SAP is a company that makes its living providing information tools for businesses to better understand their business through quantitative reporting (including sustainability reporting) and enterprise resource planning software. Hence, one would expect their Annual Sustainability Report to be a highly readable and information-rich document, which is exactly what it is.

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A new study by the BrownFlynn team sheds light on the effects of A-level GRI reporting.

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While at the GreenBiz12 Forum in New York earlier this week, I got a sneak preview of the findings of the new Ernst & Young and GreenBiz Group survey of trends in sustainability reporting.

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From the development of new urban mobility technologies, waste diversion to a commitment to greener cars, the new GM going forward is a new company as its CSR report reveals.

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Avon’s CSR report, released earlier this week, touts a bevy of achievements and promises to address issues including deforestation, governance and philanthropy.

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When you think about it, with all the progress that had been made with stakeholder engagement, we still know very little about the people behind the corporations. With few rare exceptions, such as Timberland, the best we get is usually a twitter account run by the CEO and maybe a blog managed by the company’s [...]

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Woolworths Limited, Australia’s largest retailer, (once upon a time an American icon too) reports that it is making “continued progress” in reducing emissions and in sustainable sourcing policies for palm oil, timber and paper, and seafood. The company issued its 2011 corporate responsibility report in late November with the basic theme that it is getting [...]

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Having endured a painful restructuring, Chrysler Group LLC is on the path towards recovery, and released its first ever sustainability report last week.

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For the first time, I had the opportunity to attend the                                                                                   Corporate Responsibility magazine’s [...]

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The title of Chief Sustainability Officer is a relatively new one—the first CSO of a publicly traded company, Linda Fisher of DuPont, was appointed in 2004. It was two more years until Ed Fox became CSO at Pinnacle West in 2006. Out of roughly 7,000 publicly traded companies found on NYSE or NASDAQ, only 29 [...]

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As a continuation of last week’s posting, “Using GRI to Compare Apples to Apples in Sustainability Reporting”, we intend to describe the approach demonstrated during the ISOS Group GRI Certified Sustainability Reporting courses to distinguishing quality reports from those that would probably be best served as marketing pieces.

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Johnson Controls recently made headlines with an energy efficiency upgrade of the iconic Empire State Building, and it has just announced an equally ambitious foray into the field of electric vehicles. The company has opened the largest advanced energy storage research and development center in North America. The new project, funded partly by a $299 [...]

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The GRI’s fourth revision the G4 framework is due for release in 2013 and it has brought on board 10 companies in an exercise on stakeholder engagement to launch the Global G4 Consortium to guide its development.

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3BL Media and CorporateRegister.com together produced a video that introduces Coca-Cola Enterprise’s latest CSR report, which is an example of how the nature of CSR reporting has evolved.

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The GRI has since evolved and grown, beginning as a division of CERES before establishing itself as an independent entity in 2001. The GRI reporting guidelines have gone through three iterations, with the fourth currently in development. While the GRI reporting framework is primarily a tool for producing a sustainability report, the process itself is just that – a process. More specifically, it is a management process.

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The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on over 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. 3p readers get 40% off CSRHub’s professional subscriptions with promo code “TP40“. This is the final post in a 3-part series [...]

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3p correspondent Leon Kaye recently interviewed Eric Ricuarte, principal of Greenview LLC, a sustainability consultancy that focuses on the hospitality industry.

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Ed note: Interested in learning more about how to embed stakeholder engagement in your company’s sustainability reporting? Consider getting a certification in GRI sustainability reporting from our partners at ISOS Consulting. Meet the 3p team at the SF training October 17th-18th. Sign up soon! Stakeholder engagement is the thorn in the side of many a [...]

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With 15 months to go before the 2012 Olympics begin in London, the mega-event’s organizers have the goal of emerging as the most socially and environmentally responsible Olympiad ever.

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Gaia Metrics believes it has a solution for CSR report compilation. The Massachusetts-based company released its CSR Quickstart tool, which promises to drastically reduce the time required to build a report while slashing the costs by 90%.

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Disney’s 2010 Corporate Citizenship report is a frank discussion of the challenges Disney faces on environmental social, and governance issues. Today’s assessment of this exhaustive report is more on the social and environmental fronts, and reveals the balance Disney has to maintain between running a public company accountable to its shareholders and an organization that works on achieving more for the public good.

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By: Janet DeDonato, CEO and Founding Partner, Methodologie Is your company ready for the Global Reporting Initiative? If not, it’s time to at least be thinking about it. As the most widely used global sustainability reporting framework, the GRI is now becoming the accepted standard for U.S. companies as well. Having a standard reporting framework [...]

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Recently Ceres concluded that while large companies that register with the SEC have overall improved their climate change risk disclosures in recent years, more work needs to be done. Most public companies are still very vague about risks associate with climate change, despite the SEC’s directive issued last year.

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The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) relevance has surged the past few years. The Amsterdam-based organization’s guidelines for corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has become the standard. In fact, Triple Pundit believes its leadership makes it the new LEED. While companies around the globe have embraced CSR reports as a way to demonstrate transparency and articulate [...]

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Monsanto, known and sometimes criticized for their role in the proliferation of genetically modified crops in the US and the world, has released their 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. The company, accused by some as “poisoning the world’s food supply,” monopolizing the seed market and even contributing to rural suicides in India, is lauding their sustainability efforts. [...]

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In a previous post, we described the trove of corporate social responsibility (CSR) data that is available from finance-related researchers. One of the main places these firms get their data is from company-written CSR reports. Corporate Register offers links to more than 6,000 of these reports—from all types of companies and organizations.

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Sustainability reporting has become de rigeur among thousands of companies as well as a majority of the Global Fortune 250, but now even academic institutions are beginning to follow suit and issue their own non-financial reports. Earlier this week, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announced the release of its third University Sustainability Report  prepared in accordance with [...]

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This is the first of two posts on serious gaming and corporate social responsibility. Part 2: Games that Can Change the World. Are you a Farmville addict?  Does your son spend hours playing World of Warcraft? While you and millions of others play on-line games to have fun, an increasing number of business leaders, government officials and [...]

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Dubbed the “Focal Point USA,” GRI’s new office will help increase the number of US-based companies that disclose ESG data to its shareholders. GRI’s New York staff will make it more seamless for companies to improve the quality of their corporate social responsibility reports, as well as offering American corporations an opportunity to have input on the development of new guidelines for sustainability reporting.

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On August 2, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), joined forces in advocating for integrated reporting. The International Integrated Reporting Committee, or IIRC, is tasking itself with creating a globally accepted framework for bringing together financial, social, environmental, and governance information.

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