In October 2016, ISO launched ISO 37001, a new standard on Anti-Bribery management system. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization and has already developed various voluntary international standards focused on sustainability topics, such as ISO 14 001 on Environment Management or ENV 27 001 on Information Security. What is ISO 37001? ISO 37001 is…
Über die letzten Monate veröffentlichte die DFGE regelmäßig Checklisten mit einfachen Fragen, die Unternehmen dabei unterstützen sollen, ihre CSR Strategien zu verbessern. Die Fragestellungen helfen dabei, Lücken zu identifizieren und daraus entstehende Themen zu bewältigen. Nach der Thematisierung von CSR Programmen im Allgemeinen lag der Fokus auf CSR-Themen, die in der Norm ISO 26 000…
Over the past months, DFGE has released checklists with simple questions to help organizations improve their CSR programs. The questions help identify potential gaps that organizations can then decide to tackle. First, we explained how to structure the program as a whole. Then, we focused on the aspects of CSR listed in ISO 26 000:…
The CDP DACH Climate Leadership Award Conference and Ceremony 2016 took place on the 25th of October in Munich. As a longstading partner the DFGE was happy to be part of this event, which was held at Terminal 1 of the Munich Airport. Here are the highlights of this day. Our highlights First, several of…
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) is an internationally recognized standard to report on sustainability topics, and to structure a sustainability report. On October 19th, the GRI G4 Guidelines have officially transitioned to GRI Standards. What are the main differences/changes? New structure The Standards aimed at restructuring the G4 Guidelines, it was not about adding…
Mit dem CDP Supplier Engagement Rating verstärkt das CDP (vormals Carbon Disclosure Project) seinen Fokus auf Klimaschutz in der Lieferkette. 2016 werden Unternehmen erstmals separat danach bewertet, wie aktiv sie ihre Zulieferer im Bereich Klimaschutz einbinden (siehe Pressemitteilung des CDP). Das CDP Supplier Engagement Rating bewertet Unternehmen auf Basis der Antworten zum CDP Climate Change-Fragebogen. Das…
The OECD recently conducted on carbon pricing on CO2-emissions for energy use across 6 economic sectors in 41 countries – 34 OECD member countries and 7 partner economies: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa, which account for 80% of global energy use and of CO2 emissions. What is carbon pricing? In…
The standard in development ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement – Guidance has just reached a second Draft International Standard stage. Interested parties can once again provide feedback before the publication of the norm in 2017. Sustainable procurement, extension of CSR in the supply chain Sustainable procurement is defined in the standard ISO 26 000 a followed:…
Wir haben uns entschlossen, eine Serie von acht Pressemitteilungen und Blogbeiträgen zu veröffentlichen, die als Checkliste für Organisationen mit Fragen zur Identifizierung einer Verbesserung in den Bereichen Nachhaltigkeit/CSR Management dienen. Die dritte Mitteilung in der Reihe ermöglicht es Ihrer Firma, interne Arbeitspraktiken zu untersuchen, indem sie sich auf fünf Hauptthemen konzentriert: Wie bei den…
We have decided to publish a series of 8 press releases, along with blog articles, providing organizations with a non-exhaustive checklist of questions they can ask to easily identify potential improvement areas in the sustainability/CSR management. This third one will help your company assess the labor practices management, by focusing on 5 main topics: Like…
