ESG Talk: Finding your ESG Superpower. Photo of Si-Yeon Kim.

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Finding Your ESG Superpower

This week on ESG Talk, we’re reaching back into the vault to share one of our most popular episodes from season one. Si-Yeon Kim, former chief risk and compliance officer and executive chair of ESG at American Express Global Business Travel, joins Workiva's Mandi McReynolds.

ESG

Finding Your ESG Superpower

Workiva

ESG

How ESG Strategy Creates an Advantage for Startups

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Sustainable Development Goals

Empowering Indonesia's SDGs Progress Through Corporate Reporting

GRI

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Astellas Named a Best Place to Work for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equality for Fourth Consecutive Year

For the fourth consecutive year, Astellas has achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The 2018 CEI evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. Astellas’ efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria again resulted in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Case for Hiring Veterans

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Sustainable Development Goals

How Companies Can Help Solve Global Problems: a Conversation With Alice Korngold, CEO of Korngold Consulting

We talk with Alice Korngold (@alicekorngold), President and CEO of Korngold Consulting, about trends in collaboration across the social good sector. Alice is the author of a few highly acclaimed books on board governance, service, and global problem solving. Alice discusses the do’s and don’ts of nonprofit board membership, the trajectory of collaboration between corporations and nonprofits in the last 30 years, and how the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals have influenced collaboration between businesses and nonprofits.

Health & Healthcare

Case Study: Improving Workplace Conditions a Vital Component of Social Responsibility

Humantech Inc. specializes in industrial engineering, bio-mechanics and occupational ergonomics, and helps Fortune 1000 companies identify and quantify injury risk in the workplace. We spoke with their President, James Good, who told us examples of major savings gained by improving workplace conditions. ​

Sustainable Development Goals

Reporting on the SDGs: Measuring Today’s Contributions and Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders

GRI is strengthening the contribution of the private sector to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by helping make reporting on them more comparable, encouraging private sector engagement and supporting collaboration between business and academia to prepare the next generation of sustainability leaders. ​Read about recent SDG related events here.

Environment

GRI November Podcast Out

With the UN Climate Change Conference COP23 taking place in Germany early November, this month's GRI podcast features an interview with Munich Airport telling about their innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We also have a report from our Regional Hub China, and a round-up of the latest sustainability news.

Research, Reports & Publications

Case Study: Sustainability Reporting Creates a Virtuous Circle

The French-based e-payment services company Wordline started sustainability reporting in 2014, and is now one of the pioneers to publish a GRI Standards report. We interviewed Sébastien Mandron, Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at Worldline, about how sustainability reporting helps the company enhance trust with its stakeholders. ​

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

One Year of the GRI Standards: in Numbers

​Launched in October 2016, the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are the world's first global standards for disclosing ESG performance. The GRI Standards replace the G4 Guidelines, which will be phased out by 30 June 2018. Here's a recap of what has happened since the launch last year.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Video: GRI Standards One Year On

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released the first global standards for sustainability reporting a year ago. In this video, GRI Chief of Standards Bastian Buck speaks about the uptake of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, one year after their release.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Case Study: Sustainability Reporting Driving All-Round Improvement

Sustainability reporting has a foundational role in how Codelco, a Chilean mining company, conducts business. We interviewed Paul Maidstone, Corporate Director, Environmental Compliance at Codelco, who is convinced of the power of non-financial reporting in the development of companies, countries and regions.

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