The management systems community
10th Sep 2007 by Anne-Marie Warris
The last few weeks has been full of climate issues on the news front, be it the EC stopping Chinese import of cheap energy efficient light bulbs. How does that square with the need consumers identified in the What assures consumers report for choice editing?
Choice editing is the term used in the report to describe instances […]
6th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs
A Greener Choice Blog post has highlighted a recent Consumers Report poll has found that 92 percent of Americans want their food products to be labelled with the country of origin.
In line with the recent What Assures Consumers report which focused on UK and US consumers and their attitudes toward climate change, the Consumers Report poll has […]
1st Sep 2007
New global research sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, M&S and the Co-op shows that consumers want better independent, impartial assurance of corporations’ environmental claims.
15th Aug 2007
The AA1000AS 2nd edition will be the world’s first mainstream corporate accountability standard to be developed using a collaborative wiki process.
16th Jul 2007
This podcast is all about What Assures Consumers on Climate Change?, the title of a report produced by AccountAbility and Consumers International.
14th Feb 2007
RTHK reports about the changes to legislation in Guangdong which introduces emissions trading for large power stations.
5th Dec 2006
Alan Knight, Head of Standards and Related Services at AccountAbility, Deborah Evans, Business Manager - Corporate Reporting and Assurance at LRQA and Chris Tuppen, Head of SD & Corporate Accountability at BT present the concept of materiality, how different companies have tackled the issue, and propose a Materiality Framework that everyone can use.
29th Nov 2006
Simon Zadek, Chief Executive at AccountAbility, gives his view on what Materiality means for industry.
9th Nov 2006
Today’s non financial reporting models are broken. The problem isn’t that CSR reports are ‘greenwash’. Or even that they are unread, unloved data dumps. The problem is materiality - determining and reporting on the non financial factors which really matter.
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