The GRI Readers Award 2010
February 19, 2010 by admin
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The Global Reporting initiative (GRI) have this week re-launched the 2010 sustainability reporting awards in a simpler, more user friendly format. Voting is now easy and quick, allowing everyone to easily shape the future of sustainability reporting.
The GRI’s Readers’ and Reporters’ Awards will now be open until the 3 March 2010. For the first year, readers and reporters can vote. They offer a unique opportunity to have your say and change the future of sustainability reporting.
GRI provides the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework. Sustainability reporting is now standard practice for many leading businesses. The number of sustainability reports being produced is at a record high. GRI is now aware of over 1280 reports published in 2009 representing an increase of 17% on 2008 figures.
For the first time, the GRI’s Readers’ and Reporters’ survey report will show whether reports really meet the needs of their target audiences, and more importantly, whether these reports actually change people’s views and behaviour.
Wim Bartels, Partner at KPMG Sustainability Netherlands said:
We believe that the combination of the Readers’ Survey and the Reporters’ Survey this time around will give us valuable insights about the information readers really want. We will analyze the two perspectives in order help organizations provide readers with the information they need and want.
Helen Spoor, Consultant at the Readers’ Choice Awards Content Partner organization Futerra said:
Trust is at an all time low. By showing both sides of the story, we’re being completely transparent. Results could show a real disconnect between reporters and readers, providing the opportunity to dramatically change sustainability reporting in the future.
The awards and survey results will be announced at the 2010 Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, to be held on 26 – 28 May 2010.
To take part in the survey as a reader or reporter, click here. Click here for further information on the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency.
New Anti-Corruption Reporting Guidance
December 11, 2009 by admin
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Transparency International (TI) and the United Nations Global Compact has released reporting guidance for business committed to combating corruption. The guidance, developed in the framework of the Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative, aims to equip companies with the means to report on anti-corruption policies and actions comprehensively and effectively. Read more
The International CSR Summit in Singapore
By Amanda Coffin
Singapore Compact hosted its inaugural International CSR Summit at the Orchard Hotel, 6 to 7 October 2009. A participant in the UN Global Compact, this non-profit society strives to promote “greater awareness, best practices, sustainable development and excellence towards CSR in Singapore.” Two hundred and forty companies now comprise the group’s membership. The conference displayed classic Singaporean efficiency in its planning and execution, yet it was not without contention and levity.
More Than 1,000 Companies Delisted From Global Compact
The UN Global Compact has delisted 1,005 companies since 2008 for repeated failure to meet the UN Global Compact’s mandatory annual reporting requirement, also known as the Communication on Progress (COP) policy. As part of the announcement, the Global Compact Office also released a full listing of the 1,005 companies delisted as at 6 October. Read more
The Corporate Social Responsibility & Governance Conference 2009
By Chironjit Das
The Corporate Social Responsibility & Governance Conference 2009 was held at Crown Plaza Mutiara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 11 and 12 March 2009. Some progress has been made in Malaysia in terms of incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in businesses through the government granting tax incentives, the setting up of Putrajaya Committee for GLC Transformation, and CSR reporting requirements for public listed companies (PLCs).
Themed “International CSR strategies & Solutions for Directors and Managers”, the twelve speakers addressed the many aspects of CSR and why CSR can help solve society’s problems. Read more
The UN Global Compact
June 30, 2009 by admin
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More and more businesses are taking an interest in operating on sustainable principles. To help them, the United Nations has put together the UN Global Compact, a strategic policy initiative. The compact is meant for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
The UN Global Compact primary objectives are to:
- mainstream the ten principles in business activities around the world
- catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
If Wishes Were Horses, The Membership of The Global Compact In India would Scale 1000
By Suresh Kr Pramar
R.S. Sharma, CMD ONGC and President, Global Compact Society India, speaking to the media at the end of the recent National Convention of the GCSI, boasted that the UNGC will have a membership of 1,000 members soon. Sharma knows, and so do most members of the Society, that he was playing to the gallery.
“Now, we have 238 corporates in our fold. Our vision is to attract at least 1,000 large corporates by 2015 to join this largest corporate citizenship campaign in the world,” he had said.
Sharma has been making such claims, without quoting the figures, ever since he took over as the President of the Society about four years ago. During this period there has been steady erosion, not additions, to the membership of the society. His tenure so far is marked more by failure than concrete achievements. In fact, the hold of the present coterie is detrimental to the health of the society, a fact that even the UNGC headquarter is well aware of. Read more
