This inventory as a read-only spreadsheet: IDO vzw. Social LC Alliance: Home. Time Magazine: Making Good, Plus a Profit.
The book : Social LCAs Socio-economic effects in value chains / News - Social LCA - CIRAD. National and local initiatives. Consultancies. Indicators and Methods. Documents. Standards. OECD Better Life Index. TCO Certified. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Overview Access to adequate social protection remains a privilege.
Today, only a fifth of the world population enjoys sufficient social protection. An additional 30 percent is partially, but not sufficiently covered, leaving half of the world excluded. UNEP Corporate Sustainability Reporting > Group of Friends of Paragraph 47. The Group of Friends of Paragraph 47 is a government led initiative that was formed by Brazil, Denmark, France and South Africa, pioneers in sustainability reporting practice and policy.
The Group was born in June 2012 following acknowledgement of the importance of corporate sustainability reporting in Paragraph 47 of the Outcome Document of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Since then, the Governments of Austria, Chile, Colombia, Norway and Switzerland have joined the Group. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) support the group in a Secretariat capacity and provide technical support and guidance in concert with others.
In order to create enabling conditions for this, the Group aims to advance the promotion of corporate sustainability reporting by: [Go Back] Investors in People. We are the UK's most successful framework for business improvement through people management.
The Investors in People Framework underpins everything we do. Based on 20 years of leading practice, it was designed by business, for business. Written in consultation with customers, employees and people management specialists, it provides a path to organisational change. Created to meet the ever-evolving needs and challenges of today's businesses, the Framework gives you a tangible way to drive your business forward. Non-Financial Reporting and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
The International Corporate Sustainability Reporting Site. Sustainability Disclosure Database - Home. EIRIS - Empowering Responsible Investment. What is ESG? ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance.
There is growing evidence that suggests that ESG factors, when integrated into investment analysis and decision making, may offer investors potential long-term performance advantages. ESG has become shorthand for investment methodologies that embrace ESG or sustainability factors as a means of helping to identify companies with superior business models. ESG factors offer portfolio managers added insight into the quality of a company's management, culture, risk profile and other characteristics.
By taking advantage of the increased level of scrutiny associated with ESG analysis, ESG Managers® Portfolios seek to identify companies that we believe: Mistra Urban Futures-Knowledge about and Approaches to Fair and Socially Sustainable Cities - KAIROS. KAIROS is a transdisciplinary research project with focus on the social dimension of sustainability.
The premise of the project is the way in which globalisation, migration and urbanisation characterise our time and place new demands on participation and co-creation. Cities' role in a changing world The complex societal problems that come with the on-going societal transformation is embodied and impacts on a local level. Cities, and their transnational networks, play an increasingly important role in facing the demands for sustainable development. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) International Labor Organization (ILO) The Social License To Operate. The Social License has been defined as existing when a project has the ongoing approval within the local community and other stakeholders, ongoing approval or broad social acceptance and, most frequently, as ongoing acceptance.
At the level of an individual project the Social License is rooted in the beliefs, perceptions and opinions held by the local population and other stakeholders about the project. It is therefore granted by the community. It is also intangible, unless effort is made to measure these beliefs, opinions and perceptions. 2013 Human Development Report. Skip to main content Home 2013 Human Development Report Human Development Report 2013 The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World The 21st century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics, driven by the fast-rising new powers of the developing world.
In addition to the 2013 Report, a series of occasional papers were produced to inform the research process. Download: Human Development Report 2013 Complete English Human Development Report 2013 Technical Notes.
The European Business Network for Corporate Social Responsibility. Report: Accounting for sustainability - A4s. Inter Faith Centre on Cooporate Responsibility (ICCR) The Natural Step / Det Naturliga Steget also known as the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FFSD) The FSSD is a process of continual learning that incorporates other methods, tools, and concepts into a shared, structured overview.
No successful attempt to develop such an overview would ignore other approaches – instead, this framework will make better use of them. Social Impact Assement (SIA) HUB. ISO 26000, an estimation. The Social Audit Network. Press release: Disclosure of non-financial information by certain large companies (proposal to improve transparency) European Commission Statement Brussels, 26 February 2014 Disclosure of non-financial information by certain large companies: European Parliament and Council reach agreement on Commission proposal to improve transparency The European Parliament and the Council have reached agreement on an amendment to existing accounting legislation to improve the transparency of certain large companies on social, environmental and diversity matters.
This agreement was endorsed today by Coreper. "Europe needs modern and useful rules on transparency of non-financial information by certain large companies. Large public-interest entities (mainly listed companies and financial institutions) with more than 500 employees will be required to disclose relevant and useful environmental and social information in their management reports. Background. MSA. Home Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability Programme - Blekinge Institute of Technology. The Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) Programme is a 10-month transformational masters programme in Karlskrona, Sweden that focuses on advancing your knowledge, skills, and global networks, in order to build your capacity to be a strategic leader in the co-creation of thriving, sustainable societies.
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, one of the programme´s co-founders, on the essence of MSLS: Applications close on March 30th! Please click here for how to apply Advance your career in a meaningful way What do our students say? Strategic Sustainability Consulting. Our Approach. Futureye’s approach is to reduce the gap between stakeholder expectations and perceived company performance. Depending on the circumstances, this can involve adjusting stakeholder expectations, improving actual company performance or a combination of both. Futureye has identified that when gaps exist between stakeholder expectations and perceived performance, the views of a small but vocal minority can quickly gain broader support and affect a company’s reputation.
As the negative public attention grows, so too does the company’s vulnerability to political and regulatory forces. To protect itself from the uncertain outcomes of community concern and public outrage, a company must earn the acceptance and trust of its stakeholders and the community. We call this acceptance a social licence to operate. Social Impact Assessment. Accessible Social Impact Assessment. Twelve sustainability experts from leading companies have come together in the Roundtable for Social Metrics, aiming to make social impact assessment more accessible and meaningful through the development of a handbook for social impact assessments of products and services along value chains. The draft handbook that was developed in Phase 1 has undergone external consultation. Phase 2 recently started, with five new companies joining this initiative. The first ever European CSR Awards Scheme taking place this year, recognising impactful partnerships between business and non-business organisations.