Tag: Global Reporting Initiative
Big investors engage with firms over biodiversity loss
Major project seeks to improve corporate reporting on material investment risks to nature and boost environmental responsibility.
One key move that will boost corporate sustainability
An efficient mechanism for hearing complaints and redressing grievances is a powerful tool for governance and human rights due diligence.
Manufacturers increase ESG commitment
A rising proportion of the UK’s makers are setting sustainability targets, but find it difficult to assess their suppliers’ ESG progress.
Amazon shareholders call for tax transparency
Investors want Amazon to use the Global Reporting Initiative’s Tax Standard to disclose its tax arrangements.
Narrow sustainability reporting boundaries ‘can amount to greenwashing’
Researchers found 72% of FTSE 100 sustainability reports limited the activities reported on or used illustrative examples to suggest wider compliance.
‘Single all-encompassing framework’ needed for sustainability reporting
Research by the Better Alignment Project highlights confusion over differing sustainability reporting frameworks and the language and taxonomy they use.
Corporate commitment to ESG principles will survive Trump
US corporate integration of ESG principles unlikely to be challenged by a Trump presidency because progress made so far has come without the need for legislation that could be repealed.