{"id":2299,"date":"2006-11-10T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/11\/10\/a-new-report-on-sustainability-reports\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T02:47:00","slug":"a-new-report-on-sustainability-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/a-new-report-on-sustainability-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Report on Sustainability Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> If these general statements weren’t encouraging enough, guess which US company finished highest in the rankings? Nike. Yep, the shoe maker that activist and social responsibility NGOs loved to hate (with good reason) ten years ago is now leading the pack in transparency for its social and environmental impact. SustainAbility founder and “Chief Entrepreneur” John Elkington noted<\/a>, “Similar to the other top reporters, Nike is embracing the idea that sustainability and reporting are about far more than mitigating risk and appeasing stakeholders, they are the very basis for entrepreneurship inside their company that will lead to strategic innovations and the building of new markets yet to come.” Now, that’s good news! And if Nike can do it, other companies will find less patience from shareholders and the public with excuses…<\/p>\n Categories: sustainability<\/a>, reporting<\/a>, business<\/a>, corporations<\/a>, socialresponsibility<\/a>, nike<\/a>, us<\/a>, unep<\/a>, standard&poors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seems like, over the last few months particularly, company sustainability reports are all over my news feeds. Businesses in the US and abroad have clearly grasped the idea of showing [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":17204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Seems like, over the last few months particularly, company sustainability reports are all over my news feeds. Businesses in the US and abroad have clearly grasped the idea of showing their commitment to people, planet and profit, but I often wondered how much of this represented real, substantive change, and how much was pure greenwash. Today, consulting firm SustainAbility released Tomorrow’s Value<\/a>, its “fourth international benchmark of corporate sustainability reporting.” The report, created in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Standard & Poors, essentially ranks and analyzes corporate sustainability reports on how well they represent what a company is actually doing. Their findings show that, despite notorious coporate cranks on environmental issues, many major corporations are recognizing opportunity in not simply managing risks and complying with regulations, but in taking on bigger environmental challenges, and in doing business more transparently. Among the major conclusions:<\/p>\n\n