"Sustainability Reporting Today: The Readers’ Verdict".
The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency
7 – 9 May 2008
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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"One surefire way to prove that business is serious about doing “what’s right” is to publish a sustainability report...I know that everyone [here] is grateful to the GRI for their finely tuned set of rules and tools which take the pain out of the writing and reading process. The technically strong, trusted, and user-friendly G3 guidelines are just the latest tool to make reporting easier for us all. And that’s important because in the post-Enron era, reporting, transparency, and accountability are signature issues. They illustrate integrity. They build trust."
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan |
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A thousand international participants gathered in Amsterdam for quality debate around transparency and sustainability with a specific focus on sustainability reporting.
Global leaders discussed the latest developments in the debates surrounding sustainability and reporting, while practitioners shared their sustainability reporting experiences with a diverse array of global participants.
At this successful event they heard the results of the GRI Readers’ Choice Survey, cutting edge research on the sustainability readers’ views on sustainability reporting today and found out which sustainability reports won a GRI Readers’ Choice Award. |
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The booklet Conference In Review (PDF) provides an exclusive portrait of the 2008 Amsterdam GRI Conference.
Watch the 'BBC World Debate: How accountable is business?' filmed at the conference.
For more in-depth information on the content of the discussions during the conference sessions download the full Conference Report (PDF)
For the program of the conference, download the full Conference Program (PDF)
Or listen to podcasts of all the conference sessions (login required)
You are invited to contact the GRI Secretariat at conference@globalreporting.org for more information on the biennial GRI Conference.