Transparency

What kind of reporting challenges does a conglomerate face when planning and executing a sustainability report? We interviewed Mark Harper, Sustainable Development Manager at Swire Pacific, about the challenges and benefits a conglomerate faces with their reporting process.​

Bechtel summarizes their 2017 Sustainability Report.

GRI’s new Benchmarking Service helps you to understand how your reporting compares to what your peers are doing in your industry, country and region, and is a useful tool to showcase the ROI of sustainability reporting.

We’ve just published a year-end recap of our corporate responsibility efforts at Wendy’s. Having now done this twice, it’s fair to say this is a practice we will follow on at least an annual basis. It was a busy year with encouraging progress on several fronts, and we spent a lot of time working on sustainable food issues related to the livestock in our supply chain.

Today, The Wendy's Company released its annual update on the strides made to further Wendy's® Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives related to its Food, Family and Community strategy.

When companies use the GRI Standards for their sustainability reporting, they assess their positive and negative impacts on economic, environmental and social issues, including human rights, and are transparent about the results. Transparency makes human rights information available, empowering NGOs and other stakeholders to hold companies accountable and provide access to remedy.

Corporate social responsibility efforts in Asia Pacific are on the rise, driven by new regulatory regimes and investor demand for sustainability data. This, and a report from GRI's Regional Hub US and Canada, are two of the topics of the GRI podcast: Beyond reports in December.

NRG has joined the ranks of the CDP Water A-list, announced October 25, affirming our measurable corporate progress toward water stewardship. Only 14 U.S. companies are part of the list, and no other U.S. company in the “utilities” category (in which NRG is found) scored as high.

An independent stakeholder viewpoint from Professor Dr Heiko Hosomi Spitzeck on British American Tobacco's Sustainable Agriculture & Farmer Livelihoods Focus Report.