Sustainability reporting

impressive and convincing analysis of challenges, progress and problems. Also, the inclusion of a life cycle structure is encouraging as it indicates their intent to analyse sustainability from a life cycle perspective in order to optimise results. This report clearly follows the GRI laid out guideline for corporate sustainability reporting covering their vision, strategies, policies and performances. It subsequently reveals the major issue confronting the oil and gas sector…

Australia has a capitalist economy meaning that private citizens and groups own the businesses in the economy instead of the government. Investments are crucial for businesses to operate and grow hence, businesses must convince investors to voluntarily contribute huge amount of their money as investments. In order for businesses to attract investments, all the possible risk and benefits of the business must be assessed and evaluated with sufficient reliability. With reference to (Hines 1991),…

This essay has allowed me to reflect on my life and on my perspectives that represent my understandings about environmental sustainability. Reflecting on two memories shows what impact they had on forming my values on sustainability and what I may have done differently. The experiences are analysed so as I discover how they influenced my environmental philosophy and Bronfenbrenner’s theory is examined when reflecting on who influences our thinking. Lastly, sustainable education perspectives are…

The term sustainability has a range of definitions running into hundreds, making any preliminary definition necessarily highly abstract, but all cluster around the core idea that some system, process, range of welfare, or set of items can be maintained at a certain rate or level for the long term; the ingredients of this formulation and its applications, however, vary widely, as do their disciplinary roots and practical implications. In the context of natural resources, sustainability can be…

The Qantas group has a supplier code of conduct, which was published for the first time in 2013/2014. The code includes occupational health and safety, environmental, sustainability and animal welfare guidelines alongside others that suppliers are expected to follow (Qantas 2015). In order to effectively manage risks, a third party auditor is employed to conduct thorough risk assessments of potential suppliers to review their…

Recently, sustainability become a vital issue all over the world. Sustainability could promote the development of economic, social and protect the environment. Investors take important parts of achieving the sustainability. However, the sustainability always be ignored by investors and the whole financial markets. Under the circumstance, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) supported by United Nations appear. The PRI shows the connection between environmental, social and governance (ESG)…

1.0 Sustainability Vision Thiess intend to create a brighter future together with the communities we operate in, by putting into action sustainable programs, and practices that look for substantial reductions of the carbon footprint associated with most of the core business activities of our organization. This is done by inspiring a sense of individual & collective ownership on what we do and how we do it in relation to our undeniable ethical commitment to preserve and protect the environment…

Strategy and Structure for Implementing Them There are two key components to UPS’s corporate sustainability strategy. First, we have the materiality assessment process. The goal of the materiality assessment process is to gather information and evaluate the company in terms of its sustainability. Feedback from government agencies and communities, interviews with management personnel and stakeholder group, are common things you can expect to see on this assessment. After data has been gathered…

2.4 CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY THEORIES Rezaee (2017:69-73) discusses several theories including shareholder, stakeholder, resource-based view of the firm, institutional, legitimacy, and stewardship relevant to corporate sustainability. These theories can collectively explain the interrelated dimensions of sustainability performance and their integrated link to corporate culture, business model, and managerial strategies, processes, and practices and their implications for international…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The company which we as a group selected for Sustainability is Coca-cola.It comes under the non alcoholic beverages segment.So we studied all the activities which Coke is doing as a part of their Sustainable innovation and we divided two major topics among each of us.The topic which I chose was Climate protection and Sustainable Agriculture.As protecting the environment was the need of the hour I took up these two topics as I found these two quite interesting.Coke is doing a…