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Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability (CR&S) Reporting Strategy
Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability (CR&S) reporting is a way for businesses to disclose their corporate responsibility and sustainability accomplishments to investors, employees, communities and other stakeholders. In addition, CR&S reporting enables businesses to better understand the impacts of their operations so that they can improve.
CR&S reporting is becoming expected among leading businesses – 49% of the S&P 100 issued a CR&S report in 2007. This is driven by stakeholder interest and increasing regulation. For example, in the U.S. and Canada, 67 shareholder resolutions calling for CR&S reporting were filed in 2009. And in the U.K., the Companies Act mandates that certain companies disclose their CR&S performance.
We can help your company in its efforts to:
- Benchmark peer CR&S reporting and activities
- Engage external stakeholders to understand expectations
- Develop key performance targets based on benchmarking and stakeholder engagement
- Establish report vision and content as part of a broader communications strategy
- Understand data and information needs to meet requirements or reporting frameworks such as GRI, AA1000, and others
- Assess availability and quality of necessary data and information
- Develop recommendations to improve reporting quality
- Provide guidance on third-party assurance readiness
- Provide third-party report assurance
