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• Accountability Rating 2006
• The results of the 2006 Accountability Rating ®, a research report carried out by csrnetwork and AccountAbility, have been published. The study looks at the accountability of some of the world’s largest companies by revenue, using any publicly available information. It analyses business’ performance in six key domains: stakeholder engagement, strategy, governance, performance management, assurance and public disclosure and draws on existing reporting frameworks, including the AA1000.
• Tomorrow’s Value - The Global Reporters 2006 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
• This report, carried out by SustainAbility, in partnership with UNEP and Standard and Poor’s, ranks the leading corporate reporters from around the world. This year’s study finds the leading reporters taking a more sophisticated approach to identifying and reporting on material issues and better linking to core business processes within companies. The report especially looks at whether (and how well) the link between sustainability and wider market opportunities is understood by companies.
• Better assurance starts with better understanding
• This report, published by KPMG Sustainability (Netherlands), was launched at the G3 launch event held in Amsterdam. KPMG hosted an assurance panel discussion, looking at the questions raised by different stakeholders on assurance and the report looks to increase the understanding of assurance and progress on the discussion concerning the subject.
• Getting the message - a snapshot of company reporting in Australia
• ACCA Australia has published a research report looking at how leading Australian companies are currently approaching both financial and sustainability reporting. Given the focus on corporate responsibility and reporting, as well as the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Australia , this report is a timely look at how Australian organisations approach financial and sustainability reporting.
• Excellence in Sustainability Reporting 2006
• This report, published by Ernst and Young South Africa and adjudicated by the University of Johannesburg, looked at the standards of sustainability reporting in South Africa (in the JSE Limited’s SRI Index), using G3 as one of the guides for assessing performance.
• The Materiality Report - Aligning Strategy, Performance and Reporting
• This report, published by AccountAbility in association with BT and LRQA, is a piece of research looking into the issue of materiality and provides a toolkit for organisations to work out which issues are ‘material’ to their underlying performance, and encourages business to focus on these issues in their public reporting.
• Climate Change and Insurance - An Agenda for Action in the United States
• This report, authored by Allianz Group and WWF, states that the insurance industry should do more to address the growing impact of climate change-induced damages.
• International business attitudes to corruption - survey 2006
• This research report, published by the security firm Control Risks and Simmons & Simmons, concludes that corruption continues to be a huge international issue for companies. 350 senior executives from 7 different were interviewed for the study and it found that overall, businesses in Hong Kong were the most affected by corruption, with UK firms experiencing the least.
• First Carbon Disclosure Project Report Focused On Asia
• The 1st Round of the CDP Process in Asia has been officially launched with the publication by ASrIA (The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia ) of the first CDP Report at a well attended event in Hong Kong. The ASrIA launch co-incided with other official launches of CDP4 reports in the US, Europe and Japan.

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