Yesterday, I wrote about Unilever’s new goals regarding sustainable packaging. Today, MillerCoors is making headlines with its newly released 2010 Sustainable Development report, which reveals several significant corporate sustainability achievements over the past year.
For instance, looking specifically at environmental stewardship in 2009, MillerCoors: (more…)
Without question, the disaster that’s unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is a case study in the lack of corporate sustainability oversight.
But, now there’s a new report that says the problems aren’t limited to BP or even “big oil.” According to this latest research, most corporations don’t seek out independent sources of information on the impact of business operations on the environment, and most lack detailed procedures and metrics for integrating social objectives into daily corporate activities.
The report, Sustainability in the Boardroom, released yesterday by The Conference Board, reveals that few companies consistently elevate sustainability issues to the strategic discussions that take place at the board level. As a result, the vast majority of directors (89 percent) continue to base their decision on reports by senior executives, and most sustainability discussions with the board only take place in reaction to emergency situations.
Here are a few additional, and equally sobering, findings from the report: (more…)
Two powerhouses in the field of corporate sustainability –the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – have announced an agreement to align their work in advancing corporate responsibility and transparency.
With this new collaboration, the organizations will be able to further develop their combined strengths – the Global Compact’s strategic advancement of key sustainability issues, and GRI’s reporting framework.
Under the terms of the new agreement: (more…)
The Sportlifestyle company Puma wants to enhance transparency and improve social and working conditions in its supply chain, and so the company is going to provide training about sustainability reporting to its strategic suppliers.
Puma says 20 of its strategic suppliers –which account for more than two thirds of all Puma products – will receive GRI-certified training on transparent measurement and reporting of their sustainability performance using the GRI G3 Guidelines. The training, part of the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain program (GANTSCh), will be conducted by GRI Certified Training Partners, and during the reporting process, the suppliers will be supported by regional sustainability consultants.
The training is scheduled to start in 2010, and the suppliers’ first sustainability reports are expected to be released in 2011/2012. (more…)
