Issue 14 - December 2003

News

• ACCA Ireland presents Awards to four winning companies
• The winner of the 2003 ACCA Ireland Award for the Best Environmental Report is Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd
• A new approach to assurance, which includes stakeholders
• A different approach to social, environmental and sustainability assurance is now available, from justassurance, based on stakeholder-inclusion and materiality of issues
• Environmental Taxes booklet published
• This report, published by ACCA in association with the Environment Agency and written by Roger Cowe, reviews and describes national and European developments in environmental taxes
• ACCA Awards launched in South Africa
• The ACCA South Africa Awards for Sustainability Reporting were launched at the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg in October
• New SIGMA guidelines published
• The new SIGMA guidelines provide a structured, systematic approach for organisations of different kinds to put sustainable development into practice
• AccountAbility publish first AA1000 Assurance Standard Practitioners Note
• AA1000 Assurance Standard Practitioners Notes share common experiences and understanding about the role of sustainability assurance and the AA1000 Assurance Standard in particular
• CSR: Is there a business case? booklet published
• This ACCA members booklet, written by Roger Cowe and Prof Michael Hopkins, looks at the growth of CSR and the CSR as a business case theory

New Publications

• It simply works better: Campaign report on European CSR Excellence 2003-2004
• This report focuses on making stakeholder engagement work
• Building confidence: corporate sustainability reporting in Canada
• Stratos Inc. has published their latest 2003 benchmark survey of corporate sustainability reporting in Canada
• Second EMAN book of environmental management accounting papers
• These papers are published by Kluwer Academic Publishers as part of their "Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science" series
• Integrated sustainability reporting in South Africa 2003
• This KPMG survey reviews the status of sustainability reporting in South Africa
• Socially Responsible Investment among European Institutional Investors 2003 Report, Eurosif
• This report highlights the scale of European Institutional SRI across eight countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom)
• Mining - a survey of global reporting trends 2003
• This KPMG report analyses the current state of financial reporting in the global mining industry
• SRI In Asian Emerging Markets, ASrIA
• This publication provides up-to-date and comprehensive information on the status of SRI in Asia's Emerging Markets

GRI update

• GRI update