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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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.

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Trust: A capital idea in the Libor fall-out

Trust lay at the centre of Adam Smith’s vision for a free market. “Every man (and woman) lives by exchanging,” Smith observed. And trust – in one-another, in our financial institutions and our governments – is vital to the exchange … Continue reading

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