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GRI promotes investor-business dialogue on ESG topics: new discussion paper available

GRI is presenting a new paper, A Closer Look at Water and GHG Emissions Disclosure, that looks into three areas of sustainability reporting:  Investor expectations, investor perception and reporting practice.  ​Climate change is one of, if not the most, pressing issues of our time. Action from the private sector, the largest source of global greenhouse gas

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New report looks at benefits of ‘Integrated Reporting in Turkey’

A new report, ‘Integrated Reporting in Turkey’,  carried out in cooperation with the Center for Finance Corporate Governance and Sustainability, ACCA and KPMG Turkey has been published. The report aims to reveal perspectives of the Turkish business world through the lens of integrated reporting, the current corporate reporting practices, and the future expectations and orientations of the

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CSR Europe fosters Investor Engagement & Non-Financial Disclosure

In 2018, under the Management and Transparency Learning Network, CSR Europe organised two working groups on non-financial reporting and investor engagement, promoting the integration of sustainability in management systems and reporting practices. Following direct engagement with members on current trends (Directive 2014/95/EU and EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan), CSR Europe launched the two working groups to guide companies towards more integrated and

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New ISO International Standard for human capital reporting

An organization is only as good as its people – which is why the workforce of a company is often one of its largest costs. But measuring the true return on that investment can be a tricky business. It just got a lot easier with the first International Standard for human capital reporting. It is well

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Why integrated reporting suits our investment philosophy

Dr Roland Rott, Head of ESG at La Française Asset Management, shares his insights into why La Française has signed the IIRC’s investor statement signalling its support for integrated reporting We are delighted to sign the Investor Statement of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in support for integrated reporting. By doing so we want

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CSE Research Links Financial and Corporate Sustainability (ESG) Performance

CSE’s 3rd annual report finds AI and Blockchain growing nearly as quickly as UN SDGs in Sustainability Reporting The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announces its third annual report on Sustainability (ESG) Reporting Trends: North America 2018. This research provides a useful and convenient representation of the current state of Sustainability Reporting. It focuses on

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AccountAbility collaborates with leading global companies on the AA1000 Principles pilot

AccountAbility announced their collaboration, with a select group of premier global companies, on an exciting new pilot project following the release of the AA1000 Accountability Principles (AA1000AP, 2018). The purpose of the newly released AA1000AP (2018) is to provide organisations with an established set of internationally accepted guiding principles to structure and manage the way

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New GRI draft Standard on Tax and Payments to Governments now open for public comment

​ ​Public information on tax and payments to governments by companies is often difficult to find and understand. But there has been a growing call for tax transparency around the world. Stakeholders including investors, governments, civil society organizations, media, and the public, are asking for more corporate reporting on tax. To respond to this call

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New Research: SDG Targets & GRI Indicators Materiality in ESG/Sustainability Reporting Released by G&A Institute

Governance & Accountability Institute today announces the release of its year-long, comprehensive «Sector Study on Sustainability Materiality of the SDG Targets & GRI Indicators.»  This research project was designed to examine sector trends in the ESG materiality decisions of 1,387 GRI reporters across 40 sectors on each of the 91 GRI G4 Specific Standard Disclosure

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How to Implement the TCFD Recommendations

For sustainability practitioners, the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) remove a pain point by establishing a single vocabulary of climate risks and opportunities and harmonizing the landscape of climate reporting. The recommendations are gaining steam: The September 2018 TCFD status report showed they now have support from 513 organizations (including 457 companies). However, it