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| 21-aug-2008 | | Sustainable cities – A concept gaining momentum | | In an era where more than half of the world’s population is living in urban areas (UN State of World Population 2007), it is clear that, for sustainable development to take root globally, cities have a crucial role to play. Aside from the sheer numbers of urban-dwellers, other factors such as climate change, food |
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| 21-aug-2008 | | GRI Certified Training Program – Global Expansion Continues | | GRI is making headway in its objective to make the Certified Training Program accessible across the globe, and will announce a new ‘Call for Training Partners’ in September. Included in this new call will be regions and countries such as Europe, |
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| 21-aug-2008 | | Breaking it down - Greenhouse Gas Segmentation project | | GRI is planning to collaborate with WRI and CDP in the near future to look at ways of improving the transparency of Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting within sustainability reports. This project aims to establish common expectations on segmentation of GHG emissions: to help organizations to keep up with the dema |
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| 21-aug-2008 | | Progress on the Community Indicators | | The Community Indicators Working Group met in early July to develop its recommendations on how to improve the Guidelines’ approach to reporting on community performance. The recommendations will be posted later in 2008 for public comment prior to being finalized and forwarded to the GRI Stakeholder Council and Bo |
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| 21-aug-2008 | | August Outreach | |
In late July, Nelmara Arbex, GRI Director of Learning Services, was a keynote speaker at the Society is Our Business conference in Kuala Lumpur. More recently, Nelmara ha |
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| 21-aug-2008 | | New Organizational Stakeholders | | GRI welcomes the new Organizational Stakeholders that have joined the program over the past couple of months. With OS from over 50 different countries, this really is a Global Reporting Initiative!
The organizations are:
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| 18-jul-2008 | | Stakeholder Council Elections – the nominations are in! | |
The deadline for nominations of Stakeholder Council members for the upcoming term has now passed. Forty nominations were made for a total of ten available places, ensuring an exciting election ahead. GRI would like to remind readers that interested parties who join the Organizational Stakeholder program before 25 Au |
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| 18-jul-2008 | | Summer at the Secretariat | | Over the past couple of months, the GRI Secretariat has bid farewell to some of its longest-standing staff members, including Damir Dragicevic, Naoko Kubo, Alyson Slate |
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| 18-jul-2008 | | A fresh look at “Community” | |
The GRI Board of Directors recently requested the Secretariat to form a working group to review the Community indicators of the G3 Guidelines. The Working Group met in Washington |
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| 18-jul-2008 | | G3 Guidelines now available in Japanese | |
The Japanese translation of the G3 Guidelines is the latest to join the growing list of different translations available to download from the GRI website. With |
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| 18-jul-2008 | | GRI launches Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain | |
GRI is launching an exciting new program: the GRI Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain. This new Action Network is based on the success of our current project ‘Transparency in the Supply Chain’. The central proposal of the Global Action Network is for multinational companies to pr |
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| 18-jul-2008 | | The new editor on the block | | Welcome to the first GRI Newsletter compiled by yours truly, GRI’s incoming Communications Coordinator, Sarah Billens-Smith. Katherine Miles, the outgoing editor, has made an exciting move |
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| 20-jun-2008 | | Mid-year journeys for GRI | | Despite the onset of summer, GRI staff continue to travel to all corners of the world to promote sustainability reporting. June has seen Ernst Ligteringen, GRI Chief Executive, in |
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| 19-jun-2008 | | GRI to make a splash - seafood sector workshops around the world | | As a continuation of the development of the GRI Food Processing Sector Supplement, the Seafood Choices Alliance is organizing several GRI workshops to engage the seafood sector and to share with them the advantages of sustainability reporting. Input will also be sought from participants on the Food Processing Sector Su |
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| 19-jun-2008 | | GRI’s Biodiversity reporting resource now available in Japanese | | Biodiversity is among the core G3 indicators, but is a challenging area for reporting. In January 2007 GRI produced a resource document entitled Biodiversity – a GRI reporting resource to help reporters tackle this issue. Now this important publication is available in Japanese with thanks to Sustainability Forum |
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| 19-jun-2008 | | New 2008 GRI sustainability reports database online | | Find out which organizations have published GRI reports so far during 2008 by viewing the online database of reporters via the GRI website. It’s possible to sort the information by the name of the reporting organization, the report title and publication year, the GRI adherence level, as well as the country, secto |
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| 19-jun-2008 | | Get on board with GRI's Airports Sector Supplement | | A Practitioners’ Network is currently being formed for those who wish to get involved in the design of the GRI Airports Sector Supplement. If you want to have you say on the draft supplement, and also be available as external resource for the Sector Supplement Working Group, now is your opportunity. |
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| 19-jun-2008 | | Reminder Stakeholder Council: Call for nominations | | As part of the annual GRI Stakeholder Council members’ rotation process a call for nominations for GRI’s Stakeholder Council is open. Interested parties have until 11 July 2008 to send in their nominations. All relevant information is available on the GRI website. If you wish to apply, please ensure you sub |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Podcasts of all conference sessions now online | | Perhaps you were in one of the main arena debates and so missed one of the parallel sessions or the chance to sit in on the academic conference? Maybe you just want the opportunity to listen again to the engaging and inspirational presentations and discussion that took place over the 3 day Amsterdam Global Conference o |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Conference in Review | | The second Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency co-hosted by GRI and the City of Amsterdam proved to be a spectacular and memorable event. This cli |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | GRI announces winners of inaugural Readers’ Choice Awards | | The winners of the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards for sustainability reporting were announced at the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. The winning reports, as selected by readers in eight categories, were as follows: |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | BBC World Debate: How Accountable is business? | | In a first for GRI, a BBC World Debate was filmed at the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. The program was broadcast internationally seven times on BBC World News, over the weekend of 17 – 18 May 2008. |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Boarding-call for the GRI Airports Sector Supplement | | As air traffic increases each year, getting people to and from their respective destinations while keeping sustainability impacts low presents a major challenge for airports around the globe but one that is foremost on their radar screens. |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Get Involved in a North American Regional Workshop on Community Indicators | | Communities represent one of the key stakeholders for any organization seeking to assess its impacts on and contributions to sustainable development. Ways to go about reporting community performance, however, are not immediately obvious, and reporting on community impacts still remains weak and unsatisfactory to many s |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Brazilian Journalists to receive GRI training | | GRI training partner ABERJE is offering the GRI certified training course for journalists based in 5 Brazilian cities, courtesy of the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura. With Natura’s support journalists from B |
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| 22-mei-2008 | | Stakeholder Council: Call for nominations | | A call for nominations for GRI’s Stakeholder Council opened on 19 May 2008 as part of the annual GRI Stakeholder Council members’ rotation process. Interested parties can send in their nominations until 11 July. All relevant information is available on the GRI website. If you wish to prepare your applicatio |
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| 21-mei-2008 | | GRI Organizational Stakeholders meet in Amsterdam | | The first ever Organizational Stakeholder (OS) General Assembly was held on the opening day of The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. Around 250 OS attended this event and engaged in dialogue with a panel comprised of GRI’s Chair Mervin King, Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen and Paul |
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| 21-mei-2008 | | GRI Outreach this June | | With the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency over, GRI Secretariat staff are once again back on the road promoting GRI and sustainability reporting around the world.
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| 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.
What is RSS?
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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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| 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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.
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| 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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