Research Fellow's paper published by The Conference Board
A research paper by Cornis van der Lugt, Senior Research Fellow
of the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa and Geneva-based
consultant was published this week as a Director Note by The
Conference Board, a global network of corporate executives from
over 1200 companies world-wide. Entitled 'The Sustainability
Business Case: A Model for Incorporating Financial Value Drivers',
the Director Note is available online at: http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2516.
It was co-written by Van der Lugt and Marc Bertoneche, Visiting
Professor in Finance at Harvard Business School. The paper presents
a Green Business Case Model that sets out the link between
environmental actions and core financial value drivers that are of
special interest to investors and other providers of financial
capital. A longer version of the paper has also been published as
Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No 13-072, available
online at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2221455.
Carrots and Sticks: Sustainability reporting policies worldwide
- today's best practice, tomorrow's trends
Friday, 24 May 2013: The third edition of Carrots and
Sticks: Sustainability reporting policies worldwide - today's best
practice, tomorrow's trends has just been launched at the
Global Reporting Initiative's conference in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. The first edition of Carrots and Sticks covered
developments in 19 countries, and the second in 32 countries. This
third edition covers 45 countries and regions. The Centre for
Corporate Governance in Africa at the University of Stellenbosch
Business School is one of the four core project partners of this
report along with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and KPMG Climate Change &
Sustainability Services. The increasing faith that many governments
have in the benefits of transparency practices is demonstrated in
this publication by a matrix and inventory of 180 initiatives from
45 countries and regions.
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Corporate Disclosure: IIRC and GRI Compared
An updated Comparative Table on the core
requirements of the Integrated Reporting Framework (IR1 -
Consultation Draft) and the G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
is now available, based on the final version of the G4 launched by
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on 22 May
2013. Using the structure of the IR1 as point of departure, the
table lists the most relevant requirements of G4 - Part 1 and Part
2 - next to each core requirement of the IR1 Consultation Draft
that was published by the International Integrated Reporting Council
(IIRC) in April 2013. The comparative table is of particular
interest to South African corporations preparing their annual
sustainability and integrated reports as required by the JSE.
The Centre is chaired by Prof Bob Garratt, professor
extraordinaire in Corporate Governance at the USB and it is headed
by Daniel Malan, senior lecturer in Ethics and Governance at the
USB.