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Are Materiality Matrices Really Material?
NEW METRICS - While it is common practice now for corporate sustainability reports to include materiality matrices, whether or not they actually serve their purpose is debatable.
GRI Responds to "Enforce or Explain"
NEW METRICS - GRI has now formally responded to the *Enforce or Explain* campaign we launched last month.
A Public Plea to GRI: Enforce or Explain
NEW METRICS - Motivated, in part, by GRI’s own Report or Explain Campaign, in which GRI exhorts businesses around the world to issue sustainability reports or explain why they don’t, our campaign is aimed at GRI itself.
Do LCAs Measure Up To Sustainability?
NEW METRICS - Despite the growing use of life cycle assessments to measure the sustainability of products, a strong case can be made that the one has less to do with the other than most people think.
Sustainability Context – What Is It?
NEW METRICS - CBS is not only the most intellectually rigorous form of sustainability management, it is the one upon which the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) explicitly relies in the form of what it refers to as sustainability context.
Levi's and Goodwill Launch "Care Tag for Our Planet"
PRESS RELEASE - The two companies announced the new initiative today\.
Do Winning Sustainability Reports Measure Up?
NEW METRICS - While even award-winning sustainability reports have a hard time putting their achievements into context, their relevance relies upon it.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting - Where's the Context?
NEW METRICS - Call me old-fashioned, but I think a sustainability report should actually tell us something about the sustainability performance of the organization it describes.
Defining "Sustainability": An Open Letter to the FTC
NEW METRICS - On April 30, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will conduct a second public workshop in its continuing efforts to address the question of how sustainability claims in advertising should be handled.
Mark McElroy on What's Wrong with Sustainability Reporting
NEW METRICS - While it's great to see so many companies embracing sustainability reporting, most aren't giving us the whole picture, says Mark McElroy.
P&G, NRDC and FSC: The Debate Over Sustainable Tissue Continues
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Earlier this year, P&G outlined a comprehensive framework for its leading brands to increase their positive impacts on society and the environment. But forest-conservation NGOs say they need less talk, more action when it comes to P&G's tissue products.
