Ethical Corporation is running a conference on The future of reporting on Corporate Responsibility – evolving reports, new communications strategies and better engagement on 25–26 November 2010 in London. The registration site is not publicly available but you can look at last year’s conference here.
A September summit in London hosted by IBM will consider how to become a smarter business for a sustainable future. The last few days of the 9 day summit sound particularly interesting in terms of Holistic Reporting.
9Aug
UK Consultation on the Future of Narrative Reporting
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The UK Government has kicked off a consultation on the future of narrative reporting for responses by October 19, 2010. This consultation has direct relevance to Holistic Reporting when you consider sections (20) and (21) below:
The widely anticipated International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) has now been formed. The strange thing is that both the steering committee and working group seem to have no XBRL representation and virtually zero software company representation – only Microsoft – and they have only been in the business accounting and management reporting business for a decade.
Obviously execution is not the current concern of this august body. But it’s a shame there is no representation from sustainability reporting vendors who are working on delivering integrated reporting today or those who have been delivering integrated reporting for years. And where is SAP – whose systems probably control a major slice of the global 1000 companies’ business accounting and management reporting?
It’s either a conundrum or a panjandrum…
2Aug
ULE 880 Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations
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PR Newswire reports that:
UL Environment Inc., a global leader in environmental evaluation and certification and wholly owned subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), announces that it is seeking public comment on a new corporate sustainability standard for manufacturers: ULE 880 – Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations. The comment period will be open for approximately 45 days, ending Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
The press release states that:
ULE 880 Standard for manufacturing organizations defines core sustainability metrics within the following five areas:
- Sustainability governance: How an organization leads and manages itself in relation to its stakeholders, including employees, investors, regulatory authorities, customers and the communities in which it operates
- Environment: How an organization manages its environmental footprint across its policies, operations, products and services, including its resource use and emissions
- Workforce: Issues related to employee working conditions, organization culture, benefits and retention
- Customers and suppliers: Issues related to an organization’s policies and practices on product safety, quality, pricing and marketing as well as its supply chain policies and practices
- Social and community engagement: An organization’s impacts on the communities in which it operates in the areas of social equity, ethical conduct and human rights
