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Examining Sustainability Context: A Thought-Leader Dialogue (Part 1 of 3)

Earlier this year, a small subset of the Sustainability Context Group – an international community of 100+ corporate sustainability managers, academics, analysts, and advisors advancing uptake of sustainability context co-founded by Bill Baue and Mark McElroy – launched into a wide-ranging dialogue and

66 Experts Tell GRI: Enhance Guidance on Sustainability Context in G4

Earlier this week, 66 members of the Sustainability Context Group, an international community of corporate sustainability managers, academics, analysts and advisors, submitted a letter asking the Global Reporting Initiative (

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Shortcomings of Conventional Sustainability Metrics

A new study of carbon emissions highlights striking differences between conventional and new, context-based sustainability metrics. Cabot Creamery Cooperative, a well-known dairy company, last month concluded a retrospective study in which the reliability and usefulness of both varieties of metrics were examined.

CSRHub's Big Data Approach to 360-Degree Assessments

In our previous post, we defined “Big Data” and showed how we feel it could help address some problems that exist in collecting corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability data on companies.

Using “Big Data” To Rate Corporate Social Responsibility: One Company’s Approach

“Big Data” should be a useful tool for rating corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability performance. It may be the answer to dealing with the rise in new ratings systems (it seems there is a new one announced each month) and with the disparities in scores that occur among these different systems.

Carbon Disclosure Project Leadership Indexes: The Role of Scientific Targets

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a charity running a voluntary corporate disclosure mechanism for major corporations on behalf of institutional investors since its creation in 2000, recently released its annual analysis of its

Connect Materiality with Measurement for Maximum Value and Opportunity

More and more companies are undertaking materiality assessments in order to minimize risk by understanding and addressing key sustainability issues for their stakeholders.

How EP&L Anchors Sustainability in Becker Underwood's Core Business

This is the second of a two-part piece from Becker Underwood on the development of their environmental profit & loss methodology. Read part one.

Accelerating Reduction: EMC Advances Practice on Climate-Stabilizing Targets

In July, EMC released its 2011 Sustainability Report, which integrated the Global Reporting Initiative Principle of Sustainability Context into its climate stabilization work.

Timberland, Wrangler Parent Company Selects Environmental Management System

VF Corporation – the parent company of numerous brands including Timberland, Wrangler and The North Face – has selected a technology platform to track and report energy, water, and emissions data, as well as additional sustainability-related metrics, across its global footprint of operations and products.

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