Wednesday, May 22 2013
The opening day of the GRI conference was a love-fest for the GRI. We heard how important the G4 was, how timely the launch of the guidelines, how clever the GRI was in devising them in 2.5 years, how broad the scope of the stakeholder engagement, how hard everyone worked, how perilous our future was, [...]
Wednesday, May 22 2013
The GRI’s opening plenary included five speakers, none from business. It fell to Georg Kell from the Global Compact to defend business under a withering attack from Sharan Burrow, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation who called for legislation. How original. This exhausting two hour talking shop was a great [...]
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Ernst and Young’s 2013 survey looks at how companies are responding to a wide range of internal and external forces related to environmental sustainability risks, and how well companies are prepared to address them. They highlight six trends: The “tone from the top” is key to heightened awareness and preparedness for sustainability risks. Governments and [...]
Wednesday, May 22 2013
It’s all about materiality. G4, the much awaited guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have been partially revealed in closed sessions this morning in chilly Amsterdam. The G4 has not been officially launched yet, but the chatter is about social and environmental context – about HOW the company operates. That context is defined [...]
Tuesday, May 21 2013
What the world has been waiting for? Not quite, but the launch of the Global Reporting Initiative’s fourth generation guidelines (G4) on May 22 will change lives. We hope that it will make reporters’ lives easier and help them get home earlier to see their loved ones instead of struggling to jump through [...]
Tuesday, May 14 2013
The battle to spawn new names for sustainability is becoming unsustainable, says Peter T. Knight Ever since Gro Harlem Brundtland invented the notion of sustainable development, a coterie of commentators have spent their waking moments trying to devise something sexier that would be more easily understood by the masses: less frightening, more positive. A term [...]
Thursday, May 9 2013
The results of the annual Sustainability Leaders survey from Globescan and SustainAbility are out. They asked 1,170 qualified sustainability experts, unprompted, which companies they think are leaders in integrating sustainability into their business strategy. Congratulations to Context clients, Unilever (taking the top spot for the third year in a row) and Interface who made the top 10: [...]
Thursday, May 2 2013
Context client Centrica’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Performance Review sets out how the company is balancing what it coins the ‘energy trilemma’- the need to provide a secure supply of energy at affordable cost while moving towards a low carbon society. Highlights include increased customer satisfaction and clearer billing, insulation for around 670,000 homes – saving [...]
Wednesday, May 1 2013
Last weekend’s pursuit by shoppers for the $6 bikini neatly highlights the size of the chasm between consumer and corporate responsibility. As shoppers picked through the dirt cheap merchandise, some of the hands that made the garments lay trapped in the collapsed Bangladeshi building, home to the sweatshops producing cheap clothes for the wealthy West. [...]
Thursday, April 25 2013
Greenpeace has published its sixth annual Cool IT Leaderboard. Congratulations to Context clients, Cisco (jointly topping the list with Google), HP and Vodafone who made the top 10.
