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| 09-Dec-2009 | | Interested in hosting a GRI Introductory Workshop? | | GRI is reviewing the demand from parties interested in disseminating the GRI mission by way of organizing introductory workshops within their local networks in 2010.
The GRI Introductory Workshops were developed to give participants a first general idea about the GRI reporting process and GRI projects and are facilit |
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| 09-Dec-2009 | | Let’s Report Template now available in Hebrew | | The Hebrew translation of the “Let’s Report!” template is out! 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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| 09-Dec-2009 | | The European Commission continues to explore ESG disclosure at workshops | |
The third of five EC Workshops on disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) information was held last week in Brussels, this time focusing on Civil Society and NGOS, consumers, and the media. Participants discussed not only civil society and consumer views on the current state of transparency and discl |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | Dutch CR Reporting Guidance now recommends GRI Guidelines | | On 24 November 2009 the Dutch Accounting Standards Board (DASB) published the reviewed Annual Reporting Guideline (the RJ-400) and its CSR supplement.
The RJ-400 provides information for Dutch Companies’ annual reporting practices, including relevant Dutch legal stipulations, international standards and court r |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | GRI involved in consultation on updating the OECD guidelines for MNEs | |
On Tuesday 8 December 2009, Teresa Fogelberg, GRI Deputy Chief Executive, participated in the OECD ‘Consultation on an update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises’. The consultation took place back-to-back with the 8th OECD Global Forum on International Investment at OECD headquarters in P |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | Oil and Gas pod casts available on YouTube | | GRI’s Oil & Gas Sector Supplement Working Group members speak about their involvement in developing GRI sector guidelines in podcasts that are now available on YouTube. These were recorded at the first Oil & Gas Sector Supplement Working Group meeting held in September this year and are available for all to view. |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | Project to review need for G3 updates relating to gender under preparation | | Following the recent launch of the joint GRI/IFC publication, Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner’s Guide’ – which provides ideas for advancing gender equality through sustainability reporting – the GRI governance bodies are reviewing the need for possible formal updates |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | Supply Chain Disclosure - Be part of a new GRI Working Group process | |
Supply chain reporting has been identified as a focus area for further development of the GRI reporting guidance. GRI is now calling for interested individuals to indicate their interest in forming part of the new Supply Chain Disclosure Working Group. The Supply Chain Disclosure Working Group will be asked to prop |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | GRI engages with the Indian construction and real estate sector | | On 18 November 2009, GRI held a one-day multi-stakeholder workshop in Mumbai in collaboration with Cognito and UNEP-FI in India on sustainability principles and reporting for the construction and real estate sector in the Indian context.
The workshop was organized to engage industry stakeholders in a dialogue on the |
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New GRI Data Partner - Korea Standards Association, Republic of Korea | | This month GRI has signed an agreement with Korea Standards Association (KSA) to become GRI’s newest data partner.
GRI has recently established partnerships with several online report repositories around the world. GRI and its partners are to share their information surrounding the release of new GRI reports |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | New call for Training Partners is out – UK/Republic of Ireland, Portugal, France, Italy, Netherlands/Belgium/Luxemburg, Greece and Turkey | |
GRI is now calling for Training Partners in UK/Republic of Ireland, Portugal, France, Italy, The Netherlands/Belgium/Luxemburg, Greece and Turkey.
The candidate-organizations must have an ethically sound reputation and experienc |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | |
GRI has certified two new training partners this month – first is SynTao Co., Ltd. - who is the first Certified Training Partner in the Chinese Speaking Countries. Specifically they are certified to offer the training in |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | 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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| 08-Dec-2009 | | GRI Focal Point India to be established from January 2010 | |
GRI is very pleased to announce that it has successfully recruited a country Director for the GRI Focal Point in India: Dr. Aditi Haldar.
The GRI Focal Point in India is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) – a German-based international cooperation enterprise for sustai |
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| 08-Dec-2009 | | New Secretariat staff | |
Over the past couple of months, several new names and faces have joined the GRI Secretariat team in Amsterdam.
The Learning Services Team has two new team members: Shivani Rajpal from India, who will be working with the Training Manager on the Certified Training Program; and Maggie Lee from Australia, a research |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | SEC increasingly shifts its policies to incorporate ESG concerns | | Many civil society organizations over the past year have been applying pressure on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to shift its policies on companies’ public disclosure requirements, particularly regarding to the incorporation of ESG concerns. In recent months, there have been several s |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | Top European investors meet to discuss sustainability disclosure | |
Investors, companies, and business and investor organizations met to discuss sustainability disclosure in Europe on Friday 30 October in Brussels at the second European Union Workshop on Disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Information. GRI is part of the core group of participants in the EU works |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | GRI Chief Executive advocates integrated reporting at BSR conference | |
GRI Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen called for “integrated reporting” at the 2009 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference in San Francisco. Ernst was, at the time, sharing a panel with BSR President and CEO, Aaron Cramer, and President of the Board for Ethos Institute and GRI Board Member, |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | GRI announces discounts and benefits for group delegations to 2010 conference | |
With the introduction of country and regional delegations, GRI hopes to emphasize the importance of understanding the local context within the global issues that are to be discussed and debated at the conference. Country and regional-specific delegations will provide an opportunity for organizations to showcase their |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | New data partner – KPMG Japan | |
This month GRI has signed an agreement with KPMG Japan to join as GRI’s latest data partner.
As mentioned in last month’s newsletter, GRI has recently established partnerships with several online repor |
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Sustainability reporting workshop for garment industry to be held in Hong Kong | |
GRI, Oxfam, BSR, the Clothing Industry Training Authority and SFBC are to host a corporate responsibility reporting workshop for the garment industry in Hong Kong on 27 November 2009. The garment manufacturers in Hong Kong often form part of the supply chain for large multinational apparel and footwear companies. The |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | Guidelines and ‘Let’s Report!’ Template now available in Turkish | |
The 24th translation of the GRI G3 Reporting Guidelines is now available – this time it’s Turkish. The Indicator Protocols are also under preparation now and will be launched shortly. The Turkish translation of the G3 Reporting Guidelines, as well as the easy-to-use Application Level C ‘Let’s |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | | GRI has certified one new Training Partner this month - ATUS Corporation, Korea – who will be offering training courses in Korea. GRI wishes them well with their upcoming programs.
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | New call for training partners opening soon! | |
GRI will shortly open a new call for training organization partners in: UK/Ireland, Portugal, France, Italy, Netherlands/Belgium/Luxemburg, Greece and Turkey. Stay tuned for more details about this call by keeping an eye on the GRI website.
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | |
GRI welcomes this month's new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the Organizational Stakeholder Program, please contact os@globalreporting.org.
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Fech Stud |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | Final results of GRI Stakeholder Council elections | |
On 7 October the GRI Stakeholder Council completed the process for the 2009 GRI Stakeholder Council elections. 15 candidates in total were appointed in the following constituencies: business, civil society and mediating institutions. |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | |
Congratulations Karin Ireton – new Stakeholder Council Chairperson from 2010 | |
In addition to the 15 new members, the GRI Stakeholder Council also has a new Chairperson. Karin Ireton, Director of the Sustainability Management Group of Standard Bank in South Africa has been elected to the role. Karin will start in post from 1 January 2010. Karin has been a member of the Stakeholder Council sinc |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | A new match is made with the GRI Matchmaker Program | |
In the words of the wise, 'two heads are better than one' and 'experience is the best teacher'. With these sayings in mind, the GRI Secretariat created the Matchmaker Program. The program is designed to provide reporting Organizational Stakeholders (OS) with critical feedback on their sustainability reports, and st |
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| 10-Nov-2009 | | Workshops in Beijing to highlight value of CSR activities | |
Sean Gilbert, China Director is working with the Chinese State Information Center to organize three workshops in Beijing, to be held between 24-26 November. These workshops represent the final of a series of three such workshops sets that have been conducted through a project funded in part by the Dutch government. T |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | GRI part of core group at European Commission ESG Disclosure Workshops | | On 18 September 2009, Teresa Fogelberg, GRI Deputy Chief Executive attended the first of a series of five workshops that are being convened by the European Commission Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General throughout 2009-2010. The workshops are meant to facilitate better coordination and communication between exi |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | King III unveiled in Johannesburg | | The Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoD) formally unveiled the King Code of Governance Principles and the King Report on Governance (King III) in Johannesburg on 1 September 2009. The namesake of the series of the so called ‘King’ Reports is of course Mervyn E. King, internationally recognized ex |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | GRI representatives visit DC to meet with Obama Administration appointees | | GRI representatives (Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive and Mike Wallace, Director of Sustainability Reporting Framework) last month spent a week in Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C. meeting with a variety of organizations to discuss these organizations perspectives on the development of ESG reporting. |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Application Level A to change in 2010 for Electric Utilities sector | | In May this year the Electric Utilities Sector Supplement was released. Following this release, the GRI Governance bodies decided that from 1 January 2010, in order to achieve a GRI Application Level A, companies from the electric utilities sector should produce their reports in alignment with the GRI Guidelines and r |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | GRI establishes global partnerships with online sustainability report databases | | GRI has recently established partnerships with several online data partners from around the world. GRI and the data partners are to share their information surrounding 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 publ |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Gender Project concludes with findings launched at CSR Asia Conference | |
The gender resource document, ‘Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting – A practitioner’s Guide’, that has been under development over the past year will be launched at the CSR Asia Conference on 27 October 2009. The resource document will be presented at the Gender Workshop that forms pa |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Russian translation of Let’s Report template now available! | | The Russian translation of the “Let’s Report!” template is now available to download from the GRI website! 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 |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Six supplier companies take GRI Supply Chain training in Portugal | | GRI recently held the initial 2-day supplier training session for selected EDP and PUMA suppliers in Portugal as part of the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain.
The training was a great success with representatives from six suppliers attending the training. The course was conducted by Paula Ca |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | |
GRI has certified four new Training Partners this month: KPMG ASZA Sustainability Co. Ltd., who will now be offering courses in Japan; KPMG Cárdenas Dosal S.C., who has now completed a certification process to offer courses in Hispanic Americas; Peru 2021: Una Nueva Vision, who will now be offering courses in Hi |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | |
New Organizational Stakeholders | |
GRI welcomes this month's new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the Organizational Stakeholder Program, please contact os@globalreporting.org.
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Advisory Council for Sustainability in Business
USA
bilanciarsi
Italy
Daxam Services
Sweden
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Wrap up of the Australian GRI Introductory Workshops | | The GRI introductory workshops held recently in Australia were highly successful and attended by nearly 200 participants at 8 sessions held across the country. The Australian Focal Point, Lena Geraghty, would like to recognize the contribution and time given by those organizations that hosted the events and those indiv |
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| 12-Oct-2009 | | Earth Charter Chairman, Ruud Lubbers, to speak at Club of Rome Global Assembly | |
In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Club of Rome will convene in Amsterdam on 26 and 27 October 2009 to discuss the climate, energy and economic recovery. The program of the open conference features many world class speakers - such as Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the Soviet |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | Save the date! CSR Asia Summit 27-28 October 2009 in Kuala Lumpur | |
The CSR Asia summit - an innovative and challenging conference on CSR – will take place from 27-28 October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the theme “Sustainable Business as the Road to Recovery”, the event will explore top CSR issues and strategies to demonstrate leadership in times of turbulenc |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | Your comments invited on Food Processing Sector Supplement | |
Now is the time to share your opinions on the final draft version of the GRI Food Processing Sector Supplement. The public comment period will close on 24 November 2009, so make sure to send us your comments in time. You can access the final draft here, and provide your feedback through this online survey. |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | |
GRI has certified one new Training Partner this month: the ISOS Group, LLC, who will now be offering courses in the USA. GRI wishes them well with their upcoming programs.
Click here to find out more about the GRI Certified Tra |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | |
GRI welcomes this month’s new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
Organization Name
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Ivan Idrovo Andrade
Ecuador |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | Technical Advisory Committee welcomes new member – Cheng Simeon Sing Hymn | |
The GRI Board of Directors recently approved Cheng Simeon Sing Hymn as the newest member of the GRI Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).Mr. Cheng is based in Hong Kong, where he is Group Environmental Manager at CLP Holding Limited. He brings a wealth of experience in the electric utilities sector, and having sat on |
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| 27-Aug-2009 | | Organizational Stakeholders – it’s time to vote! | |
Organizational Stakeholders should take advantage of their annual vote in GRI’s Stakeholder Council elections by voting now!
The Stakeholder Council is a diverse group of individuals representing different |
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| 04-Aug-2009 | | Request for proposals for Automotive Sector Supplement consultant | | GRI is launching a process to finalize the development of the existing Automotive Sector Supplement. The finalization will involve bringing the pilot version into line with the G3 Guidelines and creating full indicator protocols. Existing indicators will be adjusted, based on the experience of the reporters who have be |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | What is the G-192? | |
We all know what the G8 and the G20 are, but what is this ‘G192’ that has been causing a stir recently?
The recently coined label, the ‘G192’, refers to the 192 nations that make up the United Nations General Assembly - the only organ of the United Nations in which each member state has an eq |
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GRI recommended for organizations in a muddle over sustainability data | |
According to an Oracle-funded study by The Future Laboratory, corporations are beginning to focus on sustainability as a way of improving their business operations. They recognize that initiatives such as cutting air freight, promoting video conferencing and curbing energy use are easy-wins from a sustainability sta |
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New GRI Learning Publication for Level C reporters | |
The GRI Learning Services team is pleased to announce the launch of a new Learning Publication in the Pathways category. The new publication - Let’s Report! Step-by-step guidance to prepare a basic GRI sustainability report - is specially designed to assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the preparation |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | Swedish translation of GRI Learning Publication now available | |
The Swedish translation of the GRI Learning Publication, ‘The GRI sustainability reporting cycle: A handbook for small and not-so-small organizations’, which has been made possible by the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications (Näringsdepartementet), is now available from the E-sho |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | Let’s Report Template now available in Finnish | | The Finnish translation of the “Let’s Report!” template is coming soon! 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.
The template |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | A new milestone - 1000 participants of GRI Certified Training Program | |
A milestone has been reached during the past month with the thousandth participant having attended a GRI Certified Training Program. The courses are given by GRI Certified Training Partners based in different countries worldwide. The course aims to prepare participants to be able to coordinate the GRI - G3 sustainab |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | 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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| 03-Aug-2009 | | GRI welcomes Mike Wallace – new Director of Sustainability Reporting Framework | |
Mike Wallace, who has almost 20 years experience providing strategic advisory services to corporations, governments and NGOs seeking to develop sustainability initiatives, will commence working for GRI as the Director of Sustainability Reporting Framework from 1 September 2009. Mike is to be Sean Gilbert’s succ |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | Nominees are in for Stakeholder Council Election | |
On 15 May 2009, GRI called for nominations for new members of the GRI Stakeholder Council (SC) for a three year term commencing on 1 January 2010.
The Stakeholder Council of GRI is the democratically el |
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| 03-Aug-2009 | | Correction | |
Last month it was reported incorrectly that Ricardo Young Silva was the moderator at the ‘talk-show’ style Organizational Stakeholder meeting in held in Brazil on 15 June. It was in fact Ricardo Voltolini, President and Publisher of influential Brazilian magazine Ideia Socioambiental who moderated this en |
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| 30-Jun-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | | GRI has certified two Training Partners this month: the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability, who will now be offering courses in India; and Lead Canada, who has now |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | New GRI web exhibition – Solar power in Spain | |
This month, GRI’s web gallery is displaying freelance photographer Markel Redondo’s stunning photographs of solar energy plants in Spain, which are some of the largest in the world and provide clean energy to thousands of people. Markel’s images capture the abstract shapes of this technology in a tr |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | Call for Quality Control Consultants extended | | GRI has extended the Call for Quality Control Consultants in Hispanic Americas.
These consultants will be required to evaluate GRI Certified Training Programs by attending the training sessions and evaluating the quality of the p |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | Recommendations near final for Human Rights reporting guidance | |
The Working Group for the joint GRI/Realizing Rights/UN Global Compact Human Rights project that has been running since late 2008, met for the final time in May. The final recommendations from the Working Group will be completed over the summer and will culminate in a GRI Research and Development publication that wil |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | GRI exploring new focus areas for development | |
‘Ecosystem Services’, ‘Water’, and ‘Supply Chain’ are currently being considered as the likely focus areas for GRI in the coming year. These three areas are fast becoming crucial considerations for organizations concerned about their sustainability impacts the wor |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | Recruitment starts for Events Sector Supplement Working Group | |
GRI is now recruiting stakeholders to participate in the Working Group for the Events Sector Supplement project. Participating in Working Groups provides a great opportunity to get involved with GRI and to contribute to the development of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
Interested parties should conta |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | Opportunities for engagement | |
• Send in your case studies - for inclusion in a new Starting Points Learning Publication• Call for Quality Control Consultants Extended – GRI Certified Training Program • Try out the easy-to-use ‘Let’s Report!’ basic C level template • Register your GRI report to |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | |
GRI welcomes this months new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI. More…
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Associação Profissio |
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| 29-Jun-2009 | | Kumi Naidoo takes the helm at Greenpeace International | |
Greenpeace announced on 11 June 2009 that prominent African activist and GRI board member Kumi Naidoo is to become Executive Director of Greenpeace International. Kumi Naidoo, a South African national and former General Secretary of CIVICUS, will take over from Gerd Leipold in November 2009. |
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| 29-May-2009 | | World Environment Day theme urges new climate deal in Copenhagen | |
Commemorated yearly on 5 June, World Environment Day (WED) is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations aims to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment as well as political attention and action. The theme for WED this year is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. The th |
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| 29-May-2009 | | New GRI reporters | |
The list below reflects all new GRI Sustainability Reports that have come to our attention since the last newsletter. If your organization’s report has been missed, please send your report to alma@globalreporting.org and your organization’s name will be listed in the next newsletter.
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| 29-May-2009 | |
| 29-May-2009 | | Georgian translation of ‘Making the Connection’ | |
The invaluable publication ‘Making the Connection – The GRI Guidelines and the UNCG Communications on Progress’ that can assist reporters in discovering the synergies between the GRI Reporting Framework and the UNGC has now been translated into Georgian. The new Georgian translation is available to |
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| 29-May-2009 | | Calling on report preparers to share their experiences | |
As mentioned last month, the GRI Learning Services team is preparing a new publication for which it is seeking the help of interested parties to provide case studies.
Learning Services would like you to help answer the question |
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| 29-May-2009 | | Quality Control Consultants required in Hispanic Americas | |
GRI is looking for appropriate candidates to work with to evaluate GRI Certified Training Programs in Hispanic Americas. It is expected that the candidates applying to evaluate a training program in a given country or region, will also be based there (i.e. within Hispanic Americas). |
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| 29-May-2009 | | Opportunities to engage with GRI | |
Send in your case studies - for inclusion in a new Starting Points Learning Publication
Call for Quality Control Consultants – GRI Certified Training Program
First call is out for Training Partners in Nor |
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Farewell to Girish Ramachandran from GRI | |
GRI bids farewell to Girish Ramachandran - former Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Europe and old friend of GRI - who is heading back to his home country of India after seve |
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| 29-May-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this months new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
BOREAL Information Strategies (Borealis)-
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| 29-May-2009 | | Events | |
4 June - Seminar - Sustainability and the Management Practices on the Organizations, Oporto, Portugal, GRI re |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | PUMA and EDP first to join supply chain transparency network
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Sportlifestyle company PUMA recently became the first member of GRI’s Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (“The Network”). The purpose of The Network is for large companies to provide support to their Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) suppliers in measuring and reporting on th |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | GRI continues US outreach on West Coast
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Following on from a successful tour of the Eastern Seaboard in April, GRI's Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen and OS and Network Relations Manager Leontien Plugge are currently spending time engaging with different stakeholders on the West Coast of the United States. Between Monday 4th May and Friday 8th May, Ernst a |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | GRI partners with Amsterdam Sustainability Week | |
GRI is to participate in the upcoming Amsterdam Sustainability Week (Amsterdam Duurzaam) once again, which will coincide with World Environment Day (5 June – 6 June). GRI is one of the founding partners of Amsterdam Duurzaam, and has actively participated in the event since 2007. |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | New GRI reporters | |
The list below reflects all new GRI Sustainability Reports that have come to our attention since the last newsletter. If your organization’s report has been missed, please send your report to alma@globalreporting.org and your organization’s name will be listed in the next newsletter.
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | Polish translation of the G3 Guidelines now launched | |
The Polish translation of the G3 Guidelines was launched at event hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in April. The full set of the G3 Guidelines, (the Guidelines, the Application Levels and the Indicator Protocols) in Polish are available to download free from the GRI website. |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | Now available - Reporters’ Experiences | |
During February and March of 2008, in preparation for the Starting Points Learning Publication: ‘GRI Sustainability Reporting: How Valuable is the Journey?’, GRI collected testimonies fro |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | Opportunities to engage with GRI | |
· Send in your case studies for inclusion in a new Starting Points Learning Publication
· Call for Quality Control Consultants – GRI Certified Training Program |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | Annual GRI Stakeholder Council elections: call for nominations | |
As part of the annual GRI Stakeholder Council member rotation process, a call for nominations for new members will be released on 15 May 2009. All relevant information is available on the GRI website from that date (please refer to ‘What’s New’ section of GRI homepage). If you wis |
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | |
GRI welcomes this months new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
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| 29-Apr-2009 | | Events | |
· 14 May, CSR Conference, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CENSA), Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | 1999-2009 GRI Reports List goes live | | Interested in CSR reporting trends? GRI is pleased to present the GRI Reports List, which is now updated with all reports that have used the GRI Guidelines from 1999 until the present (NB: that have come to the attention of GRI). If you want to find out more about the reports in your region or sector, you can use the h |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | PRI Board issues statement on financial crisis | | In March, the Board of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) issued a statement on the financial crisis calling on investors to take responsibility for protecting their investments and ensuring that their agents act in their best interests. |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | New GRI reporters | |
The list below reflects all new GRI Sustainability Reports that have come to our attention since the last newsletter. If your organization’s report has been missed, please send your report to alma@globalreporting.org and |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | GRI to support development of training programs for SMEs | | GRI is currently developing and seeking to support SME reporting training programs. If you currently provide or are developing an SME training program and would like to add a GRI reporting component, contact GRI and we’ll see how we can help you. GRI has a rich experience in supporting SME sustainability reporti |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | New GRI-certified Training Partners | | Three organizations completed the certification process to become GRI Certified Training Partners over the past month. These include two from Hispanic-Speaking Americas: IDE Business |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | Call for Oil & Gas Sector Supplement Working Group Participation | | GRI is pleased to announce that it is proceeding with the Oil & Gas Sector Supplement development process. This Sector Supplement will be developed according to the typical GRI Working Group development process. This month GRI is recruiting stakeholders from civil society organizations for inclusion in the Working Grou |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | Mining and Metals Public Comment Period closing soon! | | The public comment period for the draft final version of the GRI Mining and Metals Sector Supplement will close on 29 April 2009.
GRI, the ICMM and the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement Working Group invite you to |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes this months new Organizational Stakeholders! To find out more about the OS program, please contact GRI.
brainbows - the information company
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | Opportunities to engage with GRI | |
· Send in your case studies for inclusion in a new Starting Points Learning Publication
· Call for Quality Control Consultants – GRI Certified Training Program
· First ca |
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| 31-Mar-2009 | | Outreach | | In April GRI representatives travel all over the world to host, speak, and attend events. This month’s highlights include:
On 7 April GRI hosts the Human Rights Reporting workshop in |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | International Women’s Day prompts reflection on gender roles | | This coming Sunday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Each year, throughout the month of March, hundreds of events are held around the world to celebrate the achievements of women in the economic, political and social spheres of life. Whilst the theme for the day is always flexible for any country or organiz |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | New GRI reports this month | | The list below reflects all new GRI Sustainability Reports that have come to our attention since the last newsletter. If your organization’s report has been missed, please go ahead and send in your details and your report to alma@globalreporting.org and your organization’s name will be listed in the next ne |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Community Indicators released for Public Comment | | Over the past year, a GRI Working Group has been reviewing how the G3 Community Indicators are being used and how they could be improved. Now, the proposed revisions are available for public comment. GRI invites comments from interested parties on these amendments. All comments will be reviewed by the Working Group pri |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Human Rights Project workshop to be held in Argentina | |
An open workshop for the The GRI/Realizing Rights/UNGC project, “Human rights – A call to action”, which aims to foster greater integration of human rights principles into corporate sustainability reporting, is to be held on April 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following on from the |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Voice your ideas on Gender and Reporting | | What topics do you think are important for reporting on gender? If you’re a reporting company what do you currently report on? What are your suggestions for performance measurement on gender? Have your say by filling in this survey! Please feel free to forward this invitation to relevant people within your netw |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Let’s Report! template – more translations! | | The “Let’s Report!” template is now available in French, Korean and Georgian. The document shows what a basic GRI report should contain, based on the requirements in the GRI G3 Guidelines for an Application Level C report and provides an easy template for an organization to complete in order to produc |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | New Certified Training Partners | | Several new training partners received GRI Certification in various corners of the world over the past month. These include Lavola from Spain, Neuvaction from |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Special training for SMEs? | | GRI is interested to find out the extent of the demand for training programs for SMEs around the world. If you are planning any training on sustainability reporting for SMEs or if you know an organization that might be interested in such a training program, please contact smeandsupplychain@globalreporting.org. |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Oil firms come together to improve sustainability reporting | | Five international oil companies are to help craft new guidance for measuring and disclosing their economic, environmental and social impacts. Amerada Hess (USA), BP (UK), ENI (Italy), Shell (UK) and StatoilHydro (Norway) have come together with GRI to devise guidance on sustainability reporting for all companies in th |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Research paper for the Airports Sector released | | GRI has recently released A Snapshot of Sustainability Reporting in the Airports Sector (PDF), a short report summarizing the issues and most commonly used indicators in airports sector sustainability reports. The findings from this report will feed into the multi-stakeholder Working Group meetings for the Airports Sec |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Opportunities to engage with GRI | |
· Get involved in the development of the Media Sector Supplement
· Give your feedback on the proposed revisions to the Community Indicators
· Sign up to be involved in the Oil |
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| 04-Mar-2009 | | Outreach | |
This week GRI hosted its second Governmental Advisory Group meeting in the Secretariat office in Amsterdam, which will see members from 11 different cou |
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| 28-Jan-2009 | | Editor’s Letter | | The GRI Secretariat would like to introduce a new key member of our staff: Kerstin Diegel joined GRI in December 2008 as GRI’s Director – Marketing & Network Relations. |
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| 28-Jan-2009 | | Norway publishes White Paper on CSR | |
The Norwegian government has launched its first national white paper on corporate social responsibility in a globalised economy.
The white paper clarifies the responsibility companies have regarding public reporting on sustaina |
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| 28-Jan-2009 | | New Danish law requires CSR disclosure | | The Danish government has launched a new initiative to further embed CSR into the nation’s business operations. A new law - passed on 16 December 2008 – mandates the 1100 largest companies, listed companies, state-owned companies and institutional investors to report on their work with CSR. The law has a "r |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | GRI gets down to business in Australia | |
Despite being the summer holiday period in Australia, a lot of progress has been made in connecting with GRI’s Australian network since the foundations were laid for the establishment of a GRI Focal Point at the St James Ethics Centre (SJEC) in Sydney last October (2008). |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | New GRI Reports this month | | The list below reflects all new GRI Sustainability Reports that have come to our attention since the last newsletter. If your organization’s report has been missed, please go ahead and send in your details and your report to alma@globalreporting.org and your organization’s name will be listed in the next ne |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | GRI/IFC Gender & Reporting Project embraces Web 2.0 | |
The year-long, joint GRI/IFC Gender and Reporting Project is engaging with stakeholders around the world by utilizing the existing OECD “Wikigender” platform as a means to collaborate with others and to generate knowledge around the issues under discussion during the project.
“Wikis” are |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | The Czech translation of the GRI Guidelines is ready for use! | | Good news for reporters in the Czech Republic! The full set of the of the G3 Guidelines, (the Guidelines, the Application Levels and the Indicator Protocols) have now been translated into the Czech language and are available to download free from the GRI website. Click here to go to the Czech translation page. Bookmark |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | |
More GRI Learning Publications available in Spanish | |
This month will see the GRI Learning Publications, “GRI Sustainability Reporting: A common language for a common future” and “GRI Sustainability Reporting: How valuable is the journey?” available in Spanish from the E-shop on the GRI website. This will mean that the complete set of existing G |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | Let’s report in Slovak! | |
The “Let’s Report” template, offering an easy way for organizations to prepare a basic Level C GRI sustainability report, is now available to download in Slovak. The template was prepared to show exactly what a basic GRI report should contain, and is based on the requirements in the GRI G3 Guideline |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | SMEs and Supply Chain training and support programs | |
GRI is looking for large companies interested in bringing transparency, not to mention better management skills on sustainability issues, to their supply chain through the GRI reporting process. If you are a representative of a large |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | Mining & Metals Sector Supplement public comment period starting this month | |
Over the last few months, the Mining & Metals Sector Supplement Working Group has been working hard on drafting the final version of the supplement. The Final version will be a progression of the 2006 pilot version, and includes protocols that have been designed to support the indicators in line with the G3 format. I |
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI Welcomes this month’s new OS!
Albemarle Corporation
United States of America
Alternate Kft.
Hungary
Banco Bradesco S.A.
Brazil
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| 27-Jan-2009 | | Outreach | | GRI Secretariat staff are starting the New Year by getting straight back on the road, speaking at events, holding workshops and meeting with the GRI Organizational Stakeholders.
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