Tag Archives: GRI

What’s state of the art in sustainability reporting?

By Joss Tantram | Published: January 31, 2015

Rewarding the best of the best at the CRRA Awards gives an inkling on sustainability reporting in 2014.

For the last three years my firm (Terrafiniti) has had the distinct pleasure of supporting CorporateRegister.com’s annual CR Reporting Awards (CRRA 15), the unique global, non-financial reporting accolades.

Our role has been to support shortlisting; reading and scoring all awards entries, which gives a fantastic snapshot of current practice in reporting across the world. This year (2014, for the 2015 Awards), the CRRA had a record number of entries, with around 100 organisations submitting reports.

Posted in Business and Sustainability, CSR Reporting, Sustainability Metrics, The Hub | Also tagged corporate register, CRRA, csr reporting, g4, materiality, sustainability, Terrafiniti) | Leave a comment

The State of Sustainability Reporting & Transparency in Canada

By Kathrin Bohr | Published: January 25, 2015

[Join me at TSSS on Feb 5th as we delve into the disconnect between CSR Reporting and Bay/Wall St. – why does it exist and what can we do about it. Click here for details: Bay/Wall Street and Sustainability: Does your CSR Report Resonate with Investors?]

Sustainability reporting in Canada today presents a dilemma. On the one hand, a 2014 study of Canadian reporters by Stakeholder Research Associates Canada (SRA) suggests that a mere 42% of Canadian companies listed on the TSX Composite disclose meaningfully ESG information. SRA’s research also found that among 100 reporting companies across various sectors and geographic regions in Canada, only 20% communicated a long-term strategy informed by targets and goals and only 38% identified their material issues.

Posted in CSR in Canada, CSR Reporting, Sustainability Reporting, The Hub | Also tagged csr reporting, ESG, IIRC, Kathrin Bohr, SASB, Stakeholder Research Associates, sustainability reports | 4 Comments

Six emerging sustainability reporting practices in Canada: TELUS comes out on top

By Anastasia Ostapchuk | Published: November 5, 2014

By Megan Wallingford and Anastasia Ostapchuk of GCNC

After a launch of the Global Compact Network Canada’s inaugural Reporting Peer Review Program this summer, a second cohort of Canadian companies successfully completed the program this October. The seven participating companies (Agrium, Bell, Goldcorp, Loop Initiatives (reviewer only), Stantec, Suncor, & Telus) have named Canadian telecom provider, TELUS, the winner of the Global Compact Peer Review Distinction: Best Report in Group.

Posted in Business and Sustainability, CSR in Canada, CSR Reporting, Leadership, Sustainability Reporting, The Hub | Also tagged agriculture, csr reporting, Global compact canada, GRI G4 Guidelines, sustainability reporting, TELUS’ 2013 CSR Report | Comments closed

It’s time for a unifying metric that measures well-being and inclusive prosperity

By Brad Zarnett | Published: February 17, 2014

Why does sustainability reporting have to be so complicated? It often feels like we’re striving for half measures or incremental improvements. Surely we can do better.

What if there was a unifying metric that allowed companies to measure their influence on well-being throughout their value chain? And only if and when companies performed to a high well-being standard would the rewards, financial and otherwise, follow.

[Join TSSS and CSRwire on March 20th 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST for a new WEBINAR SERIES, Capitalism 2.0: A Deeper Dive. We will be joined by the author of “The Economics of Happiness”, Mark Anielsk, who will share his views on the Future of Capitalism and how well-being is emerging as the new bottom line for business. Listen to a recording of the webinar by Clicking Here]

Posted in Business and Sustainability, Capitalism 2.0, Capitalism2.0, Leadership, new economy, Social and Environmental Impacts, Sustainability Reporting, The Hub | Also tagged bcorp, bcorporation, capitalism 2.0, Mark Anielski, new metrics, SASB, sutainability reporting, The Economics of Happiness, unifying metric of wellbeing, wellbeing | Comments closed

Talk is Cheap: Don’t tell me about Sustainability – Show me!

By Sören Andersson | Published: December 8, 2013

Storytelling is one thing – telling fairy-tales is another…

Humanity is currently facing the, without doubt, toughest challenge ever, stakes are extremely high. Telling fairy-tales and cheating on our next generations at such a serious moment is not what you expect…

During the last couple of weeks reports from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and United Nations Global Compact have shown that there is difference between Saying and Doing – an Enormous difference!

Posted in Behaviour Change, Business and Sustainability, Culture Change, Ethics, Leadership & Culture, Sustainability Metrics, systemic change | Also tagged CDP, corporate sustainability, csr, csr reporting, sustainability, systemic change | Comments closed

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