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These reporting instruments which relate to the management that applies to an organisation, contrast with certain labels and product markings that provide certification of the product itself.
| Global Reporting Initiative | Convened in 1997 by the US Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), along with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).. Established to “develop, promote, and disseminate a generally accepted framework for sustainability reporting -- voluntary reporting on the economic, environmental, and social performance of corporations and other organisations. Its mandate as an international standards body is to make sustainability reporting as routine as financial reporting while achieving the highest standards of consistency and rigour." Launched formally in April 2002.as a permanent global institution www.globalreporting.org/. For a critique see www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/GRI.html |
| AA1000 Launched by the Institute for Social and Ethical AccountAbility (ISEA)2 in 1999, AA1000 is a global social accountability standard. | www.AccountAbility.org.uk |
| UK Government reporting guidelines In 2001, the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) produced general guidelines that set out how to produce a good quality environmental report. | www.defra.gov.uk/environment/envrp/index.htm |
| Sustainability Integrated Guidelines for Management (SIGMA) | In 1999, the UK Government, the British Standards Institute, Forum for the Future and ISEA launched the SIGMA Project, an initiative designed to explore the development of a new generation of sustainability management tools: www.projectsigma.com |
| London Benchmarking Group's guidelines on contributions that companies make to communities "to better define measures of efficiency and effectiveness of all types of community involvement activity by using benchmarking techniques" | visit www.lbg-online.net |
| Global Compact's Nine Principles | In an address to The World Economic Forum on 31 January
1999, United Nation Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged business leaders
to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that
would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society
to support nine principles in the areas of human rights, labour and the
environment. www.unglobalcompact.org/Portal/Default.asp
The principles are set out at www.unglobalcompact.org/Portal/?NavigationTarget =/roles/portal_user/aboutTheGC/nf/nf/theNinePrinciples |
| Social Accountability International | Social Accountability International (SAI) works to improve workplaces and combat sweatshops through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000, and the associated S8000 verification system. www.sa-intl.org/index.htm |
Case studies: of reporting processes;
Marks and Spencer’s approach to social auditing
Co-operative bank’s comprehensive approach to reporting:
http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/ethics/partnership2001/pr/standards.html
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