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| 12-mei-2008 | |
| 24-apr-2008 | | Meeting in May – the GRI Network
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The GRI Secretariat is hosting the second ever coming together of the GRI network this month. The highly anticipated Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency will bring together representatives of the whole |
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| 24-apr-2008 | | April Adventures for GRI | | Most of the GRI Secretariat staff have been busy preparing for the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency and so have been staying closer to home. Nonetheless, over the last month GRI has conducted some limited outreach. Sector Supplement Project Manager Maaike Fleur travelled to |
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| 24-apr-2008 | | Organizational Stakeholders meet in Amsterdam | |
The first ever Organizational Stakeholder General Assembly will be held on the morning of the first day of the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency in the Grand Ballroom at Hotel Okura. Questions rais |
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| 24-apr-2008 | | Stakeholder Council: Call for nominations | | The annual GRI Stakeholder Council members’ rotation process will start with an open call for nominations on 19 May 2008 - interested parties can send in their nominations until 11 July. All relevant information will be posted on the GRI website in the week commencing 12 May. If you wish to prepare your applicati |
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| 24-apr-2008 | | Transparency in the Supply Chain Resource Document to be Released | | A review document compiling feedback gathered from buyers, suppliers and participating consultants during the first year of the GRI/GTZ Transparency in the supply chain project will be released at The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. |
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| 24-apr-2008 | | Climate change and political giving top 2008 U.S. shareholder concerns | | The investor community is one of GRI’s key stakeholder groups and the GRI Guidelines have an essential role to play in ensuring that there is consistent and reliable information on sustainability performance available to shareholders. For this reason GRI has invited, Heidi Welsh from the financial research provid |
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| 18-apr-2008 | | GRI News Delivered to your desktop | | GRI’s latest news page is now RSS enabled. Add the GRI website to your RSS feed today to get GRI news delivered directly to your desktop.
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | The Transparency in the supply chain project reaches its half way point | | The midterm conference on 1 February 2008 marked the completion of the first year of the GRI/GTZ Transparency in the Supply Chain Project. Ten out of twelve participating suppliers completed their sustainability reports and six joined their clients, the trainers and GRI representatives at GTZ Headquarters in |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | Labor practices top the list of human rights reporting topics | | Companies need to go further in including quantifiable information about human rights in their sustainability reports, concluded a survey on corporate human rights reporting just released by GRI and the Roberts Environmental Center (a research institute at Claremont McKenna College). The survey, based on information p |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | Keep an eye out for the next GRI Learning Publications launches | | Two new GRI Learning Publication titles are on the horizon, only one year after the launch of the first Learning Publication-Pathways, The GRI Sustainability Reporting Cycle: a handbook for small and not-so-small organizations - a step by step guide on how to prepare a GRI-G3 report. |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | GRI Report Registration– latest developments | | Starting from 1 January 2008 GRI ceased to collaborate with CorporateRegister.com on its database of GRI reports. GRI is currently considering how it can best contribute to a comprehensive sustainability reporting portal available for all users and all known GRI reporters will be informed of progress as soon as possibl |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | Application level checking services – a brief update | | At the one-year anniversary of the Application Level Check service, some improvements have been identified that need to made to the service and checking methodology. Please read the updated FAQs on the GRI website for further clarification on how checks will be conducted in 2008. Please feel free to contact the GRI Rep |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | What do you think about Application Levels? | | Take this chance to give your feedback on Applications Levels by participating in a brief survey between now and 4 April 2008.
The Application Level system was introduced in response to feedback by the public that r |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | Reporting once again under the spotlight in Brussels | | After comprehensive legal research and by advancing some of the European Parliaments’ recommendations of its resolution on CSR, The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) together with MEPs, lawyers, and representatives from civil society, will present a range of proposals that aim at strengthening EU le |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | GRI outreach in April
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Both the Food Processing and NGO Sector Supplement Working Groups will be meeting this April in Switzerland |
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| 27-mrt-2008 | | New Organizational Stakeholders this March | | Every month the number of participants in GRI’s Organizational Stakeholder program increase. Another 21 Organizational Stakeholders joined this month. If you weren’t aware already, Organizational Stakeholders are entitled to significantly reduced rates on registration for the Amsterdam Global Conference on |
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| 29-feb-2008 | |
| 28-feb-2008 | | Coalition of investors call for more disclosure in emerging markets | | Signatories representing $650 billion assets under management have signed up to a statement which asks emerging market companies for improved sustainability disclosure. The coalition made up of investment managers, institutional asset owners and NGOs has been organized by SIRAN (Social Investment Research Analyst Netwo |
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| 28-feb-2008 | |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | First GRI certified training takes place in Brazil | | UniEthos, GRI’s certified training partner in Brazil, in collaboration with Center for Sustainability of Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGVCes) and Business and Social Development Brazil (BSD), has run the first ever GRI certified training courses this month. In total 30 participants took part in the two session |
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| 28-feb-2008 | |
| 28-feb-2008 | | Driving forward with the Automotive Sector Supplement | | Four years after the release of the Pilot Version of the Automotive Sector Supplement, GRI and UNEP are exploring the possibility to progress this Sector Supplement to a Final Version. A multi-stakeholder working group would review the use of the Sector Supplement, bring it up-to-date with the G3 Guidelines and develop |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | G3 Community indicators to be revised | | A diverse group of stakeholders from different countries are to participate in a Working Group to revise the existing G3 Community Indicators. The group will draw on the findings from the survey on current practices in reporting on community impacts which was conducted by GRI, The University of Hong Kong and CSR Asia e |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | GRI’s sustainability performance - what do you think? | | At the beginning of the year GRI launched its second ever sustainability report based on economic, environmental and social performance for the period from July 2004 until June 2007. The second such report produced by GRI follows the G3 Guidelines and the structure recommended in the GRI publication, The GRI sustainabi |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | New York, Eschborn and São Paulo - last month’s GRI outreach | | The halfway point of the GTZ and GRI “Transparency in the Supply Chain” project was marked by a mid term conference held in Eschborn in early February 2008. GRI’s Learning and Services Director, Nelmara Arbex and SME and Supply Chain Program Manager Leontien Plugge attended the event along with proje |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | GRI outreach in March | | In the lead up to the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency in May, the GRI Secretariat are restricting their outreach program as they prepare for the international sustainability networking event of the year. Nonetheless, several GRI Secretariat members will be “on the road”. |
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| 28-feb-2008 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI has welcomed a new group of Organizational Stakeholders this month. They include:
Instituto Creditar Para Educação social e ambiental ltda
Sustainability Excellence |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | The relevance of sustainability reporting for NGOs | | GRI has just released its second ever sustainability report based on sustainability performance for the period from July 2004 until June 2007. On the occasion of its release and since GRI is a non-governmental organization (NGO) this is perhaps a good opportunity to look at the question of what is the relevance of sust |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | BBC World debates transparency and sustainability reporting | | An interactive BBC World Debate moderated by Nik Gowing of BBC World Television and broadcast globally on BBC World will be hosted by GRI at The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. As opinion leaders and experts in this field gather in |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | Sustainability reporting plays a part in The World in 2008 | | GRI received a positive mention in The Economist’s annual publication reviewing the year ahead. The article entitled Sustainable Maths in The World in 2008, argues that in the near future more pressure will be placed on businesses to disclose their impacts and also get their sustainability reports verified. It a |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | Wanted: Public comment on the AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) | | Using a collaborative wiki-platform, AccountAbility has begun the process of revising their international non-financial assurance standard. AccountAbility has chosen to use a collaborative wiki drafting process in order to address the key issues of transparency and accessibility. Not only will the wiki-platform increas |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | GRI reporter Rabobank tops Dutch transparency benchmark | | In a national Transparency Benchmark for 2007 conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Dutch bank Rabobank was found to be the most transparent company with regards to its corporate social responsibility practices. |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | Extracting your opinion on the Mining & Metals Sector Supplement | | It is almost three years since the development of the pilot version of the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement. The International Council for Mining and Metals (ICMM) and GRI are curious to learn your opinions and experience with its use. You are invited to express your opinion in a brief survey and input from the sur |
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| 25-jan-2008 | |
| 25-jan-2008 | | G3 Guidelines –now finalized in French | | The long awaited French version of the GRI G3 Guidelines was launched at a G3 briefing hosted by Gaz de France in Paris on 14 January 2008. Teresa Fogelberg and Jacequeline |
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| 25-jan-2008 | |
| 25-jan-2008 | | Online Registration of Reports | | Over the last year, GRI has maintained a link on its site to CorporateRegister.com Limited (CR) where a register of reports prepared using the GRI guidelines has been maintained. From 1 January 2008 this site will be operating solely under CR’s management, including the process for uploading of reports. If you ha |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | Rotation of GRI governance body members- 1 January 2008 | | Mr. Roger Adams and Sir Mark Moody-Stuart both concluded their second terms on the GRI Board of Directors and stepped down at the end of 2007 and the following new members joined the Board of Directors on 1 January 2008:
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| 25-jan-2008 | |
| 25-jan-2008 | | Highlights of February’s Outreach | | At the turn of the month, on 30 January 2008 GRI Associate Director Ralph Thurm will be in Dubai for a CSR Reporting and Networking Event organized by the Dubai Chamber Cent |
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| 25-jan-2008 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI now has approximately 470 Organizational Stakeholders from 50 countries who demonstrate their commitment to transparency, accountability and sustainable development by supporting GRI’s work.
Welcome to the |
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| 17-jan-2008 | |
| 08-jan-2008 | | GRI’s sustainability report now available | | Based on sustainability performance for the period from July 2004 until June 2007, the latest GRI sustainability report has just been published online in PDF form. The second such report produced by GRI follows the G3 Guidelines and the structure recommended in the GRI publication, The GRI sustainability reporting cycl |
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