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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.
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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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| 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.
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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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| 29-May-2009 | |
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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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