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Tag Archives: GRI
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
Posted in Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR Frameworks, Ethics, Governance, Social Impacts, Strategy, Sustainable Consumption
Tagged Accountability, business ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, CSR Strategy, GRI, Leadership, UNCTAD
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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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Addressing the Challenge of Materiality – More than just Compliance
Originally published at: www.accountancysa.org.za The concept of ‘materiality’ is fundamental to corporate reporting practice. To be effective, an annual report should provide information that is of value – or ‘material’ interest – to the intended users of the report. While … Continue reading
Sustainability reporting: immediate choices for the future
Originally published in The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog. Two recent developments in the Rio+20 context will help prompt welcome – and overdue – attention to the crucial role that corporate reporting can play in promoting progress towards sustainable development. The … Continue reading
Corporate Cultural Responsibility
As suggested in my previous blog From Social to Cultural Responsibility, I advocate increased cultural sensitivity and protection by organisations operating in close proximity to indigenous or culturally non-westernised populations. Therefore, I decided to look at how the world’s most … Continue reading
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Is integrated reporting the logical progression for sustainability reporting?
The fourth genus of the ever evolving GRI reporting framework is now in the first public comment stage of its conception. This stage is crucial for the framework to maintain its credo of multi-stakeholder consensus based actualisation. It seems the … Continue reading
Are we there yet? Report card on CSR in Australia
By Dr Leeora Black, Managing Director, ACCSR. I recently had the privilege of participating in a discussion about the contribution of the Responsible Business Project to the advancement of business practice in Australia. It made me think about how far … Continue reading