22 February 2012 – Jonathon will be spending the next week in Amman (Jordan), where he will be running a workshop aimed at building regional expertise in corporate sustainability. This forms part of a broader project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) that targets eight countries – Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia – with the aim of promoting sustainable development within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
1 February 2012 – The IFC’s Global Corporate Governance Forum today published a Private Sector Opinion featuring an article by Jonathon Hanks and Louise Gardiner, with a Foreword by Mervyn King, that examines one of the more significant recent governance trends: the global shift to integrated reporting. Drawing on insights and experience gained in advising some of South Africa’s top companies, the article offers historical background and practical guidance for company directors and executives as they approach this relatively new way of communicating with stakeholders.
A copy of the article (PDF) is available for download here.
13 December 2011 – The December 2011 edition of Accountancy SA has an article by Incite’s Jonathon Hanks in which he reviews the concept of “materiality” as applied in current financial and sustainability reporting practice, and suggests an approach to materiality that is intended to inform the process of integrated reporting. The article can be read on the ACA website.
7 December 2011 - Incite and the National Business Initiative (NBI) launched the South African Carbon Disclosure Project Report 2011 at COP-17 yesterday. We congratulate the 83 companies from the JSE100 that responded and are encouraged by this high response rate. We are pleased with the significant increase in disclosure, with notable improvements in certain sectors. We hope that companies continue to build on their present efforts in order for industry to take the leadership position many observers believe necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
23 November 2011 – Alongside the launch of Sasol’s 2011 Sustainable Development Report Pursuing responsible growth which Incite authored, Sasol has published a video about change, value creation and the company’s blueprint for sustainable development based on the five capitals model. You can watch is here. Concept and script by Incite, production by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris.
15 November 2011 – Jonathon is speaking at Sanlam’s Summer School for Financial Journalists 2011 in Pretoria tomorrow on some of the tricky challenges of reporting on corporate sustainability issues. The annual training is Sanlam’s direct response to the King II Report on Corporate Governance (2003) which called on the private sector to assist in the training of financial journalists to investigate the improvement of corporate governance in South Africa. This year’s theme is Climate Change and Responsible Financial Journalism.
8 November 2011 - Nicola will be presenting an overview of Integrated Reporting to the National Business Initiative‘s Western Cape Board Members tomorrow. Her talk provides a sneak preview of Incite’s hottest tips for integrated reporting: how social and environmental trends are redefining the competitive playing field; how to present analysis that looks forwards as well as backwards; how to cut the fluff and focus on what investors and analysts want to know.
7 November 2011 – Jonathon is speaking at the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership’s 9th practitioner seminar in Wellington in the Western Cape tomorrow. He will be running a session on the latests developments and best practice in integrated reporting.
3 November 2011 – We are excited to be working in partnership with Stellenbosch based graphic design company G2 design on one of our new clients jobs – producing and communicating a sustainable development report for a leading financial services group. We look forward to delivering creative output with them.
2 November 2011 – Jonathon was recently interviewed by Bridgit Evans, CEO of Greater Good SA, giving a reader-friendly overview of COP-17. You can read the transcript here. He answers questions on how the negotiations work in practice, what we should expect to come out of the meeting and where to learn more and keep an eye on conference developments.
