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North American Sustainability Reporting Trends Just Released

March 21, 2016

Companies with tangible and publicly disclosed sustainability goals are four to five times more likely to improve their financial, social and environmental performance compared to those who do not set goals.

What’s state of the art in sustainability reporting?

Joss Tantram

January 31, 2015

CSR Reporting

While reporting has evolved over the past two decades, it still has further to go and requires many changes in the outside world in order for sustainability disclosure to be understood as equivalent or even greater in importance than financial information.

The State of Sustainability Reporting & Transparency in Canada

Kathrin Bohr

January 25, 2015

CSR Reporting, CSR in Canada

Through our research, SRA believes that after 20+ years of reporting activity in Canada, we are at a turning point. Early-adopter companies are stepping back to re-assess the value and benefit of producing annual sustainability reports.

Six emerging sustainability reporting practices in Canada: TELUS comes out on top

Anastasia Ostapchuk

November 5, 2014

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After a launch of the Global Compact Network Canada’s inaugural Reporting Peer Review Program this summer, a second cohort of Canadian companies successfully completed the program this October.

It’s time for a unifying metric that measures well-being and inclusive prosperity

Brad Zarnett

February 17, 2014

Capitalism 2.0

Imagine a world where companies build their competitive advantage by creating more overall well-being and inclusive prosperity than their competitors.

Talk is Cheap: Don’t tell me about Sustainability – Show me!

Sören Andersson

December 8, 2013

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Instead of starting where we are, doing small incremental changes trying to make our business and behaviour sustainable, we must start where we need to be when we have a sustainable society and work our way backwards from there.

The Swedish Government Leads the Way on Sustainability

Francisca Quinn

November 15, 2013

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In 2007, Sweden became the first country in the world to require that state-controlled companies report on their sustainability activities in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Now it’s going further, requiring these companies to make sustainability a core consideration in their businesses.

Materiality can make or break the usefulness of a sustainability report: Understanding G4

Elaine Cohen

September 24, 2013

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Material issues are core for sustainability disclosure but how detailed does a materiality assessment need to be in order to be meaningful?

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