Corporate sustainability reporting is recognised as a fundamental part of good business by investors and stakeholders. An effective report will tackle key issues in a way that builds trust and confidence in a company’s ability to manage and communicate its material non-financial impacts. We help clients achieve best practice.
SustainAbility Reporting Services
SustainAbility provides a range of reporting services designed to assist clients through the entirety of their reporting process.
Assurance
Advice on assurance strategy, including the facilitation of stakeholder led assurance processes or report review committees.
Communication strategy
Design broader/multi-year communication strategies which include targeted message and outreach plans for specific stakeholder groups.
Materiality: Issue identification and prioritisation
Build methodologies to identify and rank ‘material’ risks, as well as scoping appropriate reporting strategies for identified priorities.
Metrics and management processes
Review and develop metrics and management processes — for key material issues and/or for a report as a whole.
Pre-publication review
Provide timely and practical advice prior to publication.
Report benchmarking
Benchmark company report using our Global Reporters methodology.
Report outreach and review
Ensure report publication is supported by a strong outreach strategy — including stakeholder interviews or roundtables.
Reporting strategy and roadmap development
Develop reporting strategy — through benchmarking, internal interviews and stakeholder research.
Stakeholder engagement
Identify and prioritise stakeholders with an interest in company report and material issues. Convene dialogues to inform reporting strategy and facilitate feedback on expectations of material issues, corporate performance and reporting.
Engaging Stakeholders programme
The SustainAbility Engaging Stakeholders Programme provides a unique membership forum for business to develop and drive best practice in sustainability reporting and stakeholder engagement. Membership includes an annual benchmark of the company sustainability report, two annual workshops and regular contact with a dedicated SustainAbility liaison.
Best practice reporting database
Web-based database providing access to examples of best practice in sustainability reporting — searchable by industry, geography, issue and GRI indicator. To be launched in 2007 in collaboration with Flag.
Global Reporters
The Engaging Stakeholders Program publishes a biannual benchmark – the Global Reporters Series - that reports on best practice in corporate responsibility reporting. Our latest report in the series is Tomorrow’s Value: The Global Reporters 2006 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting.
For further information, please contact:
Jean-Philippe Renaut
renaut@sustainability.com
+44 (0)20 7269 6928
