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Welcome to the 100th issue of Ethical Performance – and to the much changed world of socially responsible business.
The first issue of this newsletter back in the last century – May 1999, to be precise – might have looked much the same as this one, but it chronicled a vastly different, fledgling corporate responsibility landscape. The Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines were only a twinkle in the eye of a steering committee of enthusiasts – or at most only an ‘exposure draft’ issued for consultation. Committee member Allen White – still on the scene in 2008 – estimated there had only been 1000 sustainability reports in the world up to that point, and dared to dream of a future where they were commonplace. ‘Can you imagine a world with 30,000?’ he told EP. Since then, according to CorporateRegister.com, at least 17,000 non-financial reports have been published. With more than 2500 a year now coming off the production line worldwide, White’s future is not far off.
Also newsworthy in that first issue was the fact that three British investors – Legal & General, Murray Johnstone and Norwich Union – were opening ethical funds, bringing the number in the UK to a heady 44. At last count there were 231 – a figure rising by the month.
Some things, however, have remained the same. EP is still independently owned and continues to be the publication of choice for CSR practitioners. Here’s to the next 100 issues.
see also analysis and editorial
The first issue of this newsletter back in the last century – May 1999, to be precise – might have looked much the same as this one, but it chronicled a vastly different, fledgling corporate responsibility landscape. The Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines were only a twinkle in the eye of a steering committee of enthusiasts – or at most only an ‘exposure draft’ issued for consultation. Committee member Allen White – still on the scene in 2008 – estimated there had only been 1000 sustainability reports in the world up to that point, and dared to dream of a future where they were commonplace. ‘Can you imagine a world with 30,000?’ he told EP. Since then, according to CorporateRegister.com, at least 17,000 non-financial reports have been published. With more than 2500 a year now coming off the production line worldwide, White’s future is not far off.
Also newsworthy in that first issue was the fact that three British investors – Legal & General, Murray Johnstone and Norwich Union – were opening ethical funds, bringing the number in the UK to a heady 44. At last count there were 231 – a figure rising by the month.
Some things, however, have remained the same. EP is still independently owned and continues to be the publication of choice for CSR practitioners. Here’s to the next 100 issues.
see also analysis and editorial
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