Corporate sustainability
Corporate sustainability encompasses strategies and practices that aim to meet the needs of stakeholders today while seeking to protect, support and enhance the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Business and industry has a crucial role to play in helping Australia to become more sustainable and competitive. As a result, many Australian organisations and industries are responding by reducing their environmental impacts and risks through improved environmental management practices and efficient use of natural resources.
Corporate sustainability reporting
Organisations and industries around the world are recognising the value of demonstrating transparency and accountability beyond the traditional domain of financial performance. This trend has come about through increased public expectations for organisations and industries to take responsibility for their non-financial impacts, including impacts on the environment and the community.
Publications
Corporate reporting
- The State of Sustainability Reporting in Australia 2005 - March 2006
- The State of Sustainability Reporting in Australia 2004 - June 2004
- Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Australia: A Guide to Reporting Against Environmental Indicators - June 2003
- The State of Public Environmental Reporting in Corporate Australia - March 2003
- Study into Sustainability Reporting in the Trade & Retail Sector - November 2002
- Triple Bottom Line Measurement and Reporting in Australia: Making it Tangible - 2002
- Environmental Reporting: Handbook for Small and Medium Size Businesses - June 2001
- A Framework for Public Environmental Reporting: An Australian Approach - 2000
Financial services sector
- Corporate Sustainability - an Investor Perspective: The Mays Report - 2003
- The Materiality of Environmental Risk to Australia's Finance Sector - May 2003
- Risk, The Environment and the Role of the Insurance Industry - January 2003
- A Capital Idea: Realising Value from Environmental and Social Performance
- Socially Responsible Investment: Your Questions Answered - July 2001
- The Role of Australia's Financial Sector in Sustainability - October 2000
Web resources
- Socially Responsible Investment in Australia - Annual benchmark survey of SRI
Related information
Online databases
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