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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? (more…)

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. (more…)

On behalf of the Global Compact network in Ukraine, CSR Ukraine Community reviewed the state of practice of non-financial reporting in the Ukraine. (more…)

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?  (more…)

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.  (more…)

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.

A concern of many first-time reporters seems to be their approach to GRI Application Level Declaration. How many reporters do you think declared A-level, B-Level and C-Level? And what is your guess how many skipped the GRI Application Declaration altogether? (more…)

While some may still be wondering how long they can get away without reporting, others see this as an opportunity to leverage sunk costs, impress investors and drive performance improvement. All first time reporters will be wondering about one thing: what is the length of that proverbial string? What are cost drivers of inaugural sustainability reporting? (more…)

As noted in an earlier blog, GRI launched its Metals and Mining Sector Supplement during PDAC’s 78^th Annual Conference held in early March in Toronto which attracted 21,600 attendees. So how and why did PDAC manage to steal the show at GRI’s June conference session on the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement? (more…)

Unable to attend the GRI conference in Amsterdam, I watched the many taped snippets of the Mining & Metals Sector Supplement session on YouTube. One take away from a presentation by First Peoples Worldwide suggests that GRI reports are important but also that they are not designed with local communities as target audience in mind. (more…)