Issue 10 - April 2003

News

• The AA1000 Assurance Standard launched by AccountAbility
• The world's first assurance standard developed to ensure the credibility and quality of corporate public reporting on social, environmental and economic performance, has been launched by AccountAbility
• First ACCA Singapore environmental reporting awards ceremony held
• Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Minister of State for Health & the Environment presented Singapore Airlines Ltd with the award for Best Environmental Report
• Rewarding transparency: ACCA UK reporting award winners announced
• 14 Awards were given this year by the four judging panels. The 12 winning organisations received their awards from the Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP, Minister of State for the Environment
• ACCA Malaysia promotes transparency by holding two day environmental reporting conference and first reporting awards ceremony
• YB Dato' Haji Zainal Dahalan, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Malaysia presented ACCA Awards to four winners
• First Corporate Responsibility Benchmark published by BitC
• Published by Business in the Community, this is the first business-led, voluntary Index, publicly benchmarking the responsible business practice of companies in a range of different industry sectors

New Publications

• The Triple-Bottom-Line: Benchmarking New Zealand's Early Reporters
• This publication, from the University of Otago, highlights how reports from New Zealand stand up to international best practice, identifies key trends to emerge from these early reports, and provides suggestions for further improvement
• The ACCA UK Report of the Judges publication
• This report summarises the findings and reflections of the judging panels for all four categories of the ACCA UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting 2002
• Realising the Value, ACBE
• This latest ACBE publication is aimed at helping senior managers, to whom the board has devolved responsibility for managing sustainability issues, to integrate sustainability issues into their mainstream risk management and other business processes
• Sustainability: A guide to triple bottom line reporting, G100
• The Group of 100, the organisation representing the CFOs of Australia's leading enterprises, has released a guide to triple bottom line (TBL) reporting
• Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets report
• This Carbon Disclosure Project study found that while 80 percent of respondents acknowledge the importance of climate change as a financial risk, only 35-40 percent were actually taking action to address the risks and opportunities
• The Big Picture, ACCA
• The aim of this report is to raise awareness of environmental issues in mainstream financial analysis, give guidance and point to existing good practice
• Benefits of Sustainability Assurance, FEE
• This latest FEE publication is intended to be an introduction to the topic of assurance and explains what is meant by the term assurance and why an organisation should commission an assurance engagement
• The Environmental Reporting Guidelines for Malaysian Companies, ACCA
• This guide was written at the request of, and prepared in collaboration with, the Malaysian Department of Environment, Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment

GRI update

• GRI update