2010 GRI Report List for Canada and USA Grows from 56 to 87 since July 2010
Since end of July 2010, 29 sustainability reports were added to list of GRI-type reports for USA and Canada (contains sector, application level/type and links) taking the total from 56 to now 87 reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Chuckles courtesy of Scotiabank and CBSR
Paging through Scotiabank’s C-Level Sustainability report, two somewhat misleading lines in the CEO Letter (!) about assurance by CBSR caught my attention and made be chuckle – TGIF! Read the rest of this entry »
Expanding List of Sustainability Reports in US and Canada
Last Update: 29 Aug 2010 — This blog entry contains a (growing) list of sustainability reports which were found missing in GRI’s global database. Report which do not include, at a minimum, a GRI Index are not included in the list. Please continue to add report links as a comment to this blog entry or send via e-mail to mehrdad@prizmasolutions.com so that we can jointly help GRI improve its database of sustainability reports. The updated GRI Report list for USA and Canada is available here. Prizma is a Data Partner for GRI in North America. Read the rest of this entry »
Improving GRI Report Inventory for USA and Canada
Today, GRI concluded an agreement with Prizma to jointly collect and share sustainability reports published in the US and Canada. The aim of this partnership is to improve publicly available inventories of GRI reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Octopus Paul Predicts More Canadian Mining Sustainability Reports
Officially retired from predicting world cup soccer games, Octopus Paul now expects proliferation of first-time sustainability reporting amongst Canadian listed mining companies. Will Paul be right again? Read the rest of this entry »
GRI Sector Supplement Indicators Count Towards Application Level Declaration
Regardles if you like or dread GRI’s Application Level declaration requirements, you will be interested to note that a portion of Performance Indicators in finalized Sector Supplements can now be counted towards B and C Level reporting. Read the rest of this entry »
Non-financial/sustainability reporting in the Ukraine
On behalf of the Global Compact network in Ukraine, CSR Ukraine Community reviewed the state of practice of non-financial reporting in the Ukraine. Read the rest of this entry »
Does Australian/ASX 200 sustainability reporting practice show weakness of ACSI or glass ceiling of GRI?
Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) 2010 Study shows that the majority of companies on the Australian S&P/ASX200 stock index are yet to provide sufficient sustainability risks reporting, and an overall 5% decline in reporting practice. Are ACSI and GRI – and the rest of us – partly to blame for this outcome? Read the rest of this entry »
GRI Application Level skipped by 25% of reporters – Why?
Why do 25% of sustainability reporters NOT declare their GRI Application Level (A, B, C with or without ‘+’)? Curious about this statistic, I dug deeper to find which countries and brands are the main culprits. Read the rest of this entry »
Prizma publishes Summer 2010 Newsletter
Headlines: (i) Prizma Expands Sustainability Reporting Services; (ii) Sustainability Reports for Red Back Mining and Lundin Mining; (iii) Supporting GRI with QA in Japan; and (iv) Contributing to IFC Corporate Responsibility Forum. Please access pdf file here: Prizma News Summer 2010 (215 KB) or request from Mehrdad[at]prizmasolutions.com.