Sustainability Reporting Leaders Including Danone, Vodafone,Coca?Cola and Novo Nordisk Discuss Ways to Improve Corporate Transparency and Accountability

In the current economic climate, stakeholders are putting increasing pressure on companies to be transparent and accountable in how they report on social and environmental issues.

While this is already widely accepted - the number of CR reports published per year has increased by a whopping 10 000 % in the past 10 years – the challenge is now to produce the best possible report.

But how do the leaders manage to deliver an effective and thorough report, whilst making sure that their stakeholders actually read it?

The CR Reporting & Communications Summit gathers CSR leaders including Alliance Boots, Fortis, Telefonica and Nestlé to address this particular challenge, as well as topics ranging from materiality and multi–stakeholder audiences to assurance and employee engagement - as defined by Ethical Corp research with CSR managers.

A CR report is a recognized risk management tool in a company´s reputation, but it´s also a source of financial opportunities, as GRI Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen, a speaker at the summit, explains: "Transparent, trusted information that yields good investment decisions offers a strong opportunity for 21st Century companies".

After numerous conversations with CSR managers, Ethical Corp has found that one of their toughest challenges is actually to justify CR reporting – and CR in general – to their board management.

In response to this, the second day of the summit opens with a plenary session focusing on the value of CR reports, led by Novo Nordisk, The Guardian newspaper and Fortis.

Other speakers include Tata Group, Bayer AG, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone, Danone, Shell and many more.

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