All Articles About Reporting & Communications

Blog: Sustainability Reports: Worth the Effort?

Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services

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Posted: February 15, 2012 | Topics: Materiality, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

BSR Insight Article: More Companies Using Social Media for Sustainability Communications

Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services

The “SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index,” explores the current social media and sustainability landscape, which has blossomed in the past two years. Research for this index reveals that 250 major companies in North America and Europe are engaged in social media for sustainability communications (compared to 120 in 2010), and more than 100 companies have a blog, YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter channel dedicated to sustainability. Read more →

Posted: February 3, 2012 | Topics: New Media, Reporting & Communications

BSR Insight Article: Four Key Sustainability Trends in Retail

The Retail Industry Leaders Association’s first sustainability report on the industry’s environmental, social, and community impacts features company case studies and identifies four key trends: Read more →

Posted: January 31, 2012 | Topics: Community Engagement & Development, Consumer Products, Environment, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain

BSR Insight Article: Transparency in China: A New Generation of Sustainability Reports

Brooke Avory, Manager, Partnership Development Morgan Zhang, Manager, Advisory Services Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services

Between 1999 and 2005, only 22 corporate responsibility reports were published in China. While they contained photos and cases highlighting corporate philanthropy efforts and employee volunteering, few contained details on how the companies were addressing the environmental, social, and governance issues relevant to their business. Read more →

Posted: January 24, 2012 | Topics: Reporting & Communications

BSR Insight Article: New California Regulation Spurs Greater Supply Chain Transparency

Sasha Radovich, Former Manager, Advisory Services

In a recent roundtable discussion that BSR and San Francisco’s Department on the Status of Women led on California’s new anti-human trafficking law—which requires retailers and manufacturers to disclose information related to labor and human trafficking in their supply chains—Verité Southeast Asia Founder and Director Maria Apostol said her organization found debt-bonded forced labor in every single one of its audits in Taiwan and Malaysia where foreign workers were present. Read more →

Posted: January 10, 2012 | Topics: Human Rights, Reporting & Communications, Supply Chain