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Reports

Tomorrow's value
The Global Reporters 2006 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting


The report ranks the world’s leaders in corporate sustainability reporting, transparency and disclosure. Strikingly, half of the Leading 50 companies are complete newcomers, including 5 entrants from non-OECD countries. The results in
Tomorrow’s Value are based on an updated methodology and on a new selection protocol, both developed in close consultation with experts and reporting companies.

Language: English
Publication date: 11/2006
Pages: 32
ISBN: 1-903168-16-3
 
Risk & Opportunity: Best practice in Non-Financial Reporting
The Global Reporters 2004 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting


Risk & Opportunity, SustainAbility's sixth benchmark survey of corporate non-financial reporting with UNEP- and first partnership with Standard & Poor's, considers the question: Is the glass of the non-financial (and wider sustainability) reporting currently half full, as enthusiasts might argue, or half empty, as some critics allege? The evidence suggests a positive assessment, though there are still major gaps to be closed in the linked fields of disclosure, reporting and communication. Surveying a sample of 100 reports from around the world, Risk & Opportunity benchmarks an independently selected sample of 50 of the best, the 'Top 50'.

Language: English
Publication date: 11/2004
Pages: 52
ISBN: 1-903168-12-0
 
Trust Us: The Global Reporters 2002 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Trust Us, which summarizes the findings of the 2002 Global Reporters survey, aims to identify and classify best practice in corporate accountability across the triple bottom line (TBL) of sustainable development. The spotlight is on 100 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports from around the world, with the Top 50 subjected to an in-depth benchmarking. In addition, we analyze current reporting across industry clusters and in terms of emerging 'hot topics'.

Language: English
Publication date: 11/2002
Pages: 64
ISBN: 1-903168-06-6
Price: 60 GBP
 

Good News & Bad: The Media, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development

In Good News & Bad we investigate:

  • the roles of the media in building the CSR and SD agendas for business;
  • the ways in which media people perceive, prioritize
    and cover these issues; and
  • governance, accountability and transparency challenges for the media industry itself.

Language: English
Publication date: 01/2002
Pages: 44
ISBN: 1-903168-04-X
Price: 50 GBP

 
Virtual Sustainability: Using the Internet to Implement the Triple Bottom Line

The internet is changing our societies, our planet, our companies. By understanding the life of information on the web, and how people come into contact with it, we can build more creative, engaged, accountable corporations. Virtual Sustainability explores this universe and offers a powerful agenda for triple bottom line responsibility in the internet age from three different perspectives, or webs.

Language: English
Publication date: 12/2001
Type: CD-ROM
Price: 95 GBP
 
Driving Sustainability: Can the Auto Sector deliver sustainable mobility?

Driving Sustainability is not a benchmark of company performance in the automotive sector. Instead, it focuses on the ways in which a number of leading companies in the sector are defining - and responding to - the sustainable mobility agenda.

Language: English
Publication date: 09/2001
Pages: 32
ISBN: 1-903168-03-1
Price: 45 GBP
 
Buried Treasure: Uncovering the business case for corporate sustainability

The environmental, corporate social responsibility and sustainability development communities have long tried to uncover the hidden links between corporate leadership in these areas and business value creation - the 'buried treasure' referred to in the title of this report. Often described as 'making the business case', this search has united external advocates of a new model for business with the growing numbers of companies that have - or hope to - become more sustainable enterprises.

Language: English
Publication date: 01/2001
Pages: 56
ISBN: 1-903168-02-3
Price: 45 GBP
 
The Global Reporters

The Global Reporters spotlights emerging best practice around the world, focusing on a number of key sectors and 'hot topics'. Significantly, it introduces and applies a radically revised methodology for assessing reports. As far as are aware this is the first-ever international benchmark survey of corporate sustainability reports and reporting.

Language: English
Publication date: 10/2000
Pages: 60
ISBN: 1-903168-01-5
Price: 45 GBP
 
Life and Science: Accountability, Transparency, Citizenship and Governance in the Life Sciences Sector

Overall, as the research conducted for this report demonstrates, most life sciences companies fail to acknowledge many of the issues of most concern to external stakeholders. Furthermore, the companies are also still fundamentally at the 'issue level' in the public debate about modern biotechnology.

Language: English
Publication date: 08/2000
Pages: 106
ISBN: 1-903168-00-7
Price: 95 GBP
 

The Oil Sector Report: A Review of Environmental Disclosure in the Oil Industry

This report aims to be a catalyst for the following goals:

  • more reporting companies;
  • higher quality and more comprehensive reporting, and;
  • greater comparability of reporting across the sector - and industry in general.

From the outset, we have advocated a common 'best practice' reporting framework for the sectors as the way to achieve these goals. With the impressive progress of the emerging Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard, we recommend that such a framework aim for compatibility with GRI.

Language: English
Publication date: 09/1999
Pages: 82
ISBN: 0-9521904-9-4
Price: 95 GBP

 
The Internet Reporting Report

The Internet - the tens of thousands of networks and millions of computers that are capable of connecting - has been central to our thinking about emerging forms of accountability and reporting since the early days of the Engaging Stakeholders programme. Environmentalists have long hated simple-minded pursuit of 'technical fixes', and the internet won't help us achieve sustainable development in one jump, but it will be a crucial resource in the process.

Language: English
Publication date: 04/1999
Pages: 28
ISBN: 0-952-1904-5-1
Price: 35 GBP
 
The Social Reporting Report

This short publication is intended as an introduction to the field of corporate social reporting for those new to it, especially first-time or would-be reporters. More particularly, it aims to link the growing demands for social accountability with the wider sustainable development debate.

Language: English
Publication date: 01/1999
Pages: 24
ISBN: 0-952-1904-2-7
Price: 35 GBP
 
The Non-Reporting Report

Our goal with this publication is to promote reporting by exploring why some companies choose to produce corporate environment reports while others choose not to. Our focus is primarily on large - Fortune 500 - companies with significant environmental impacts. The majority of companies we looked at are headquartered in Europe or North America.

Language: English
Publication date: 06/1998
Pages: 24
ISBN: 0-952-1904-8-6
Price: 17,50 GBP
 
The CEO Agenda

This brief report highlights the findings of an international survey of chief executive officer (CEO) and other board-level perspectives on 'the triple bottom line' of sustainable development.

In the simplest terms, the triple bottom line focuses companies not simply on the economic value they add, but also on the environmental and social value added or destroyed. On the evidence presented here, only 11% of CEOs currently show even an embryonic understanding of the emerging agenda in this area - although this figure is a dramatic increase on the position 3-4 years ago, when the figure would certainly have been zero.

Language: English
Publication date: 03/1998
Pages: 20
ISBN: 0-952-1904-7-8
Price: 17,50 GBP
 
The 1997 Benchmark Survey

The 1997 Benchmark Survey analyses 1000 company environmental reports from 16 sectors and 18 countries. The purpose of the survey is to identify areas of strength and weakness in company environmental reporting, and to highlight examples of best practice. Out of the 100 companies covered here, more than 40 were also covered in our 1994 survey of 100 companies - and 24 were among the 40 reporting pioneers covered in Engaging Stakeholders in 1996. Where appropriate, we show how these companies' scores have changed over the 1994 - 1997 or 1996 - 1997 periods.

Language: English
Publication date: 01/1997
Pages: 40
ISBN: 0-952-1904-6-X
Price: 25 GBP
 

Engaging Stakeholders 1996 (volumes 1 and 2)

Among the core messages of Engaging Stakeholders:

  1. The company environmental report is a means to environmental improvement and greater accountability, not an end in itself.
  2. Corporate environmental reports have made great progress but a number of outstanding challenges remain.
  3. The key audiences for company environmental reports are shifting and information needs are evolving.
  4. New frameworks are required to measure progress against the emerging agenda.
  5. New forms of stakeholder engagement are needed to manage the sustainability transition.

Language: English
Publication date: 01/1996
Pages: 108 (vol. 1) and 88 (vol. 2)
ISBN: 0-952-1904-3-5
Price: 50 GBP