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Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... framework for organizations, particularly those who have not previously reported." G4 can be used in standalone sustainability reports, but also can be used to generate material sustainability information for inclusion in integrated reports. Other enhancements ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... GRI's deputy chief executive, in a statement. "While 95% of the world's largest companies are producing sustainability reports, overall less than 10% of publicly traded companies, and companies that do business across national borders, report on their ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... 2012, which sounds good. What is going on? The problems are with the relativities, which are the core of sustainability reports. That Woolworths is 16.5% below its projected emissions sounds good, until we discover that the projections were made in 2006 ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... that and think about what other services we might offer." See Also: One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
CPA Australia has published a guide designed to accountants' capacity to provide assurance on sustainability reports for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Amir Ghandar The report, A Guide for Assurance on SME Sustainability Reports, is a practitioners' ...

One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... putting Australia in at number nine on a list of 20 countries. Spain had the highest percentage of assured sustainability reports, at 39%, while the United States was at the bottom, with 5% of reports externally reported. The relatively low percentage ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Stakeholders are asking for more transparency from sustainability reports, particularly around governance issues, according to research from the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Reporting (ACCSR). Leeora Black ACCSR has issued a report, Materiality ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainability reports provide external parties such as investors the opportunity to assess a company's performance to long term goals, and provides stakeholders with an opportunity to engage with the process of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies to report sustainability through on channel rather than two or three. There were 51 standalone sustainability reports in 2012, down from 57 in 2011. Of that, 33 were structured to the GRI and 24 were announced to the ASX, the report found. ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... impacts on the economy, environment and society, as well as the positive ones, with stakeholders who read sustainability reports telling the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) that they feel "anger, anxiety or concern" when ...