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| 20-Dec-2007 | | Season's Greetings! | |
It is the season to feel the love all around and spread joy and warmth.
Please collect your greetings card from GRI here.
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | GRI Readers’ Choice Award: Short-list to be Announced 31 December | | Nearly 800 reports are currently in the running for the inaugural GRI Readers Choice Awards. On 31 December the field of eligible reports will be reduced to a short-list based on reports with: the highest volume of scores received (not highest scores!) and the widest diversity of scorers (employees, media, civil societ |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | GRI reporting as an opportunity for going beyond GDP | | The European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF hosted a high-level conference last month to clarify the most appropriate indices to measure progress in terms of wealth and wellbeing. Traditionally progress has been measured using the economic indicator Gross Domestic Product. The conference, |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | GRI Gallery: Micro Finance Institutions and Sustainability Reporting | | A group of commercial and non profit microfinance institutions use the GRI guidelines for their reporting and stakeholder engagement processes. This month’s gallery exhibition by Geert Schuite of Triodos Facet looks at Microfinance Institutions and how they are integrating sustainability into everything they do. |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | Electric Utilities Sector Supplement – Update | | A pilot version of the specific reporting guidance for the electric utility sector is now freely available on the GRI website for companies to draw on during their sustainability reporting pro |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | Reminder: have your say on the Financial Services Sector Supplement | | To update and improve the Financial Services Sector Supplement, GRI and UNEP-FI, have been working in partnership to coordinate a pilot process of the Sector Supplement. A working group of financial institutions and their stakeholders from investment, labor, civil society and others, have been reviewing the Supplement |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | Reminder: Rendezvous with GRI in Paris | | On the 14 January 2008 the long awaited French version of the GRI G3 Guidelines will be launched at a G3 briefing hosted by Gaz de France in Paris. It is hoped that the rele |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | Destination London, Tokyo and New Delhi | | December has been another busy month for GRI outreach. GRI’s Technical Director, Sean Gilbert has made a whirlwind tour in Asia where he attended a CBCC seminar in Tokyo and combined it with a trip to |
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| 20-Dec-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | As 2007 draws to a close, GRI is pleased to announce that there are now 470 Organizational Stakeholders based in some 50 countries ranging from the Netherlands to |
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| 16-Nov-2007 | | Reporting on a global water crisis | | A global water crisis is apparent. At just over the halfway point to the 2015 deadline to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the goal to half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water is far from being met. Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries still have i |
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| 15-Nov-2007 | | GRI Rendezvous in Paris | | On the 14 January 2008 the long awaited French version of the GRI G3 Guidelines will be launched at a G3 briefing in Paris hosted by Gaz de France. The briefing will be chai |
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| 15-Nov-2007 | | Vacancies at the GRI Secretariat | | The expansion of the GRI secretariat means that GRI is currently recruiting for 3 new positions and seeking a replacement Director of Operations. The positions available are:
· Director Sustainability Reporting Framew |
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| 15-Nov-2007 | | Ecuador, the Netherlands and Germany – highlights of last month’s outreach | | Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of GRI, traveled to Ecuador, for the Encuentro de Responsabilidad Social en el Ecuador on good governance, where he gave a presentation on GRI. The Conference was attended by high level representatives from the business and corporate social responsibility communities. |
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | National Annexes – your ideas wanted | | There are many practical questions about how to make reporting both global and local at the same time. GRI has initiated the concept of National Annexes as a way to create a space within the GRI portfolio to help address this question and others. But to do this GRI needs your ideas on how to develop the scope and form |
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | Public Comment Period | | To update and improve the Financial Services Sector Supplement, GRI and UNEP-FI, have been working in partnership to coordinate a pilot process of the Sector Supplement. A working group of financial institutions and their stakeholders from investment, labor, civil society and others, have been reviewing the Supplement |
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | October Outreach | | Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of GRI, travelled to Santiago de Chile to speak at the 8th Forum of Biarritz entitled Social Cohesion and Corporate Social Responsibility.
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | There are now 450 OS in total. Welcome to this month’s new additions:
Union de mutuas matepss Nº 267
Atticus Communications
Altimedes consultancy
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | GRI Bloggers explore the new frontiers of sustainability reporting | | Looking beyond improving their own sustainability performance, leading companies are now working towards influencing the performance of other companies in their supply chain. Companies within the supply chain produce and sell to the value chain leader, directly or indirectly as part of the chain and often incur the la |
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| 18-Oct-2007 | | Harvard Business Review asks why report on climate risks? | |
Whatever sector or business you are in carbon emissions disclosure is increasingly expected. But why should you report on these emissions? Why should businesses care about voluntary reporting on wider climate change risk issues? And how does the reporting process help a company address climate related risks? |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | Sustainability reporting 10 years on | | GRI celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Since its inception in 1997 GRI has developed from a bold idea to a thriving international network involving as many as 30,000 in 70 countries. This growth is a reflection of the establishment of the practice of sustainability reporting, which has evolved from an extraord |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | Podcast: Girish Ramachandran, European Director of TCS on Sustainability | | The GRI Readers’ Choice Awards and Survey launch on 1 October 2007. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of GRI’s partners for the Awards. In this podcast Girish Ramachandran, European Director of TCS talks about the support TCS has given GRI on this project and other initiatives, and discusses the organi |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | Invitation: Contribute to the revision of an assurance standard | | Some organizations find that utilizing some form of assurance along with their reporting process is one way to bring more credibility to the process and the results. There are various ways and means to incorporate assurance into the reporting process, and the G3 Guidelines provides some information and guidance on high |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | Slovakian Translation of G3 Guidelines Released | | Slovakian is the latest addition to the growing list of G3 Guidelines translations bringing the total number of publicly available translations of the Guidelines to 11. The release of this translation indicates a growing interest in and demand for sustainability reporting in |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | Public Comment Period on the Horizon | | To update and improve the Financial Services Sector Supplement, GRI has been running a pilot process in partnership with UNEP-FI. A group of financial institutions and their stakeholders from investment, labor, civil society and others, have been reviewing the Supplement based on their experiences. They will present th |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | GRI representatives visit Dubai, Cologne and Nairobi | | With summer officially over, September saw the start of the autumn conference season. GRI’s Associate Director Business Engagement and Development, Ralph Thurm, took part as key note speaker and panelist at a conference focusing in sustainability reporting in |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | October Outreach | | Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of GRI, will speak in Santiago de Chile, at the 8th Forum of Biarritz entitled Social Cohesion and Corporate Social Responsibility. Other speakers include WBCSD President Björn Stigson, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Former UN Se |
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | ABP, the largest Dutch Pension Fund has become the first pension fund to join GRI’s OS program. The pension fund provides for the Dutch government and education sector employers and employees.
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| 24-Sep-2007 | | 97 New reports this month | | It has been a bumper month for the number of GRI sustainability reports released. 97 reports were published from an array of sectors such as healthcare, finance, mining and construction, and diverse range of countries from |
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| 24-Aug-2007 | | Call for Non-Profit Sector Supplement Working Group Candidates | | GRI is currently seeking interest from a wide range of non-profits and other stakeholders who wish to be considered for the working group to develop a new Non-Profit Sector Supplement. This group will take forward an exciting project that will result in guidance for non-profit organizations on how to better report thei |
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| 16-Aug-2007 | | Secretariat capacity gets a boost | | Ian Cunningham has joined as GRI’s Director of Operations and brings 30 years of management experience in the private sector at companies like Google and Sun Microsystems. Ian takes over from long-time staffer Ralph Thurm, who has shifted his focus from operations to redesigning and adding value to the Organizati |
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| 16-Aug-2007 | | Water management and reporting integrated with new tool | | Companies are facing increased risks associated with water use and availability, so the release of the Global Water Tool this week has been acclaimed as a welcome resource. A free online service developed by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) helps companies manage water risk by calculate the |
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| 16-Aug-2007 | | GRI’s August Outreach | | The United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set in 2000 have just reached the halfway mark to their deadline in 2015. At this time of reflection on progress towards this set of global commitments to lift millions of people out of extreme poverty, Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen spoke on sustainabili |
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| 16-Aug-2007 | | GRI’s September Successes | | On 4 September Ralph Thurm, GRI’s Associate Director Business Engagement & Development, will speak in Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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| 27-Jul-2007 | | GRI web portal improvements | | The GRI website navigation has recently been updated and presents clearer hierarchy and improved usability. The changes reflect the valuable user feedback that you have been providing over time.
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| 19-Jul-2007 | | Climate change reporting sheds light on emerging business opportunities | | The recently published joint KPMG and GRI research report on climate change, with its main goal of identifying how top companies report on the business risks and opportunities of climate change, was made available to the public on 17 July 2007. The recently published research, entitled “Reporting the Business Imp |
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| 19-Jul-2007 | | New GRI-certified training programme gets go-ahead in Brazil | |
14 July 2007 was a day of celebration for GRI’s Learning and Services area when the first Memo of Understanding (MoU) was signed by GRI and Brazilian association Associacao Brasileira de Comunicacao Empresarial (ABERJE), signalling the start of an international program and an important local partnership. ABERJE |
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GRI’s August Adventures | | On 8 August in Amsterdam Communications Director Alyson Slater will attend the Association of Management for Innovation workshop, whose aim is to enable participants to efficiently identify the human principles, policies, and processes required to sustain innovation within their companies. Alyson will speak about the w |
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| 19-Jul-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | The Organizational Stakeholder program is now 425 strong, drawn from 49 countries.
Congratulations to the following organizations that have joined the program this month:
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| 19-Jul-2007 | | 86 new reports this month | | Over 20 first time reporters join this month’s long list of newly issued reports. The geographical diversity is again evident in reporting organizations, which this month are drawn from countries as diverse as Cambodia, Portugal, France, Nicaragua, Luxemburg, USA, China, Peru and others.
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| 17-Jul-2007 | | Top European Commission officials meet GRI | | The contribution of GRI in improving business sustainability within Europe was outlined by Sir Mark Moody Stuart, a member of the GRI Board of Directors and chairman of Anglo American, when he met with Gunter Verheugen, the Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Enterprise and Industry, and Richard Howi |
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| 16-Jul-2007 | | G3 “cheat sheet” now available | | Covive, a US based design firm and a GRI Organizational Stakeholder (OS), has on their own initiative produced a two page quick reference sheet of the G3 |
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| 16-Jul-2007 | | G3 Guidelines released in Croatian | | Croatian 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 10.
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| 29-Jun-2007 | | Opinion paper released on supply chain transparency | | Transparency and sustainability are issues capturing the attention of many partners along the supply chain. On the supply-side, many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) find that the inclusion in a global supply chain is a reason to begin to engage in sustainability. Whilst for multinational enterprises (MNE̵ |
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| 21-Jun-2007 | | Input on Human Rights disclosures sought | | Human rights disclosures, and broader understanding of how organizations should handle human rights, are rapidly evolving areas. Globally, an important debate on this is very much underway; involving parties from all walks of life it is providing ever-growing clarity on organizations’ responsibility to managing a |
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| 21-Jun-2007 | | GRI in a city near you this July | | GRI Board Chair Mervyn King will address the plenary of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) Annual Conference to be held the first week of July in Cape Town. Ernst Ligteringe |
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| 21-Jun-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | Joining a 422 strong group, the following organizations are congratulated for joining the Organizational Stakeholder (OS) program.
Amongst the benefits of OS membership, these organizations are eligible to vote for t |
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| 08-Jun-2007 | | G8 Summit leaders encourage GRI reporting | |
In their annual summit, G8 members yesterday formally encouraged GRI reporting as a means to yield good governance and transparency and thereby achieve poverty reduction, conflict prevention, support sustainable investment decisions, and promote development in emerging economies.
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| 31-May-2007 | | Portuguese web pages online | |
Atendendo a demandas crescentes, a GRI está lançando um mcro-website em Língua Portuguesa! Coordenada por membros da rede, a processo de tradução deverá ser concluida nas próximas semanas! Hoje, o micro-website já conta com informações sobre a GRI, suas atividades, hi |
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| 31-May-2007 | | Podcast: Ernst Ligteringen on South African radio | |
Discussing conceptual topics related to sustainability reporting and transparency, Ernst Ligteringen (Chief Executive) was recently featured on South African radio. He spoke on 1485 Radio Today about how the world is changing and the way this demands new ways for organizations to report on their impacts; followed by |
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| 31-May-2007 | | Successful GRI network events in Stuttgart, Bratislavia, Toyko and Glasgow | |
From West to East, the GRI’s global outreach has been diverse this month. The annual EnviComm conference in Germany, Stuttgart played host the launch of the German-translated G3 Guidelines and second event for participants featuring a a detailed briefing on the G3 Guidelines; whilst Glasgow hosted one of the w |
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| 31-May-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | 418 organizations, from 48 countries, are now part of the Organizational Stakeholder (OS) program.
The latest organizations to subscribe to the program and demonstrate their commitment to transparency, accountability and sustai |
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| 31-May-2007 | | New reporters | | Since the G3 was launched, the monthly list of new reporters has usually included a wide range of Application Levels – and this month, every possible Application Level (C, B, A, and a “+” level at each) is represented! This demonstrates the flexibility with which organizations are using the G3. This m |
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| 26-Apr-2007 | | Podcast: What is XBRL, anyway? | | The latest addition to the podcast library features Sean Gilbert (Technical Director) talking to Debbie Dickinson (Communications Coordinator) about the basics of XBRL, who will find it useful, and XBRL’s potential for streamlining the communication of sustainability information. |
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| 26-Apr-2007 | | Opportunity for Senior Role at the GRI Secretariat | |
An accomplished and experienced Director of Operations is currently sought to provide day-to-day management of the Secretariat operations. The incumbent should have an advanced university degree in Business Administration, a prov |
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| 26-Apr-2007 | | Annual Review 2006 released | | Launching the G3, running a sell-out international conference on sustainability, establishing the Learning Services department, and releasing a new webportal as the face of GRI are some obvious highlights for the network in 2006.
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| 26-Apr-2007 | | Organizational Stakeholder News | | The 410 OS members continue to enjoy their membership benefits, including the eligibility to vote on Stakeholder Council rotations. If you want to have your voice heard in the SC-rotation process, and play a key role in the GRI’s multi-stakeholder governance (amongst considerable additional benefits) then you are |
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| 26-Apr-2007 | | Heading into the 1000+ reporters | | With over 1000+ declared reporting organizations, diversity of reporting is even more apparent.
This month’s new reporters represent a range of G3 reporters, including A and B reports, as well as those using ex |
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| 10-Apr-2007 | | Public Comment period closes | | Comments on the Electric Utility Sector Supplement have now closed. Early analysis suggests approximately 40-50 responses were received in the 90 day public comment period, which ran from early January until |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | New tool for data sharing: XBRL taxonomy for G3 released | | XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language and has been developed as a tool for digitally marking and transmitting financial information. XBRL essentially offers a way to “tag” data (quantitative or qualitative) so that it can be easily exchanged between computers, and automatically recognized a |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | Celebration! SME Handbook officially released | | The SME handbook is now officially launched and available for purchase in the e-shop! Be one of the first to get your hands on this exciting new publication – the first in a series from the GRI’s recently established Learning and Training Services. |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | Final call for public comments: EUSS | | Have your say in the final days of the public comment period for the Electric Utilities Sector Supplement.
The draft of the Electric Utilities Sector Supplement is currently in a public review process. Stakeholders f |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | Recent events: Croatia and Italy | | Only the second visit to Croatia by the GRI, the recent Croatian G3 event built on the interest gained in last year’s Sneak Peek and sets a strong precedent for future |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | GRI network rolls out across Europe and Asia | | Europe and Asia are the focus of upcoming events involving GRI. Check out the events calendar for more detail on the following, and other, events. Find out how you can get involved at a regio |
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| 29-Mar-2007 | | New reporters, new milestone, new search service | |
Celebration abounds as the world officially surpasses the 1000 GRI-reporters mark! Congratulations to all of the following new reporters, one of whom randomly takes particular glory of being the 1000th declared reporter.
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Special discount on new handbook for SMEs | | The inaugural publication from GRI's new Learning and Training program – “The GRI sustainability reporting process: A step-by-step handbook for small and not-so-small businesses and organizations” – is ready for launch. The step-by-step handbook provides expert advice on the whole SME sustainabi |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | G2 to G3 transition resources grow | | As the reporting season arrives, organizations are reminded they have two full reporting cycles to transition from the 2002 Guidelines (G2) to the G3 Guidelines (released October, 2006).
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Application Level checks now open for business | | All reports based on the G3 Guidelines must contain a declaration of the level to which they were applied. The Application Levels system was designed to demonstrate a pathway for incrementally developing, expanding, and deepening approaches to reporting over successive cycles. Report makers determine which Application |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Learning partners: final days of pre-selection | | The recent call for learning partners yielded an array of exciting and diverse applicants, the promise of an innovative future program and demonstrates the power of a global action network that is the GRI. As part of the Learning and Services program, the GRI recently called for organizations of ethical reputation and |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Biodiversity resource document released | |
Biodiversity is among the core G3 indicators, but also remains one of the most challenging areas for reporting. To support organizations as they monitor and manage their impact on biodiversity, the GRI has released a Biodiversi |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Your comments invited on Electric Utility Sector Supplement | | A multi-stakeholder working group has proposed a set of guidance and indicators for use by the electric utility sector when reporting on their sustainability performance. The group has paused its work to circulate their draft guidance widely for public comment. Download the proposed sector supplement and submit your co |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Create your own G3 content index online | | Did you know that the GRI web-portal allows you to create and customise your own G3 Content Index?
This handy online tool allows you to select the disclosures that you have reported on, enter their page number or UR |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | GRI Governance Bodies meet in Amsterdam | | Reflecting the global and multi-stakeholder nature of the Global Reporting Initiative, the organization has a very unique governance structure. The 16 member Board of Directors has the ultimate responsibility for the organization, but is advised on policy and strategic issues by a diverse Stakeholder Council (elected b |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Supply Chain project set to demonstrate power of collaboration | | Supply Chain transparency is one of the main reasons Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) begin to engage in sustainability reporting. In partnership with the GTZ, GRI is running a project designed to partner large multinationals with a handful of their suppliers, and support them in their reporting efforts, using the n |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | Alyson’s blog | | Alyson has been blogging about sustainability reporting practice and implications relating to everything from climate change, to small enterprises, to gender this month.
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | First 10 reports using G3 Application Level system | | The following organizations are congratulated for being amongst the world’s first 10 reports to use the Application Level system. The diversity of the reports demonstrates the flexibility of the Applications Levels. Each of the levels (C, B and A) and the optional assurance “+” level are included in t |
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| 28-Feb-2007 | | New Organizational Stakeholders this month | | Welcome to the following organizations that are demonstrating their commitment to accountability and providing invaluable support to the GRI by joining the Organizational Stakeholder (OS) program.
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| 31-Jan-2007 | | New OS this month | | Six new Organizational Stakeholders (OS) have joined in the past month, bringing total OS membership to 385, from 46 countries worldwide.
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | G3 Guidelines featured at Germany's annual EnviComm | | The G3 Guidelines are set for release in German at a high profile event in Stuttgart on April 25th. This special event is being held in conjunction with EnviComm 2007, the biggest conference around CSR communication in German-speaking countries. The organizers expect about 200 participants. Both events will feature hig |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | Two more G3-translations released | | Congratulations to the Hungarian and Korean networks for their newly-launched translations of the G3 Guidelines.
The releases mark a strong step towards enabling locally-specific transparency and improved management of sustaina |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | Is it about reporting or communicating? | | The Secretariat is always striving to improve its reporting guidance and supporting resources. We are currently undertaking some research on intended audiences for sustainability reports, and the communications channels that are used to reach them. If you are involved in your organization’s sustainability reporti |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | New investor-focused resources added to the portal | | Enthusiasm at all levels of the investment chain for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is currently booming. And so too is investors’ activity around the GRI.
New resources for investors – at all |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | New chairs for key governance bodies | | Dr. Mervyn E. King was recently inaugurated as Chair of the Board of Directors; and Paul Freundlich as Chair of the Stakeholder Council.
Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former judge of the Supreme Court of South |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | Secretariat-based vacancies | | The GRI is now recruiting dynamic and motivated individuals for its Amsterdam-based Secretariat.
The Fundraising Coordinator, Public Relations Coordinator and Receptionist will join the world’s biggest network of those a |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | Due to popular demand, Alyson is blogging again! | | In her role as GRI's Strategy and Communications Director, Alyson Slater is in the lucky position to read all sorts of envelope-pushing research from around the globe, attend cutting edge conferences, and meet a wide variety of experts in the GRI network. Logon to her blog twice a week to catch hightlights from these s |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | Transparency on the rise in China | | Sustainability reporting by the world’s fastest growing economy is on the rise, with further uptake and traction predicted for the future.
Recent research demonstrates a growing number of sustainability reporte |
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| 17-Jan-2007 | | New reporters this month | | 2007 begins with 959 reporters, from 60 countries, declaring their use of the GRI Reporting Framework in their reporting.
Congratulations to the latest 15 reporters:
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| 09-Jan-2007 | | Public Comment Period now open for Electricity Utility Sector Supplement | | Your feedback on how to improve the draft Electricity Utilities Sector Supplement (PDF) is now being invited until 9 April, 2007.
Access the online comment form to submit your feedback on the draft Electricity Utilities Sector Supplement. Do the proposed indicators respond to the needs of the sector and its stakeh |
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