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· The International Corporate Sustainability Reporting Site »dedicated to Corporate Sustainability / CSR and environmental reporting«
o »You can find actual news, a complete resource library (guidelines, tools, articles etcetera), an award gallery and more.« Also company reports.
o »This site has been started as The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site and has been launched in May 1997.«
o Managed by: Folkert van der Molen, The Netherlands
o Some sections of this site are only available to signed up users. Site sign up is available free of charge.
o CorporateRegister.com is a global directory of CSR related resources, incorporating:
§ CSR Report Directory - The world's largest online directory of company issued CSR, Sustainability, and Environment reports from around the world.
· The GRI Register
o This covers all reports from our main reports directory above, which follow the Global Reporting Initiative reporting guidelines
· The AA1000AS Register
o This covers all reports from our main reports directory above, which use AccountAbility AA1000 Assurance Standard
· The Global Compact Register
o This covers all reports from our main reports directory above, which include a Global Compact index
§ ReportingPartners Directory
· A free directory covering thousands of CSR reporting service providers (e.g. Consultants, Designers, Printers and Verifiers). This service is designed to assist report developers in finding companies to work on their next CSR report.
§ CSR News & Information
· We work with a number of news-issuing partners to provide our users with constantly updated, relevant information in a single location.
§ Research Services
· We extract additional information from the CSR reports we collect, which is not available on our website. We offer bespoke research services using this data.
o The site offers a range of additional services, statistics and links.
· GRI Global Reporting Initiative
o The GRI's vision is that reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance by all organizations becomes as routine and comparable as financial reporting. GRI accomplishes this vision by developing, continually improving, and building capacity around the use of its Sustainability Reporting Framework.
· ESRA The European Sustainability Reporting Association
o Our aim is to improve Sustainability Reporting by sharing trends and best practice across European countries.
o The European Sustainability Reporting Awards have been held since 1995. Winners from national awards schemes are entered into the scheme and an overall European winner selected by a panel of judges.
o In 2006, for the first time, the European participants are focusing on sharing European reporting developments and best practice from both country-specific and regional perspectives. This is (perhaps temporarily, ??) replacing the European Awards scheme and the ESRA acronym now stands for "European Sustainability Reporting Association", whose purpose is "to inspire and improve sustainability reporting in Europe by sharing developments of European countries".
o ESRA was formed by national accountancy bodies and is not a legally registered entity. Each accountancy body has appointed a member to represent it in ESRA.
· GreenBiz.com >
o Browse:
§ Marketing & Communications >
· Related Tags:
o Reporting (??) or Corporate Reporting (??)
o Search: »sustainability reporting«
· Ethical Corporation »Magazine, Conferences, Reports« >
o >??> Browse By Category >
· csr-reporting - thoughts and insights about social and environmental responsibility and sustainability reporting (Blog by Elaine Cohen)
· SustainabilityReport.net (By Fabian Pattberg)
o The purpose of this website is to be a source of information on the latest Sustainability, CSR, Sustainable Development Reports.
· Business & Human Rights Resource Centre >
o browse the online library >
§ All topics > Company policy/steps >
· Reporting > e.g.
o >
§ Tools & Guidance Portal >
· Eldis »sharing the best in development policy, practice and research« > e.g.
o Topics > Resource guides > Corporate responsibility > Frameworks and tools >
· IFAC International Federation of Accountants > e.g.
o Commitees:
§ International Center for Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) > e.g.
· Sustainability Framework (Updated 2010, February 2009)
· News
o PAIB eNews is an electronic communication issued three to four times per year.
§ Also »Topics Related to Sustainability«
o > e.g.
§ April 2009 (Special Issue on Sustainability)
§ This search engine has been developed by IFAC and its members to provide professional accountants in business, small and medium practitioners, and other accountants with access to global resources and information.
· UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development >>
o ISAR (Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting) >
§ >
· Just Published
§ Areas of Work >
· Corporate Responsibility Reporting
§ Publications >
· Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosure
· ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants > e.g.
o General public > Technical activities >
§ Subject areas >
§ Research programme >
· Published research >
§ Technical library >
o Archive of older publications
· ICAEW (UK) »The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales« > e.g.
o Technical & Business Topics >
§ Topics >
§ Thought leadership >
· Tomorrow’s Company (London, UK) >> e.g.
o forceforgood.com >
§ Issues:
· Tomorrow's Corporate Reporting (launched: July 2010)
o The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Tomorrow’s Company are setting up a global study on how to improve corporate reporting.
o … We intend to supplement the responses we get with a number of dialogues with stakeholders in London, New York, Paris, Brussels and Asia and look to produce a preliminary report by the end of the year so as to coincide with the work of the Accounting for Sustainability Group to lobby the G20 for the creation of a new International Integrated Reporting Committee to oversee the development of a new reporting model. …
· AccountAbility (London, New York, Washington D.C., Beijing, Sao Paulo) > e.g.
o AA1000 Series of Standards
§ The AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) 2008 is a leading international standard used to provide assurance on publicly available sustainability information, particularly CSR/Sustainability reports.
o >??>
§ Sustainability Assurance and Reporting
· SustainAbility > e.g.
o Consulting Services >
§ Engaging Stakeholders Program
o Research & Advocacy >
§ By Theme:
§ Research Programs and Projects:
o >>
§ Tags: Reporting
· HRH The Prince of Wales (UK) >>
o Accounting for Sustainability Project (launched in December 2006) >
§ Connected Reporting Framework
· IR Integrated Reporting
o This Web site and the integrated reporting movement is rooted in a spirit of collaboration that arose during a meeting of investors, standard setters, companies, accounting bodies, UN representatives and civil society at St. James’s Palace in London on September 11, 2009. This meeting was jointly convened by the Global Reporting Initiative and The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Initiative.
o See also
§ Related page at nfrcsr (Integrated reporting / Connected reporting)
§ LinkedIn >>
· Integrated Reporting Group
§ Wikipedia >>
§ Twitter: Search for: #integratedreporting
§ The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) >>
· Special Integrated Reporting page
§ Article at WFE - The World Federation of Exchanges: Integrated Reports Voluntary Filing (10 June 2010; By Robert G. Eccles and Mervyn King)
§ Press release at GRI: GRI announces its 2015 and 2020 goals and launches G3.1 public comment at first day of Amsterdam Global Conference (26 May 2010)
· During the Opening Plenary, GRI’s Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen outlined two goals for the next decade.
o … Secondly, GRI proposes that ESG reporting and financial reporting need to converge over the coming decade. GRI advocates that a standard for integrated reporting should be defined, tested and adopted by 2020. GRI is working with leading global organizations in financial markets, accounting, corporate responsibility, ESG reporting, and civil society to establish the International Integrated Reporting Committee.
§ See also:
· Blog post by Mike Krzus at Integrated Reporting Blog: Integrated reporting is an idea whose time has come (31 May 2010; By Mike Krzus) - … because a GRI conference—an event that at one time I never expected to attend—is the place where my doubts about integrated reporting were resolved. …
· Blog post by Elaine Cohen: The GRI Barmitzvah (29 May 2010) - The sold-out biennial GRI 2010 conference with 1,200 attendees from 77 countries ...
· Article at CorpGov.net: GRI Conference Report (28 May 2010; By James McRitchie / Marcy Murninghan)
§ Blog post at Harvard Business Review: The Annual Report as Sustainability's Secret Weapon (19 April 2010; By Robert G. Eccles)
§ Commentary at CSRwire: "One Report" - Is there a Transparency Panacea? (13 April 2010; By Elaine Cohen)
§ Related e-mail interview at HBS Working Knowledge: One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting (12 April 2010)
§ Related article by Robert Eccles at RI Responsible Investor: The quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of integrated financial and CSR reporting (30 March 2010)
§ Related article at Ethical Corporation: Opinion: The future of corporate responsibility and sustainability reporting: Integration (15 March 2010) - Integrated sustainability and financial reporting is an ethical obligation, argue Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
· CSEAR Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Director: Rob Gray)
· SAICA The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants >
o Technical Information >
§ Sustainability >
o >??>
§ SAICA has developed literature on Sustainability = Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (.pdf, September 2008, 309 pp.)
· Institute 4 Sustainability (Germany, Berlin; The founder: Thomas Loew)
o 4sustainability »offers research and consultancy in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability.«
o > also
§ English (International) version of website > e.g.
· Sustainability Reporting > e.g.
· Ranking der Nachhaltigkeitsberichte > also
o Informationen > also
§ Links
· SNEEP Studentisches Netzwerk für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik >
o Wirtschaftsethik >
§ Links >
· Non-financial Reporting (emphasis on Germany, also other; updated ??)
· econsense »Forum Nachaltige Entwicklung der Deutschen Wirtschaft« (Berlin, Germany; Partner of, e.g.: CSR Europe, WBCSD, BDI, UPJ; Also English version of website) > e.g.
o CSR Info Pool >
· Oekoweb »Österreichs zentrales Umweltportal« (Austria) >
o Nachhaltigkeitsbericht (updated ??)
· Duurzaamheidsverslaggeving (Belgium; Website by Commotie & BECO België)
· Europa >> European Commission >>
o Enterprise and Industry >
§ Policy highlights: Sustainable and responsible business >
· Corporate social responsibility >
§ Workshops on the disclosure of environmental, social and governance information (September 2009 - February 2010)
· See also
o Trucost: ESG disclosure rises up agenda in Europe (July 2010 – Newsletter – Issue 1) - … In his role as Trucost's Executive Chairman, Paul Druckman (ICAEW, FEE, A4S) provides insight into the latest developments.
§ ESG disclosure is likely to form an important part of a renewed EU Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, to be adopted in 2010/11.
· CSR Europe »The European business network for CSR« > e.g.
o Activities > e.g.
§ Information Services >
· Links > Search Links
o Select CSR Theme: Communications and Reporting
§ CSR Solutions > Search Solutions >
· Select CSR Theme: Communications and Reporting
o Membership > e.g.
§ National Partner Network > e.g.
o Select CSR Theme: Communications and Reporting
o News >
§ Search News >
· Select CSR Theme: Communications and Reporting
o Events >
§ Search Events (??) >
· Select CSR Theme: Communications and Reporting
· EABIS European Academy of Business in Society > e.g.
o Resources >
§ Links >
· General:
o EABIS-EFMD Business in Society Gateway >
§ Resources >
· Search Resources:
o Category:
· FEE (Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens; The European Federation of Accountants) >
o Our Work >
§ Sustainability = Sustainability Working Party (SWP) and Sustainability Policy Group (SPG)
· EEA European Environment Agency > e.g.
o About EEA > Networks >
§ EnviroWindows - EEA platform for knowledge sharing and development >
· Industry >
o Corporate Sustainable Reporting (updated ??)
· >>
o Information access tools >
§ Sustainable Development Online > e.g.
· Tools (e.g. search for »reporting«)
· reportingrse.org (Project sponsor: ORSE - Observatoire de la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises, France; Website launched in April 2010)
o Also English version of website (= reportingcsr.org)
· Ceres »Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity« (Boston, USA) > e.g.
o What We Do >
· From the founding of the Global Reporting Initiative in 1997, to the creation of the facility reporting pilot project, to honoring companies through the Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting awards, Ceres has been at the forefront in stakeholder engagement and corporate sustainability reporting.
· AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (USA) > e.g.
o Business, Industry & Government >
§ Quick links:
· Sustainability >
§ … While many large companies issue separate, or stand-alone sustainability reports, the trend is in the direction of integrated or connected reporting.
· RAAS Consulting Ltd (Richard Anderson, Daniel Roberts) »Risk Management, Sustainability, XBRL and Innovation« >
o Random Commentary = Random Comments (Blog by Daniel Roberts)
· University of Washington (Seattle, USA) >> PoE Program on the Environment >
o News, Events & Resources > Sustainability Gateway > e.g.
§ Sustainable Campus »Sustainability reports, policies, and initiatives at various universities. Includes links to campus assessment toolkits.« (USA)
§ Corporate Sustainability »Regional corporate sustainability reports and policies. Resource links.«
§ Government Sustainability »Regional government sustainability reports and policies.«
§ Non-profit Sustainability »Regional sustainability resources.«
o Sustainability Reporting Resources »Links to reporting standards, templates and best practices resources and reporting models.« (Standards, General, Higher Education)
· YCELP Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) >>
o Empresa Informa Forum (Project led by Monica Araya; Updated ??)
§ »Site promotes good practice in sustainability reporting among the producers, users, and analysts of the environmental and social reports in Latin America.«
§ > e.g.
o Guidelines, Organizations, Surveys and Analysis, Spanish Documents, Useful Articles for Practioners
· Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (Brazil) > e.g.
o Aprenda Mais >
§ Ferramentas de Gestão
· Também incentivam a transparência e promovem a aprendizagem. São oito as ferramentas básicas:
§ Publicações > e.g.
· Ferramentas de Gestão:
o Indicadores Ethos (Also: en español & in English)
o Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
o Elaboração de Balanço Social
· Documentos
§ Centro de Apoio a Pesquisa >
· Temas >
· SUS-FJ Sustainability Forum Japan is an NGO representing GRI activities in Japan, with an enthusiastic staff to prevail the mission of corporate social responsibility.
· SynTao – Sustainability Solutions »is a Beijing based organization that aims to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China.« > e.g.
o English > e.g.
· Browse Reports by:
o Sector, Company, Publication Date, Region
o References:
§ Report Guideline
§ Assessment
§ Certification Standards
§ Research
§ Links
· >
o China Sustainability Reporting Resource Center (Also at SustainabilityReport.cn)
§ (Old website ??):
· Company >
o Reporting (news about new reports)
· >>
· NCSR National Center for Sustainability Reporting (Jakarta, Indonesia; Or here)
o NCSR has been declared on June 23, 2005 by 5 (five) major independent organizations which are the Indonesian Management Accountants Institute (IAMI / prev. IAI-KAM), the Indonesian-Netherlands Association (INA), National Committee on Governance (KNKG), Forum for Corporate Governance in Indonesia (FCGI) and the Public Listed Companies Association (AEI).
o »The Gateway for Sustainable Business, Cleaner Production, and Pollution Prevention« (The site is produced by Burton Hamner)
o > e.g.
§ Directory >
· Tools >
o Public Reporting of Sustainability Performance (links with descriptions)
§ CD ROM Library with more than 500 of the best non-copyright publications on how to manage and promote sustainable business, with a focus on operations management. Each resource is described. > e.g.
· EL Environmental Leader »Energy & Environmental News for Business« (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) > e.g.
o All Topics >
· SRI World Group >
o OneReport »The Sustainability Reporting Network«
§ This global electronic reporting network enables companies to systematically collect and manage their social, environmental, economic, and governance data and distribute this data to research and rating agencies, the financial community, and other stakeholders.
§ In addition to reporting to research and rating agencies, OneReport can be used to create reports based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines.
o SocialFunds.com >
§ News >
· By category > Reporting
· CSRwire »The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire« > e.g.
o CSR Directory > e.g.
§ Search Category:
· Accountability and Monitoring Orgs
· Corporate Reporting Orgs, Firms and Resources
· GRI Global Reporting Initiative > e.g.
o About GRI > e.g.
§ Join GRI / OS > e.g.
· Search current OS (Organizational Stakeholders)
o Search by:
§ Organization Name
§ Country
§ Sector
§ Constituency
· Wikipedia >> e.g.
· WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development > e.g.
o Focus Areas > Business Role >
§ Overview > Previous work >
· Accountability & Reporting (till 2006)
· Google >> e.g.
o Directory > e.g.
§ Society >
· Issues >
o Business > e.g.
§ Business > e.g.
· Investing >
· Management >
o Ethics
§ Search might be useful
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