sustainability reporting initiative Articles
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Gallery: 4 Signs You Should Invest in EHS Software
These challenges may be preventing you from making better environmental, health and safety decisions. You're Reporting Manually If you're still using paper or spreadsheet-based processes to record incidents, perform audits and inspections, or create dashboards, chances are you're wasting time and effort. Everything Moves Slowly When you don't have the ability to manage your EHS ...
By EHS Insight
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Are stock markets influenced by sustainability matter? Evidence from European companies
The emergence of ethical investment is a sign of the increasing interest of shareholders in the impact of corporate activities on sustainable development. The objective of this article is to analyse the relationship between the sustainable performance of a company and its financial performance measured by stock market value. Belonging to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, disclosing a Global ...
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Global reporting initiative sustainability reporting – Case Study
Challenge: In 2009, an international organization of travel industry executives set an aspirational greenhouse gas reduction goal of 25% by 2020 and 35% by 2035 for their industry (on a 2005 baseline). A global luxury hotel chain needed to start gathering information to support their commitment to achieving this goal set by the client, and communicating their progress publicly. Solution: ...
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An approach to develop Sustainability Management Systems in the steel industry
Steel is a material which is in line with sustainable development as it can be recycled over and over again. Steel Industries believe that the sustainability through balanced development of society, environment and economy contributes to the heightened corporate value and ultimately enhances the benefits for stakeholders. There has been a growing interest in the industry to embrace the system ...
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Integrated reporting capabilities for improved environmental performance
An organization real-time dashboards and integrated sustainability reporting capabilities provide organizations with a means of perpetual monitoring and reporting. Real-time dashboards and integrated sustainability reporting capabilities provide organizations with a means of perpetual monitoring and reporting.As world leaders quibble over details of international climate deals, carbon emissions ...
By Vital Energi
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How to Optimize the Mining Value Chain with Digitally Integrated Power and Process Operations
The mining, minerals, and metals industry can do little about many factors that often squeeze cash flows. Dynamics like commodity prices, utility energy costs, labor rates, and geopolitical events are all random variables that can impact enterprise value. However, thanks to advanced digital capabilities, mining organizations can take more control over how they respond and adapt to the business ...
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Internet-based sustainability reporting
The early stages of corporate environmental reporting – in the late 1980s and early 1990s – have been focused on free-standing environmental reports, produced on print media and usually prepared as "one size fits all" universal documents. Using the internet provides an array of benefits and offers a number of capabilities of how to progress in the field, particularly along three dimensions: ...
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The trend of sustainability reporting in Italy: some evidence from the last decade
This study analyses the evolution of sustainability reporting in Italian listed companies taking into account some differences between 2002 and 2011 reporting practices. The analysis is aimed at showing the presence of normative and mimetic isomorphic pressures towards sustainability reporting and the use of GRI guidelines, and also at highlighting the presence of an improvement in reporting ...
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Building a GHG emissions calculation tool case study
Challenge: A multinational manufacturer requested assistance from Antea Group's Global Corporate Consultancy to calculate GHG emissions from its more than 60 worldwide facilities, including locations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. The manufacturer planned to publish its first Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) oriented sustainability report, and requested support in ...
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Creating an energy conservation program - Case Study
Challenge: Our client is a leading global supplier of tooling, engineered components and advanced materials consumed in production processes, and is represented in more than 60 countries. Antea Group's Global Corporate Consultancy was engaged to assist the company with the development and implementation of its global sustainability program and pursuit of its energy reduction goals. ...
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An analysis of the role of risk management in sustainability reporting - a case study of 27 European manufacturing companies
The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of risk management in sustainability reporting. Analysis was based on content analysis of sustainability reports of the 27 European manufacturing companies considered as a case in this study. The findings indicate that the GRI performance indicators were 1,323 times reported. The most frequently used economic, environmental and social indicators ...
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The relation between the GRI indicators and the financial performance of firms
Sustainable investments have become increasingly common in recent years. By reporting their environmental, social and sustainability performance, companies want to present themselves as good corporate citizens and thus, attract investors. However, do sustainability reports really show a fair picture of firms' sustainability work and its outcomes for both sustainable development and financial ...
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Conducting a sustainability assessment: practical six-step approach for addressing stakeholder interests
Why Conduct a Sustainability Assessment? Within many sectors of the economy, there has been an increasing need for companies to address sustainability principles throughout their value chain. The impetus for addressing sustainability has generally been a heightened awareness of the issue on the part of key stakeholders – such as investors, large scale customers, employers, and ...
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Corporate social responsibility reporting - a transnational analysis of online corporate social responsibility reports by market–listed companies: contents and their evolution
This paper describes the analysis of online Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports published by 97 market–listed companies from the USA, Germany and the rest of Europe. It points out regional differences as well as changes over time by performing both, a qualitative and a quantitative content analysis. The qualitative analysis focuses on four main aspects: (a) Why? Why do companies ...
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Social research analysts and the new significance of socially responsible investing
Paul Hilton explains how social investing research has the potential to provide greater insight into a company's ability to create superior financial value — but it depends on improving the quality and accessibility of non-financial data through a standardized approach. MOVING FROM VALUES TO VALUE Socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States emerged out of a call from investment ...
By AHC Group
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What Will be Driving Your Next Sustainability Report?
Sustainability in many automotive supplier companies has grown from a footnote or an appendix in an annual report to a fully developed, comprehensive strategy that drives meaningful business optimization and competitive advantage. The next generation of sustainability initiatives will likely contain increased focus on a vital area – the demands of The Customer. The automotive segment has ...
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Undisclosed risk: Corporate environmental and social reporting in emerging Asia
This report focuses on corporate transparency on environmental risks, and lays the groundwork for understanding environmental disclosure and reporting issues in emerging markets through an investor lens. It is the second report in a series establishing the link between issues like climate change, air pollution, water supply, and natural resource depletion and traditional financial analysis on ...
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