The EU Multi Stakeholder Forum on CSR discussed reporting and socially responsible investment during its meeting of 22-23 September 2003.
This two-day conference firstly tackled the issue of
sustainability reporting, under the following themes, based on a number of
presentations
:
- The impact of reporting, based on a presentation by AccountAbility and CSR Europe;
- Benchmarking corporate sustainability reporting, presented by SustainAbility;
- The Global Reporting Initiative, whose main mission is "to make sustainability reporting as routine and valuable as financial reporting", presented by GRI's Strategic Development Director. BT also talked about its own experience with the GRI;
- The 2001 social and environmental law in France, presented by ORSE;
- Company and stakeholder experience on reporting (case study of Lafarge);
- A sectorial approach to reporting: the tour operators' supplement to the GRI.
The second part of the round table meeting dealt withsocially responsible investment (SRI). In this context, the following topics were discussed:
- The market of SRI and sustainability indices in Europe, as presented by Eurosif, Avanzi SRI Research and CSR Europe;
- Eurosif's transparency guidelines for the retail SRI fund sector;
- The drivers, obstacles and success factors in SRI (Ethibel, FTSE4Good and Siemens).
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