Resource Listings

This report presents the findings and analysis from the first GRI Readers’ Choice survey of readers of sustainability reports. In the years since the advent of sustainability reporting, many surveys and research exercises have attempted to establish opinions and consensus on what comprises quality reporting. But very little attention has been focused on the readers of these reports: Who are they? What do they think of reports? What do they use reports for?

Providing best practice examples from companies around the world, One Report shows how integrated reporting adds tremendous value to the company and all of its stakeholders, including shareholders, and also ultimately contributes to a sustainable society.

On the heels of last year's failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen, more companies worldwide are attempting to advance national and international policies around climate change. This report offers the first concrete guidelines on how business can communicate to customers, investors, and the public on these climate policy engagement efforts.

The United Nations Global Compact and the Rainforest Alliance brought together leading companies operating under sustainability certification systems in several markets to develop and test a methodology that companies can use internally to analyze their investments in sustainability and for external reporting purposes. The metrics address both tangible and intangible values created through certification in an attempt to capture the full financial impact of certification.

This blog by Elaine Cohen provides thoughts and insights about social and environmental responsibility and sustainability reporting

The guidance explains how businesses and organisations can measure and report their GHG emissions as well as set targets to reduce them. The guidance is aimed at all sizes of business as well as public and third sector organisations.

This report focuses on corporate transparency on environmental risks, and lays the groundwork for understanding environmental disclosure and reporting issues in emerging markets through an investor lens.

The purpose of this report is to help investors and companies understand how companies in vulnerable sectors are evaluating, managing, and disclosing water risks in their operations, supply chains, and products.

 

This Economist Intelligence Unit report discusses why firms are embracing sustainable practices, how companies are embedding corporate social responsibility into their businesses, and how they are gauging and reporting their success.

 

This study explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) by conducting a cross-cultural analysis of communication of CSR activities in a total of 16 U.S. and European corporations.