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Sustainability Reporting: Immediate Choices for the Future

Two recent developments in the Rio+20 context will help prompt welcome - and overdue - attention to the crucial role that corporate reporting can play in promoting progress towards sustainable development. The first of these was a call for "a global policy framework requiring all listed and large private companies to consider sustainability issues and to integrate sustainability information within the reporting cycle." Contained in the Rio+20 negotiating text known as the "Zero Draft."
The second was the altogether more muscular recommendation of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability that business groups should work with governments and international agencies to develop "a framework for sustainable development reporting." Read More