GRI Awards!

Have your say on sustainability reporting today in the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards and Survey

The TSF Project invites all readers to support the participants by scoring their sustainability reports, in order to make them eligible for the GRI readers'choice awards! (See below for more backgound information and how-to)

In case you need information or support with this scoring, please contact gj.schuite@triodosfacet.nl and your TSF coach will support you with signing up and perform the actual scoring.

From 1 October the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards and Survey will give all sustainability report users worldwide a voice on the current state of sustainability reporting. Sustainability report readers will have the opportunity to score a minimum of two sustainability reports from 2006 and contribute to deciding which reports should deserve recognition in the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards. In conjunction with the Awards KPMG and SustainAbility, the leading global sustainability reporting trend monitors, will conduct an online survey about sustainability report readers needs and preferences.
These results of the Awards and Survey will give all sustainability report users worldwide the opportunity to shape the future of best practice in sustainability reporting.
Both the Global Readers’ Choice Awards and the Survey results will be presented during ‘The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency’, which will be held 7 - 9 May, 2008. All readers who score a minimum of two reports will qualify for the prize draw to win one of six all expenses paid trips to the conference.
Your opinion counts. To find out more information, register and start scoring reports go to www.awards.globalreporting.org

Workshop at Triodos Bank

On 27 September in Zeist, The Netherlands, the TSF project participants joined for an annual update and follow-up meeting. As usual, the workshop boasted with energy and fresh ideas for further developments and activities. There were presentations about new environmental opportunities (renewable energy), about using practical measurement tools for social performance (poverty scorecards), and about the work of the Social Performance Task Force. We studied the possibilities of developing a GRI (sub) sector supplement for Microfinance, and discussed practical approaches to move forward with Triple Bottom Line Management and Reporting.

Some participants explained that the implementation of triple bottom line management and reporting really helped them to improve their organization.
One of our biggest challenges is to keep things simple, not becoming involved in too many platforms and broader discussions. We should focus on execution of activities first, on getting things done.

The general conclusions of the workshop were that the group needs to continue with focusing on the triple bottom line, that the TSF participants should continue to provide leadership and that the tools to achieve this should be strong, yet simple. A key aspect is that everybody should use the same tools. As a symbolic act, that evening all participants embarked for a boat ride together. An action plan is currently being developed by the TSF coaches, and will be discussed with the TSF participants separately.