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| 01-Sep-2010 | | GRI Indian Focal Point Director speaks at INDESEARCH Lecture Series | | The eighth INDSEARCH Annual Public Awareness Lecture Series took place between 16 and 21 August 2010 at the Indian Law College in Pune, India. The theme of this year’s Lecture Series, was: “Sustainability Reporting as per GRI Guidelines: The Indian Experience”.
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | An Insider’s Perspective on Reporting Developments by Graham Terry | | “It has been very useful to be part of the GRI Working Group because it has given me a broader perspective on how non-financial materiality poses a problem for companies.”
In July 2010, Professor Mervyn King announced the formation of the South African Integrated Reporting Committee (IRC). The IRC was cre |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | Global Sustainability Panel Launched by Ban Ki-moon Focuses on Transparency | | On 9 August 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. The panel is co-chaired by President Tarja Halonen of Finland and President Zuma of South Africa. It brings together leading global policy makers, private sector and civil society experts in order to formulate a n |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | GRI’s Chief Executive engages with financial community | | QFINANCE, a one-stop guide for finance professionals that covers key topics on finance, has published the article No More Room for “Business as Usual”. In the article Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of GRI, argues that having common global standards for reporting companies’ nonfinancial performance |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | New data partner: Sustentare Portugal | | This month GRI signed an agreement with Sustentare to join as GRI’s latest data partner for Portugal.GRI and its data partners share their information on the release of new GRI reports with one another on a monthly basis, ensuring that the latest GRI reports from around the world are available to the public.Each |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | Latest Featured GRI Reports | | The list below reflects all new Featured Reports that have recently released their GRI Sustainability Report through the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to reportservices@globalreporting.org.
AlbemarleASN BankCaixanovaCoca-Cola GermanyDeut |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | Call for Comment: Public Survey for Media Sector Supplement | | The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and project partners, Fundación AVINA, Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano and Univerdad Javeriana, invite all industry stakeholders to submit their feedback in the Public Comment Period on the first draft of the GRI Media Sector Supplement.
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | Learning Publication available in Finnish | | The GRI Pathways Learning Publication ‘The GRI Reporting Cycle: A handbook for small and not-so-small organizations’ is now available in Finnish. This publication is a step-by-step handbook that provides expert guidance on the whole sustainability reporting process and is useful for beginners and experienc |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | GRI certifies two new training partners | | GRI has certified two new training partners this month. PricewaterhouseCoopers Denmark and Sweden has been certified to give the GRI Certified Training Program in Nordic countries (specifically Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). Ernst & Young Societe Anonyme for the Provision of Advisory Services has been c |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | GRI Focal Point Brazil Workshop | | On 27 August, 2010, the Focal Point Network Manager in Brazil organized a workshop in Sao Paulo with the support of the Regional Network team. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the synergies between the GRI Framework and the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) entitled ‘IFRS for GRI practition |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | New developments to help drive supply chain reporting | | GRI is building sustainability reporting capacity within the supply chains of large multinationals. This year, a total of 34 suppliers including PUMA, EDP and Natura Cosmetics will start their sustainability reporting journey as part of the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) Program ac |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | GRI Training gets a Thumbs up! | | Getting to grips with the process and terminology of sustainability report writing can be a daunting task however, which is why completing a GRI training course can be beneficial, as discovered by a new member of the sustainability report writing community.
A recent article entitled “A Newbie Reporter’s I |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | G3 Indicator Protocols now available in Turkish | | Following last year’s translation of the GRI G3 Reporting Guidelines and the C-Level Template, launched in October 2009, the GRI Indicator Protocols are now available in Turkish. During the translation of the six Indicator Protocols, some of the indicators have been amended for clarity and better readability purp |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | CSR Asia Summit | | One of Asia’s major events on CSR will take place on 14-15 September 2010 in Hong Kong. In its eigthth year, the CSR Asia Summit aims to be the most innovative and challenging conference on CSR in the Asia-Pacific region.
Each year, the event gathers over 300 international thought leaders to explore key CSR iss |
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| 31-Aug-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders
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Organization name
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Birla Institute of Management Technology
India
Borger & Burghouts
The Netherlands
Eco-45 COnsultoria S.L.
Spain
Paia Consulting
Singapore
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Formation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) | | On 2 August 2010 The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced the formation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC).
The principal objective of the IIRC is to create a globally accepted framework for integrated reporting. Such a |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Latest Featured GRI Reports | | The list below reflects all new Featured Reports that have recently released their GRI Sustainability Report through the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to reportservices@globalreporting.org.
• Albemarle• ASN Bank• Coca-Co |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Catchpole report lists GRI in the top 12 CSR organizations worldwide | | A recent report released by the Arthur W. Page Catchpole society, a select membership organization for senior public relations and corporate communications executives, has listed GRI in the top 12 Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) organizations worldwide. After researching over 400 executive leadership forums and i |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | GRI needs your feedback! Help shape the next generation of GRI reporting. | | Time is running out to have your say on the Community, Gender and Human Rights related revision recommendations. The public comment period will close on the 23 August and your input is needed. Feedback from the survey will contribute to important revisions to GRI’s reporting framework and the current G3 guideli |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Call for Comment: Public Survey for the GRI Airport Operator Sector Supplement | | The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) invites all industry stakeholders to submit their feedback in the Public Comment Period on the final draft of the GRI Airport Operator Sector Supplement. The Sector Supplement intends to only cover topics that are of importance to the sector and which are not sufficiently covered b |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Call for Comment: Public Survey for Media Sector Supplement | | GRI and project partners, Fundación AVINA, Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano and Univerdad Javeriana, invite all stakeholders to submit their feedback in the Public Survey on the first draft of the GRI Media Sector Supplement (MSS).
The Media Sector Supplement will provide reporting guidance by addre |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | New data partner – Prizma LLC | | This month GRI has signed an agreement with Prizma LLC to join as GRI’s latest data partner for the US and Canada.
GRI and its partners share their information on releases of new GRI reports with one another on a monthly basis, ensuring that the latest GRI reports from around the world are available to the publi |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | GRI certifies five new training partners | | GRI has certified five new training partners this month. BSD Consulting (Brazil) has been certified to give the GRI Certified Training Program in Brazil. Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) and Sustainable Development Ltd. have been certified for Greece. CEInet Data Co., Ltd. has been certified to give the G |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | Recently Certified Software! | | In June 2010 PureReport developed by S2D2 - Stratégies et Solutions de Développement Durable was certified through the GRI Certified Software and Tools Program. PureReport has fulfilled the applicable requirements of the GRI Certified Software and Tools program and its software PureReport contains verified GR |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | G3 Guidelines released in Bahasa Indonesia | | Bahasa Indonesia has become the latest addition to the growing list of G3 Guidelines translations, bringing the total number of publicly available translations of the Guidelines to 24. The Bahasa Indonesia G3 translation is available in electronic format (PDF) and can be downloaded for free from GRI’s website.
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | GRI Introductory Workshops held in June and July | | Pakistan
On 3 and 7 June 2010, Ásthildur Rutten-Hjaltadóttir, Learning Service Manager at GRI facilitated GRI Introductory Workshops at Karachi and Islamabad, Pakistan. The workshops were initiated and organized by Corporate Social Responsibility Centre Pakistan (CSRCP) and Muhammad Imran Associates.
The wo |
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| 11-Aug-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes the following new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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ACCA Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Chief Sustainability Reporting Office
USA
CLIMACT
Belgium
Cofesa
South Africa
DKG Group
Greece
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| 07-Jul-2010 | | Update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises | | Every year, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) holds a roundtable on corporate responsibility. The 2010 OECD Corporate Responsibility roundtable, held in Paris from 30 June – 1 July 2010, marked the tenth anniversary of the 2000 Revision of the Guidelines for Multinational Enterpris |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | Stakeholder Council Elections | | The Stakeholder Council (SC) nomination period closed on 29 June 2010. The next stage is the election that will take place from 21 July to 9 September 2010 (Midnight CET). Of the entire GRI network, the GRI Organizational Stakeholders (OS) have the unique right to vote for the SC. Divided into the following constitu |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | Organizational changes- Combining the forces of SuRF and LS | | To meet the challenges of the new organizational objectives for 2015 and 2020, GRI has started to redesign its organizational structure. Recent research on the future of sustainability reporting and GRI reinforced the need for a deeply synergized organization. Therefore, effective July 1, 2010, GRI is combining the for |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | 2010 GRI Global Conference Executive Briefing | | A four page executive briefing which summarizes the main outcomes of the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency is available now for viewing.
Full length videos of the sessions as well as photos, presentations, and social media coverage of the conference can be found on our conference website. |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | Call for comment: Public Comment Period for Report Content and Materiality | | Incremental revisions are an essential piece of the work being carried out today to keep the GRI Guidelines up-to-date. GRI would like your input on the next generation of the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines related to Content & Materiality.
The G3.1 Public Comment period is now open until 22 September, 2010. The |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | Closing soon! Survey on the Event Organizers Sector Supplement | | Draft indicators for the future Event Organizers Sector Supplement are currently available for public consultation via this survey. All Event Organizer professionals, civil society and stakeholders in the sector are welcome to submit their feedback. The survey will close on 3 August 2010, so please make sure to send yo |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | Latest Featured GRI Reports | | The list below reflects all new Featured Reports that have recently released their GRI Sustainability Report through the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to reportservices@globalreporting.org.
• Fraport• Holcim• Jain Irriga |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | New call for GRI certified training partners in Israel | | GRI is now calling for Training Partners in Israel.
The candidate-organizations must have an ethically sound reputation and experience in the implementation of training/ learning activities, among other attributes.
The GRI certified training program prepares training participants to plan and coordinate a reporting p |
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| 06-Jul-2010 | | France- Website seeks to bring together the most recognized CSR initiatives | | The Study Center for Corporate Social Responsibility has recently set up the website http://www.reportingcsr.org/. This website is dedicated to offering educational support in both French and English to companies with regard to their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), including reporting.
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2010 GRI Conference in Review | | From 26-28 May 2010, Amsterdam hosted the third GRI Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. This year’s conference attracted more participants than ever before and from a greater number of countries around the world. In 2008, approximately 1000 conference representatives hailed from 55 different cou |
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Nominations for GRI Stakeholder Council Elections open until June 29 | | The GRI Stakeholder Council (SC) needs you!
The Stakeholder Council is a key governance body of GRI. Members approve nominations to the GRI Board of Directors, make strategic recommendations to the Board – including future policy and business plans – and serve as the ‘eyes and ears’ of GRIR |
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'The Rise of the Report and the Regulator' | | Recently ACCA published a report on sustainability reporting "The Rise of the Report and the Regulator" which provides a valuable overview of the level of sustainability reporting activity in the region of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as the extent of regulatory interest.
The report exam |
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UN Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative Announce New Collaboration | | In a push to strengthen the quality of sustainability reporting in the corporate sector, the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced at the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency an agreement to align their work in advancing corporate responsibility and |
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Future Trends in Sustainability Reporting: GRI’s new research program | | GRI is launching a new research program called “Future Trends in Sustainability Reporting.” The program is part of GRI’s efforts to offer an overview of how the sustainability reporting field is developing and evolving. Several topics will be covered under this program including: Integrated reportin |
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Natura Cosméticos joins GRI's GANTSch program | | GRI is happy to announce Natura Cosméticos’ participation in the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) program. Natura –the first Brazilian company to join the Global Action Network - is one of South America’s leading manufacturers of skin care, solar filters, cosme |
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PUMA’s transparency! | | On 27 May, PUMA announced that all core suppliers will receive training and coaching to produce GRI reports. This makes PUMA a leading company in sustainability reporting in the supply chain!
PUMA has participated in the GANTSCh initiative since the pilot phase. “What the sustainability reporting process has ach |
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| 15-Jun-2010 | |
The first software certification completed just in time for the GRI conference | | SoFi Solution 4.0 developed by PE INTERNATIONAL was certified through the GRI Certified Software and Tools Program on 12 May 2010. The product includes GRI copyright protected content and the accuracy of the use of this material within the software tool was verified by GRI. SoFi Solution 4.0 by PE INTERNATIONAL is the |
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New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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Amsterdam RAI Netherlands
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Have your say on the content of the future Event Organizers Sector Supplement | | Draft indicators for the future Event Organizers Sector Supplement are now available for public comment period via this survey. All Event Organizer professionals, civil society and stakeholders in the sector are welcome to submit their feedback. The survey will close on 3 August 2010, so please make sure to send your c |
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Recent Organizational Stakeholder Activity | | The OS Network has been active over the past month, culminating in the Organizational Stakeholder General Assembly and Celebration held at the conference. With over 300 OS for each session, it was an excellent opportunity to link members of the network from around the world. Both events kicked-off discussions from GR |
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| 15-Jun-2010 | | Latest Featured GRI Reports | | The list below reflects all new Featured Reports that have recently released their GRI Sustainability Report through the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to reportservices@globalreporting.org.
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Corporate Environmental Management: From Policy to Practice | | The business school, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore(IIM-B) partnered with the Asian Development Bank(ADB) to organize a workshop on “Corporate Environmental Management: from Policy to Practice” which was held in IIM-Bangalore, India. There were seven key sessions which illustrated important corpo |
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Corporate Sustainability – A Business Case | | GRI collaborated with the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability, Mumbai, and organized a seminar on Corporate Sustainability – A Business Case in Mumbai, on May 11, 2010. KPMG India was a Knowledge Partner for this seminar. Mr. M.K.Chouhan, Chairman - Mahendra & Young Knowledge Foundation and Vi |
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| 06-May-2010 | | Display your newly released GRI report at the GRI Conference! | | GRI is to display newly released GRI reports at the conference. All reporting organizations who make use of the GRI Announcement Service between now and 26 May 2010 are eligible to display their GRI report at the conference. If you would like your GRI report to be displayed at the conference, please sign up for the GRI |
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| 04-May-2010 | | EDP renews participation in GRI's GANTSch program | | GRI is happy to announce that EDP (Energias de Portugal S.A.) has decided to extend its participation in the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) program.
During the last reporting period five of EDP’s suppliers, based in Portugal, received certified GRI SME training and follow-u |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Opening Soon: Public Comment Periods for Human Rights, Gender and Community | | The Public Comment Periods for the output of the current Human Rights, Community and Gender Working Group processes will open on the first day of the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, Wednesday 26 May 2010.
The G3.1 content proposals, which are thematic recommendations for edits to the |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Exclusive Dutch election debate to be held at GRI conference on 27 May | | On 9 June 2010 the general elections will take place in the Netherlands. The Dutch media is currently focusing on the economic situation rather than on “green issues” as the slow post-crisis recovery is overshadowed by the financial turmoil in Greece and other Southern European countries. On the other hand |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Delegations from all over the globe to attend conference | |
The GRI Secretariat is excited to welcome a great variety of Delegations from all over the world to the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. A Delegation is a group of 11 individuals that represent a country or a region (in some cases a constituency). Currently there are Delegations coming |
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| 04-May-2010 | | NGO and Food Processing Sector Supplements to be launched at GRI Conference | | Two new GRI Sector Supplements, the Food Processing Sector Supplement and NGO Sector Supplement, will be launched at the GRI Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency.
Food Processing Sector Supplement
Consumers are becoming increasingly interested in understanding how the food they eat is produ |
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| 04-May-2010 | | GRI to headline at NASDAQ Sustainable Reporting Event | | GRI will ring the closing bell at NASDAQ, as part of headline participation in sustainable investment roundtable, New York, May 14. GRI will be the featured guest at a prestigious event at New York’s NASDAQ OMX Exchange on 14 May 2010, entitled: ‘Sustainable Investing: What’s at Stake for Investors & |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Celebrating 10 years of the Earth charter | | The Earth Charter initiative kicked off its 10 year anniversary – known as Earth Charter+10 - in Mexico, coinciding with Earth Day celebrations (22 April 2010). To mark the occasion, the Earth Charter has launched a communication campaign entitled ‘It Starts with One’, with the aim to ‘remind us |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Global investors ask companies to disclose anti-corruption measures | | In yet another move by investors to pressure companies to be more accountable by disclosing material sustainability data, it was reported on 27 April 2010 that a US coalition of investors representing $1.7 trillion USD has written to 21 major companies in 14 countries asking them to improve their disclosure of bribery |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Keep up to date with GRI - now on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn | | In addition to the existing successful GRI LinkedIn group, the GRI Secretariat has now established accounts on both Twitter and Facebook, and is utilising them to bring the latest updates to the GRI network.
Start following the GRI Secretariat on Twitter now.
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| 04-May-2010 | | Call for Comment: Public Survey for Construction & Real Estate Sector Supplement | | GRI invites all stakeholders to submit their feedback in the Public Survey on the first draft of the GRI Construction & Real Estate Sector Supplement (CRESS). The Construction & Real Estate Sector Supplement will provide reporting guidance by addressing specific sustainability issues that are unique to the Construction |
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| 04-May-2010 | | New Data Partner – KPMG Sweden | | GRI recently signed an agreement with KPMG Sweden, who have now joined GRI’s growing family of Data Partners.
GRI and the Data Partners share their knowledge of new GRI reports with one another on a monthly basis, ensuring that the latest GRI reports from around the world are available to the public on the GRI R |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Notice: Changes to Application Level check approval period | | Due to the busy reporting period, the standard response time for Application Level Checks has been extended temporarily effective immediately to 10-15 working days. GRI kindly asks all reporters submitting their reports for an Application Level Check to build this time into their report production schedules. GRI will n |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Time is running out! Have your say on the Oil & Gas Sector Supplement Survey | |
Draft indicators for the future Oil & Gas Sector Supplement are currently available for public consultation via this online survey. The survey opened in early March and has already attracted over 130 responses. The survey will close on 2 June 2010, so make sure to submit your feedback by the deadline. The survey is a |
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| 04-May-2010 | | GRI and Volans: What are the future trends in reporting? | | GRI is set to launch a new publication called “The Transparent Economy” at the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. This publication – the first in GRI’s Explorations Series – presents the intriguing findings of research led by Volans.
The report identifies th |
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| 04-May-2010 | | First certification of Software and Tools | | GRI is happy to announce that two software companies: PE International, Germany and SARL Stratégies et Solutions de Développement Durable (S2D2), France have submitted their software for GRI certification. GRI hopes that the certification processes will be finalized shortly!
Please note that all software pro |
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| 04-May-2010 | | Training community celebration at conference | | The GRI Learning and Services Team will hold a celebration event at the conference especially for the GRI training community. This session will provide an informal platform for the GRI Training Partners, Quality Control Consultants of the GRI Certified Training Program, and anyone who has attended a GRI Certified Train |
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| 04-May-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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Accenture
USA
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| 04-May-2010 | | First academic institution and Organizational Stakeholder issues GRI Report | | The School of Industrial Engineering (ETSII) from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (Spain), is the first GRI Organizational Stakeholder that is an academic institution to issue a GRI sustainability report. This leading effort demonstrates that the GRI Reporting Framework is applicable to all kinds of organizati |
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| 04-May-2010 | | BM&FBOVESPA - first stock exchange to become GRI Organizational Stakeholder | | The Brazilian stock exchange BM&FBOVESPA has recently signed up to be a GRI Organizational Stakeholder, the first Stock Exchange to join the network. This stock exchange is among those leading in initiatives to incorporate sustainability information into their data sets, BM&FBOVESPA having initiated ‘The Bovespa |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | Session pre-booking now available for Amsterdam GRI Conference | | It’s less than 2 months to the 3rd biennial Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, which is to take place from 26-28 May 2010. Under the motto “Rethink. Rebuild. Report.” 200 global leaders from business, politics and civil society will discuss in more than 50 sessions the cha |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | A taste of the conference plenary and main hall sessions | | "Rethink. Rebuild. Report. Towards a Sustainable Economy". The ambitious and timely goal of the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency is to craft a global agenda for building a sustainable economy over the next decade. The plenary and main hall sessions form the conference’s red ribbon p |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | The Readers’ Choice Awards to come to a final close on Thursday 8 April | | There’s only 24 hours left to nominate your favorite reports for the Readers’ Choice Awards 2010.
The survey outcomes will be presented and the Award winners will be announced on 27 May during a festive evening ceremony at the GRI Conference in Amsterdam.
Make sure that your opinion counts and visit the R |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | GRI and ING announce the winners of The Big Five Competition | | On 12 March 2010 GRI and ING – a 2010 Conference sponsor – announced the winners of “The Big Five Competition” in which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) competed for one of up to five booths worth €13,000 at this year’s Conference Market Place.
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | Canadian Government creates new Centre of Excellence in CSR | | The Canadian Government has commissioned the development of an online Centre of Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as one of the four pillars of the Canadian Government’s action plan on CSR, Building the Canadian Advantage, which was launched in March 2009. It is intended that the website, which |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | Asian stock exchanges lead by example by producing own GRI Reports | | Stock exchanges around the world are in a unique position to drive change in corporate behavior with respect to disclosure of sustainability information, both through leading by example with their own transparency and reporting, and also through influencing their listed companies through measures such as issuing best p |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | The ‘Integrated Reporting’ discussion gains momentum on the web | | Whether you call it environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, sustainability reporting, or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, it is clear that this activity has entered the mainstream and that it has increasing significance for organizations of all sizes, as well as governments. There is also |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | ESG disclosure discussed at EU Presidency Conference | | Senior European and Spanish employment officials, academics, and business and civil society representatives met in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 25 and 26 March 2010 to discuss, amongst other items, the EU’s direction on CSR. GRI Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen attended the conference and spoke of the need for m |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | New GRI Financial Services Network. Join today! | | GRI is setting up a Network for reporters and report users in the Financial Services sector. Through this Network, GRI will disseminate information and engage in discussion with Network members on the use and future updates of the Financial Services Sector Supplement. The Supplement was published in 2008, and since the |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | New Featured Reports | | International food retailer, Ahold, is the latest company to display their new GRI report as a Featured Report on the GRI website using the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to the GRI Report Services Team.
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | Display your newly released GRI report at the GRI Conference! | | GRI is to display newly released GRI reports at the conference. All reporting organizations who make use of the GRI Announcement Service between 1 April and 26 May 2010 are eligible to display their GRI report at the conference. If you would like your GRI report to be displayed at the conference, please sign up for the |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | New GRI Certified Training Partners | | GRI has certified two new training partners this month. Tofuture Oy has been certified for the Nordic countries. They are specifically certified to offer training in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Tofuture Oy is the first Certified Training Partner in the Nordic countries.
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | GRI network grows in the Middle East | | GRI has been working closely with several countries in the Middle East since the early 2000s, however, in the past two years, activities in interest around the sustainability reporting agenda seems to have increased significantly.
Just last month several introductory workshops to the GRI Guidelines have been held in |
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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| 06-Apr-2010 | | New Secretariat staff announcement | | The GRI Secretariat would like to welcome several new staff members from all over the globe that have joined the team over the past few months.
New additions to the Chief Executive’s office include: Pietro Bertazzi as Policy & Advocacy Manager, originally from Italy; Makachia Ong’ong’a as the Assist |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | Making Reporting Valuable in Hong Kong – GRI Workshop 16 March | | GRI is to hold a workshop – Making Reporting Valuable in Hong Kong – on 16 March 2010 which will be kindly hosted by The Business Environment Council in Kowloon.
Sustainability reporting has exploded in China with over 600 companies reporting on their corporate social responsibility in 2009. Furthermore, t |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | GRI Focal Point India official launch opened by government representatives | | The GRI Focal Point in India was formally launched on 22 February 2010 at the India Habitat Convention Centre in New Delhi.
Shri R Bandyopadhyay, Secretary of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India gave the opening remarks, which were followed by a speech by Shri Jitesh Khosla, Head of the Indian Inst |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | First GRI WebEx meeting to be held this month | | GRI is very happy to announce the first in a series of trial WebEx online meetings for 2010, exclusively for GRI Organizational Stakeholders (OS).
On 27 January the US SEC issued ground-breaking guidance requiring |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | GRI representatives receive a warm welcome across Southern Africa | |
Enrique Torres and Shivani Rajpal of the GRI Learning Services team travelled to Africa in February to give several GRI Introductory Workshops organized by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Four workshops were held across Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, with around 180 participants attendi |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | Latest Featured GRI Reports | | The list below reflects all new Featured Reports that have recently released their GRI Sustainability Report through the GRI Announcement Service. If you would like to have your newly released report featured, please send an e-mail to the GRI Report Services Team. |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | Draft Oil & Gas Sector indicators now out for public comment | | The first draft set of indicators of the Oil & Gas Sector Supplement is now available for public consultation via this survey. Make sure to submit your feedback prior to the closing date for this public comment period - 2 June 2010.The survey contains a set of sector-specific performance indicators and sector commentar |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | GRI calls for Data Partner in Spain | | GRI is currently looking for a Data Partner from Spain to join the Data Consortium. Spain is currently one of GRI’s top countries in terms of the number of reports issued and therefore GRI is very interested in collaborating with a Spanish partner.
GRI and the data partners share their knowledge of new GRI repor |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | GRI launches new reporting guidance for mining and metals sector | | GRI has now finalized the development of sector-specific reporting guidance: the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement. This new guidance will be available as a free download from the GRI website from Saturday 6 March 2010.
The Mining and Metals Sector Supplement will be launched in Toronto on 6 March at the Mining, Peo |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | Big Five Competition a great success! Winners to be announced soon | |
The application period for the Big Five Competition closed on February 17 as a great success. With just a short time to send in applications, GRI and ING were able to reach SMEs from all over the world and from a diverse range of industries. In total, GRI received over 50 applications from 22 countries with an excel |
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| 01-Mar-2010 | | Win tickets to the GRI Conference! | |
Five free tickets to the 2010 GRI Amsterdam Conference on Sustainability and Transparency will be handed out to Master and PhD students that take part as readers in the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards.
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| 03-Feb-2010 | | 4th European ESG Workshop – Trade unions and public authorities | | The fourth of the European workshops on disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) was held last week in Brussels, this time focusing on the perspectives of trade unions and public authorities.
European trade unions, trade union research institutes, national trade unions (Spain and UK), as well as secto |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | All poster presentations now selected for academic conference | |
The topics for all twelve poster presentations to be featured at the Academic Conference have now been selected. The Academic Conference is an integral part of the overall Amsterdam Conference on Sustainability and Transparency to be held between 26 – 28 May 2010.
The final selection encompasses a wide var |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | Scoring remains open for the Readers’ Choice Awards
| | The first round of scoring in the 2010 GRI Readers’ Choice Awards will remain open throughout February, so, there’s still time to have your say on the state of sustainability reporting today and to reward those organizations who you feel are getting it right.
The first round of scoring has been extended as |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New report shows increase in uptake of GRI reporting in the S&P 100 | | The latest edition of the annual Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN) commissioned report - ‘S&P 100 Sustainability Reporting Comparison’ - shows a marked increase in the number of firms issuing GRI reports.
• The number of Standard and Poors (S&P) companies producing sustainabil |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | GRI engages with US Business Roundtable on ESG Reporting Trends | | GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework Director, Mike Wallace was recently invited to present to the members of the US Business Roundtable on ESG Reporting Trends.
The Business Roundtable’s SEE Change Initiative provides guidance and resources to US companies on sustainability and ESG, and it was through this p |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | Indian government releases voluntary CSR guidelines | | India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs has launched voluntary guidelines for responsible business which aim to add value to the operations and contribute towards the long term sustainabilityof the business. These guidelines also aim to enable business to focus as well as contribute towards the interests of the sta |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | The ESG research firm market is heating up – mergers, acquisitions and sales | | Recent activity among environmental, social and governance (ESG) research houses demonstrates its increasing value.
In August 2009, the North American arm of sustainability research provider to the financial sector, Sustainalytics, merged with Canadian-based research firm, Jantzi Research, to form Jantzi-Sustainalyt |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | More firms excluded from Norwegian sovereign wealth fund on ethical grounds | | On 19 January 2010, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced that it will drop 17 tobacco companies from the portfolio of its Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), adding to a growing list of stocks blacklisted by Europe’s biggest equity investor.
The companies were barred from the $455 billion (€326 b |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New GRI data partners announced- Alternate (Hungary) and NCSR (Indonesia) | | GRI recently signed agreements with Hungarian organization Alternate, and Indonesian organization NCSR who becomeGRI’s newest data partners.
GRI and the data partners share their knowledge of new GRI reports with one another on a monthly basis, ensuring that the latest GRI reports from around the world are avail |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New research examines GRI reporting in the public agencies sector | | Communication with the citizens of cities, countries or regions affected by public regulations is only one reason why Public Agencies are asked to engage in GRI sustainability reporting. GRI has recently examined the use of the Sector Supplement for Public Agencies (pilot version, 2005), and the findings of this resear |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | Hungarian translation of GRI Application Levels | | The Application Levels document, one of three core documents that make up the G3 Guidelines, has now been translated into Hungarian. GRI would like to thank Alternate for making this possible.
The Application Levels communicate to what extent the G3 Guidelines have been utilized in your sustainability report. They are |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New call for Training Partners in Central and Eastern European countries
| | GRI is now calling for Training Partners in the following Central and Eastern European countries: Russia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia.
The GRI certified training program prepares training participants to plan and coordinate a reporting process, based on GRI Guidelines.
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New call for Training Partners in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand | | GRI is now calling for Training Partners in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The GRI certified training program prepares training participants to plan and coordinate a reporting process, based on GRI Guidelines.
The candidate-organizations must have an ethically sound reputation and experience in the implementatio |
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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| 02-Feb-2010 | | Paul Hohnen engages with GRI's South African stakeholders in Cape Town | |
GRI Associate, Paul Hohnen, recently hosted a business breakfast in Cape Town to discuss the rapidly changing sustainability reporting landscape and reporting requirements in South Africa. Implications and opportunities that have arisen following the launch of the King III report in September last 2009 were discusse |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Next focus area for G3 Updates: Supply Chain Reporting | |
GRI will soon begin a Supply Chain Disclosure Project with the aim of addressing what is one of the most difficult challenges for sustainability reporting organizations today.
The globalization of the world economy has led to a corresponding growth in the complexity of sustainability management. Organizations no |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Reflections on COP15 and the challenges of reporting on climate change | | In December 2009, GRI Deputy Chief Executive, Teresa Fogelberg, was present in Copenhagen at the COP15 Climate Change Summit (COP15) to launch a joint research publication by GRI and ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), entitled “High Impact Sectors: the Challenge of Reporting on Climate Ch |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | The Public Sector falls under the sustainability and transparency spotlight | |
In response to increased demand for more specific reporting guidance for public sector organizations in the past GRI has developed the Public Agencies Sector Supplement in support of the GRI Guidelines. The Sector Supplement is currently a pilot version, but may soon move into the final phases of development.
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | State-owned companies in Sweden out-do the rest in sustainability reporting | | In December 2009, the Institute for the Accountancy Profession in Sweden (FAR) and the Swedish Association of Auditors (SRS) awarded the annual prizes for the ’Best Sustainability Reports’ in Sweden at the Finforum - a yearly event held by the Swedish Financial Analysts’ Federation.
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | GRI ‘Year in Review’ report now available | | At the commencement of this new year, the GRI Secretariat is proud to announce and launch its first ‘Year in Review’ report, which gives an account of the organization’s achievements during the financial year 2008-2009, and will help readers understand how GRI went about the business of meeting its st |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Online now! Draft program for GRI Conference | |
The 3 day program for The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency (to run from 26-28 May 2010) is shaping up nicely. The draft program for all the plenary sessions is now viewable on the Conference website.
Readers can find out about all the plenary sessions including the Opening Plenary s |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Connect with leading researchers from the CSR field at the Academic Conference | |
As an integral component of the overall Conference, the Academic Conference will offer ample opportunity for interaction and exchange between academics and sustainability reporting practitioners. A series of six debates will focus attention on important topics within the field of sustainability/CSR reporting. These |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Embark now on the Airports Sector Supplement public survey | |
The first public survey on the Airport Operators Sector Supplement is now open. Have your say on the development of the Sector Supplement between 13 January and 5 March 2010. Click here to take the survey.
The working group has developed the draft Sector Supplement over the course of three meetings. Three further |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Let’s Report Template now available in Polish | |
A Polish translation of the “Let’s Report!” template is now available. The template shows what a basic GRI report should contain (according to the requirements in the GRI G3 Guidelines for an Application Level C report) and provides a simple way for an organization to produce a report. |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | Last call for Training Partners – UK/Republic of Ireland, Portugal, France, Italy, Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg, Greece and Turkey | | GRI is now calling for Training Partners in UK/Republic of Ireland, Portugal, France, Italy, The Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg, Greece and Turkey.
The candidate-organizations must have an ethically sound reputation and experience |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | | GRI has certified three new training partners this month: China WTO Tribune is certified in the Chinese speaking countries. They are specifically certified to offer the training in Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan.
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | GRI welcomes international delegates to ‘Training of Trainers’ course | |
Nine participants from four different countries attended the third ‘Training of Trainers’ course held in Amsterdam from 1-3 December 2009. The participants represented six Training Partner organizations from India, Peru, Spain, and the USA. Most of the participants have already provided or are about to |
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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| 11-Jan-2010 | | GRI information more accessible to Chinese speakers | |
Starting this month, GRI information will be much more accessible to Chinese speakers. The GRI website now features several explanatory webpages in Chinese. Additionally, the GRI Monthly Newsletters will also be translated into Chinese on a regular basis.
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