Tag: corporate citizenship
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The value of sustainability reporting
Sustainability/ESG reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards is a crucial element for companies to succeed in the long term. Crucial not only in the effort ... -
License to operate – Millennials, Generation Z
The world is changing. Are you changing too? Millennials, who are today in decision-making positions and Generation Z, who hold our future in their hands, are ... -
Harvard Business Review: Creating shared value
Harvard professor Michael Porter and Mark R. Kramer argue that the capitalist system is, under siege. Business is increasingly viewed as a major cause of social, ... -
Case study: How Crescent Enterprises develops entrepreneurship among schoolchildren, university students, women and young entrepreneurs
Crescent Enterprises is a multinational company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) employing 4,585 people in 20 countries across five continents, whose operations encompass sectors ... -
Tax transparency: Putting an end to tax evasion
On 5 December 2019, GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) announced the world’s first public reporting standard for corporate tax, which includes country-by-country disclosures. The article below investigates ... -
Deloitte: Organisations should reinvent themselves around a human focus
According to Deloitte’s 219 Global Human Capital Trends survey, involving almost 1, respondents in 119 countries, an intensifying combination of economic, social, and political issues is, ... -
Spreadsheet-analysing money managers in control of trillion-dollar funds force polluters to change
Energy giant Shell announced, recently, a goal to halve its carbon footprint by 2050, including a reduction in pollution from cars that burn the company’s petrol ... -
SRI assets in the United States grow to $12.0 trillion, from $8.7 trillion in 2016
US SIF report: According to the US SIF Foundation’s 2018 biennial Report on US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends, sustainable, responsible and impact investing (SRI) ... -
CEMAsys.com AS achieves accreditation to help companies set climate targets consistent with the Paris Agreement
outlined in the Paris Agreement. CEMAsys.com has now become the first Nordic consulting firm accredited by the CDP as an SBT Consulting Partner. In the ... -
Case study: How Ericsson respects and promotes human rights
As one of the world’s leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with approximately 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through ... -
Case study: How Hitachi promotes community involvement and development
Hitachi’s diverse operations span the globe and involve a wide range of communities. As a good corporate citizen, , carrying out a range of activities that ... -
Case study: How IIAC builds trust with local communities
After opening in 2001, Incheon International Airport has become the gateway to Korea, handling 3/4 of the arrivals to and departures from the country. With 90 ... -
Deloitte: Business leaders can win the loyalty of millennials by driving societal and economic change
According to the 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey, millennials today are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for positive social and political change, and are concerned about safety, ... -
Are your competitors better prepared?
Two important questions 1) How will your company or organisation benefit from the transition to the Sustainable, Circular Economy? 2) Are your competitors better prepared, gaining ... -
Use the GRI Standards ASAP to accelerate positive change
HOW WE ARE ACCELERATING POSITIVE CHANGE AND HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION We are offering for free the Highly Rated 2-day FBRH GRI Standards Certified, ISEP and ... -
GRI Standards – Comprehensive Option 2.0
Opinion – if you agree please share Taking CSR/ ESG/ SDG/ Sustainability reporting to the next level The GRI Standards do a marvelous job in helping ... -
We are running out of resources to sustain life
According to a recent publication by HSBC, the world spent its entire natural resources budget for 2018, by 1 August. In 1970, these resources – as ... -
GRI is part of the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance to build a greener, more equitable economy
After adopting, in 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the EU is taking a number of new initiatives to support the development, globally, of a sustainable ... -
Improve the Quality of your GRI Standards Report
GRI has launched the Disclosure Review Service, to be used by any organization producing a report in accordance with or referencing the GRI Standards. GRI’s aim ... -
Case study: How Nissan promotes traffic safety worldwide
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 1.25 million people worldwide lose their lives in traffic accidents, every year. As a leading global automaker, , ... -
The sustainability challenge: The aspect environmental ratings fail to consider
According to an article by Auden Schendler and Michael Toffel in MIT Sloan Management Review environmental rankings of businesses often fail to take into account advocacy activities ... -
The sustainability challenge: What are companies who gain from their sustainability efforts doing differently?
MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) carried out a global survey among over 4,000 executives and managers – including 2,874 respondents from ... -
Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK): Millennials love CSR
Based on the findings of relevant surveys, the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) identified a number of key behaviour patterns in millennial consumers (18- to 34-year-olds) ... -
Harvard Business School study: Companies implementing sustainability policies outperform those who fail to do so
Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim carried out a study exploring the impact of corporate sustainability on a company’s organizational procedures and performance, using ... -
The sustainability challenge: Cooperating to achieve systemic change
According to an article by Peter M. Senge, Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Katrin Kaeufer, Hilary Bradbury and John S. Carroll in MIT Sloan Management Review, in the ... -
The sustainability challenge: How is the transition to sustainability to be achieved?
According to an article by Christoph Lueneburger and Daniel Golemon in MIT Sloan Management Review, consumer expectations regarding products’ environmental and/or social impacts, have changed. How ... -
The sustainability challenge: What is sustainability really about?
According to an article by John R. Ehrenfeld in MIT Sloan Management Review, many businesses today fail to take effective, meaningful action on sustainability challenges and ... -
GRI and the UN Global Compact join forces and enable measuring and reporting on the SDGs
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the United Nations Global Compact, supported by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), have joined forces and have launched the ‘Business ... -
Beyond Reports – GRI monthly podcast
Beyond Reports is a monthly podcast from GRI, pioneer of the world’s most widely used standards on sustainability reporting and corporate disclosure. Each episode features the ... -
Case study: How Nestlé tries to operate with a fundamental respect for the rights of the people it employs, does business with or otherwise interacts with
Recognizing that prospering over the long term means doing business in compliance with national and international laws, regulations and standards, as well as its own principles ...
