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Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... themselves against core international standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact pillars, as well as giving suppliers guidance in areas of weakness. For buyers, the platform will provide more information to ...

GRI, UN Global Compact, WBSCD to collaborate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will collaborate to drive private sector contribution to sustainable development goals. Ernst Ligteringen, GRI chief ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Companies that have signed the United Nations Global Compact are making commitments in keeping with the sustainability initiative's principles, but implementation, measurement, and communication all lag behind, the initiative reports. Companies are ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... and harmonization with other important global frameworks, including the OECD MNE Guidelines, the United Nations Global Compact Principles, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. G4 also removed the ranking system that evaluated the ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and harmonization with other important global frameworks, including the OECD MNE Guidelines, the United Nations Global Compact Principles, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. G4 is the product of two years of stakeholder consultation ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... cited alignment with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and only 7% cited alignment with the United Nations Global Compact. The United Nation's 2008 Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework did not feature at all among company reporting and policies ...

Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... number of candidates promoted within the year of commencement." Woolworths is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, under which participants enact a set of principles around the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... as the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in 2012, and in other programmes by organizations such as the United Nations Global Compact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the United Nations Environment Programme. The MoU was signed ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank has filed its first annual report to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) since becoming a signatory in 2010. The UNGC is a voluntary business initiative in which signatories commit to aligning their operations and strategies with 10 human ...
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