Few In Accordance With Corporate Sustainability Guidelines

While few of the world's 50,000 multinational corporations are reporting in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative's Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, many that are reporting are going beyond the requirements.

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October 27, 2006, 6:00 AM PDT

By Nate Berg

"Perhaps counter-intuitively, leading global companies are finding value in reporting far more information on their sustainability performance than the GRI currently demands. Far from fretting about a plateau (although this is a clear present and future danger), we think the launch of the G3 guidelines will boost societal interest in the business impacts of sustainability issues like climate risk. In the process, the spotlight will likely move well beyond annual, stand-alone, 'in accordance' sustainability reports."

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