The Future of Sustainability Reports
You know when you’re in awards season in the film industry. Everyone seems to be handing out trophies, statuettes and gongs. Paparazzi snap away at gleaming white teeth while fashionistas obsess over the width of stars’ shoulder straps.
After a while the endless cycle of red carpets and acceptance speeches starts to get a little draining and you can end up wishing that Hollywood would crawl back under its habitual rock on the other side of the pond.
Sustainability Reporting is starting to establish a similar annual love in.
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Chris Milton and filed under Best Practices, Corporate social responsibility | Leave a Comment
Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability AA1000 Series — A Brief Overview
Isn’t it wonderful how punnets of soft fruit appear on the shelves every summer? Ready for the eager user to take hope and lovingly smother with cream before gobbling them up in a slightly guilty display of hedonistic decadence.
But think back before the grocer’s shelves and there has to be a way in which the fruit got there in the first place. A method which ensured not only that the fruit got from field to the shelf, but did so without bruising or any other misfortune occurring to such delicate foodstuffs.
This, broadly speaking, is what the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability’s AA1000 series is all about. It’s not concerned with the fruit of sustainability reporting, the actual metrics.
Rather, it concentrates upon how those metrics are brought about and how appropriate they are to the organisation reporting them. The quality of the reporting process in other words, not the metrics of the report itself.
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Posted on May 12, 2008 by Chris Milton and filed under Best Practices, Corporate social responsibility, Guides | Leave a Comment
A Quibble of Acronyms
It’s an odd existence to follow. First everyone says “Eh? What’s that then?” Then they fall in love with you and can’t get enough.
Later there’s the inevitable falling out, typified by arguments over what it was all about to start with. Lastly, the final stage is a grudging acceptance that no matter what, this is how things are set to remain for evermore.
Yep, life as a TLA* is tough. Only the most successful reach the heights of HTTP, the JK Rowling of acronym-land, used and translated the world over.
Most of the others fall by the wayside, the discarded betamaxes of their generation.
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Posted on May 10, 2008 by Chris Milton and filed under Best Practices, Corporate social responsibility | Leave a Comment
The Global Reporting Initiative — A Brief Overview
It’s the marketing men’s idea of a near perfect viral product. The work of a 25 person secretariat living on grants and donations has swept around the world with barely a penny spent on advertising.
Now hailed as the defacto standard and on its third generation of guidelines, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) dominates the world of environmental reporting.
Even those outside the CSR profession prick up their ears when they hear the acronym. It means something: it has respect and gravitas. If you comply with GRI you must be one of the Good Guys.
But what actually is it, and what makes it so popular?
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Chris Milton and filed under Best Practices, Corporate social responsibility, Guides | Leave a Comment
Drilling For Mud
Imagine 30,000 Amazonian tribesmen carousing along the street, waving their spears and whooping at the top of their voices in celebration.
They’d taken the petrochemical company Chevron to court and won huge and unprecedented damages.
For over twenty years Texaco, now a Chevron subsidiary, had dumped hazardous waste from its oil drilling enterprise into open lakes of effluent.
Toxins seeped into the groundwater and poisoned over 1,500 square miles used to live and farm by local indians and settlers. Now they’d got payback.
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by Chris Milton and filed under Best Practices, Corporate social responsibility, Oil & gas | Leave a Comment
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