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.
24 October 2011 – Georgina will be speaking tomorrow at a local Marine Stewardship Council workshop for environmental educators on tips for establishing sustainable behaviours with school children. While the session will focus on raising awareness of seafood sustainability and eco-labels with the educators that attend, Georgina will be looking more broadly at the influential role educators can play in inspiring and facilitating good and green behaviours among young people in the school environment.
17 October 2011 - Incite has been working with WWF South Africa and digital agency bigFIG to produce an interactive digital magazine on sustainable business.
Sustainable business is a big idea which comes with confusing terminology and endless acronyms. Across South Africa, businesses have realised they need to move towards their own sustainable practices. But many are not sure how.
The WWF-SA sustainable business digimag, which you can access here, was developed for corporate South Africa to explore the sustainability challenges and to be inspired by the opportunities. It includes video messages from prominent South Africans, examples of businesses that are benefiting from working in partnership with WWF-SA, a handy downloadable jargon-busting guide, and more.
Tip: Because of the video content some of the screens take a short while to download on slow internet connections. Please be patient.
10 October 2011 – A new book on ISO 26000 was published in the UK today, featuring a chapter by Incite’s Jonathon Hanks on ‘ISO 26000 and other standards – the relationship between ISO 26000, the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative.”
The book, Understanding ISO 26000. A Practical Approach to Social Responsibility, provides the background and some deeper insight into the interpretation and implications of ISO 26000, as well as into how it might be used. With a Foreword from Kevin McKinley, Deputy Secretary-General of ISO, and a Preface from Jorge Cajazeira, the Chair of the Working Group that developed the standard, this book is intended to be an important point of reference for all those working on responsibility issues within companies and other organizations as well as those working in the field of standardization and in academia.
ISO 26000 takes the pioneering step of setting out an internationally agreed set of principles and guidelines for the social responsibility of all organizations, whether they be multinational companies, small businesses, charities, or governments.
Jonathon served as the chair of the international drafting team responsible for drafting the text of the standard, and facilitated many of the international negotiations, involving experts from six stakeholder groups and 90 countries.
