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The Race to Rank: The Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders Unveiled

By Elaine_Cohen on September 21, 2010 2 Comments BeyondBusiness, CRD Analytics, CSRwire.com, Elaine Cohen, ESG performance, FESG, G1000, Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders, GRI G3 indicators, JustMeans, Martin Smith, Michael Muyot, MSCI World Index, Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index, Smartview, sustainability performance

The Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leader Ranking was made public for the first time on 15th September 2010. This is the most credible and authoritative sustainability performance ranking available and is an unparalleled tool for ESG-minded investors.

How Sustainability Reporting Can Help To Improve Your Bottomline

By Aysu Katun on May 17, 2010 4 Comments benefits, Bottomline, continuous improvement, CSR reporting, Deloitte, economic performance, environmental, increased transparency, Key Performance Indicators, reputation-building, risk management, social, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders, sustainability measurement, sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Reporting System, third party verification, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Increasingly more companies are starting to publish sustainability reports. Sustainability reporting as a management tool for businesses can have significant benefits.

The Infinite Possibilities of Online Sustainability Reporting

By Elaine_Cohen on February 3, 2010 Comments Off on The Infinite Possibilities of Online Sustainability Reporting Adidas, Alcoa, AltaTerra Research, BASF, Bayer, Beiersdorf, BMW, BT, Centrica, cisco, CSR, Deutsche Bank, DIY report builders, FedEx, Gap, Greening the Company Website: A new Era in Sustainability Reporting, Intel, Kingfisher, metrics, Nexxar.com, Online sustainability reporting, Philips, Radley Yeldar, Royal Dutch Shell, SeventhGeneration, sustainability performance, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Timberland, TNT, Transparency Inde, Unilever, Vodafone, Voices of Challenge

Elaine Cohen explores the changes that are taking place in sustainability report and makes an assessment on the implications of those changes on organization sustainability. She provides a list of characteristics of what she thinks are needed in an effective online sustainability report that is transparent, engages the reader, and opens up a dialogue.

How Leading Companies are Pioneering Innovation in Carbon, Water and Waste

By Abhijit Khanna on December 13, 2009 2 Comments Abhijit Khanna, AquaSciences, AT Kearney group, BASF, biomimicry, business sustainability, Calera Corporation, Carbon, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon footprint, CEO Water Mandate, Chicago Climate Exchange, Climate Change, climate change risk management. Mandatory reporting, climate risks, Coca-Cola, compliance, corporate sustainability, corporate water strategy, CorporateRegister, creative destruction, desalinization, DJSI, Dole, Domani Consulting, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, DuPont, e-waste, ecoefficiency, Ecopatent Commons, environmental, environmental performance, Environmental Protection Agency, Global e-Sustainability initiative, Global Reporting Initiative, green innovation, Green Policies, green products, Green Rankings, green rankings. KLD, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Hewlett-Packard, innovation, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons, Interfaceflor, LEAN manufacturing, Levi Strauss and Company, life straw, NanoH20, nanotechnology, Nestle, NIKE, Nike Trash Talk, Patagonia, PepsiCo, reputation, reverse osmosis, risk management, risk management practices, SAB Miller, SB Boot Camp, Serious Materials, social performance, Sprint, Subaru, supply chain, sustainability consulting, sustainability performance, Sustainable Brands Boot Camp, Sustainable Life Media, Tennant, Trucost.Green Score, Vestergaard Fransden, Wal-Mart, waste, Water, Water Disclosure Project, water footprint, Water Footprint Network, water management companies, water neutraility, water neutrality, water utilized upstream, water-resource management, Waxman-Markey Kerry Boxer, Will Sarni, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Xerox, zero-waste

A summary of the second webinar in the Sustainable Brands Boot Camp series, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons: Climate Change, Water & Waste. The webinar was led by Will Sarni, CEO and founder of Domani Consulting, an integrated sustainability consulting firm, and featured examples of new, innovative business and product strategies from various markets that are successfully being brought to market in response to emerging environmental and social strains.

Call for Submissions: Ceres-ACCA 2009 Sustainability Reporting Awards

By Tracey de Morsella on September 15, 2009 Comments Off on Call for Submissions: Ceres-ACCA 2009 Sustainability Reporting Awards ACCA, annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Ball Corporation, Best First Time Reporting Award, Ceres, Commendation for Emerging Issues Reporting, Commendation for Innovative Reporting, corporate sustainability performance, Dell, disclosure, environmental, environmental impacts, environmental performance, General Electric, investor, Mindy Lubber, Paul Costello, Seventh Generation, shareholders, SME, social impacts, social performance, stakeholders, sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, sustainability reports, sustainable reporting, Symantec, transparent disclosure, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Ceres, a US coalition of environmental and investor groups, today called for submissions to the ninth-annual Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting. The purpose of the awards program is to acknowledge and publicize best practice in reporting on sustainability, environmental and social performance by corporations and organizations and to provide leadership to those companies that are publishing or intend to publish sustainability reports.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Has Increased Dramatically

By Tracey de Morsella on August 11, 2009 4 Comments Africa, Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, environmental performance, Ernst Ligteringen, Europe, G3 Guidelines, Germany, Global Reporting Initiative, greenhouse gas emissions, GRI, Italy, Japan, Latin America, North America, Oceania, public disclosure, social performance, South Africa, Spain, sustainability crisis, sustainability indicators, sustainability performance, sustainability reports, UK, United States, USA

New figures released recently show that the number of companies and other organizations publicly disclosing their performance against a range of key sustainability indicators has risen markedly over the last year. The Global Reporting Initiative is now tracking of over 1000 organizations worldwide who issued sustainability reports based on the GRI G3 Guidelines in 2008 – the highest number ever recorded. The figure represents an increase of 46 per cent on the 2007 figure of 685.