identified coal-powered energy and cattle ranching as the most environmentally costly businesses. Its findings have clear implications … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Integrated Reporting, Natural capital, TEEB
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Thatcher’s inadvertent corporate responsibility legacy
[Originally published on Ethical Corporation.] The explosion in the private sector’s importance since the 1980s is why companies now need to take the lead on sustainability.
Posted in Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR Frameworks, Ethics, Governance, Implementation Solutions, Leadership, Strategy
Tagged Accountability, business ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Thatcher
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Why sector-based initiatives will take sustainability into the future
[Originally published in The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog.] CSR and sustainability departments of emerging market and mature market multinational companies face very similar and familiar challenges. Internally, these include difficulties convincing CEOs and CFOs of the business relevance of CSR. Externally, … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, business ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, CSR Strategy, GRI, Leadership, UNCTAD
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The ACCSR Conference on Responsible leadership – the summary
The ACCSR Conference on Responsible leadership – summarised on twitter. This year our 6th Annual Conference ‘The State of CSR’ explored the issue of leadership in an age of responsibility. Our speakers inspired and challenged us with endless ideas and hints … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR Frameworks, Governance, Implementation Solutions, Measurement & Evaluation, Strategy
Tagged ACCSR Confernce, business ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, CSR Strategy, Leadership, Responsible Business, Responsible leadership, Social Responsibility, Storify, Sustainable development, twitter, Value Creation
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CSR wears a shiny new suit
Mark Kramer’s recent visit to Melbourne has once again stirred welcome discussion on the role of business in society. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have by now read, or at least heard of, Kramer’s article in … Continue reading
The coming of age of Life Cycle Assessment?
[Originally published in The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog.] A recent international conference in France that I had the honour to chair provided a fascinating glimpse of how far Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) have come, and of their future potential. For many … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, LCA, Life Cycle Assessment, Standards
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Defining Report Content and Boundaries: Get Ready for G4: Second Bite
This is the second in our ‘Get Ready for G4’ series of posts in which we will help you to understand upcoming changes to the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. For those of you who didn’t get indigestion from my first … Continue reading
Get Ready for G4: One bite at a time
This is the first in our ‘Get Ready for G4’ series of posts in which we will help you to understand upcoming changes to the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. The Global Reporting Initiative’s recent release of the G4 Exposure Draft … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, G4, GRI, Materiality, Sustainability Reporting
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Stick the environment where it belongs – on the balance sheet
Last month at Rio+20, 37 chief executives of banks, investment funds and insurance companies signed up to a Natural Capital Declaration. The Declaration recognises the growing relationship between biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and water quality and availability as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged Natural capital, Responsible Business, Rio+20, UN Global Compact
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