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…
Am 21.09.2016 veranstaltete die DFGE als Partner der „Fachkonferenz Verantwortung“ (#fkv16) gemeinsam mit dem CDP einen Workshop zum Thema „Mehr als ein Fußabdruck: Klimareporting mit wissenschaftsbasierten Zielen“. In einer interaktiven Session diskutierten die gut 25 Teilnehmer aus verschiedensten Unternehmen 3 unterschiedliche Perspektiven zum Thema Science Based Targets (SBT). Die Science Based Targets sind auf einer…
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:…
Human rights checklist We have decided to publish a series of 8 press releases, along with blog articles, providing organizations with a checklist of questions they can ask to easily identify potential improvement areas in the sustainability/CSR management. This fourth one aims at exploring questions that should help you improve respect of human rights. It…
Financial performance is key to rate top players among a sector. Nowadays, more and more ESG (environmental social and governance) factors are also taken into account in such rankings, stock indices and ratings. Living proof: Gartner has included CSR a scoring criterion in its methodology for the Supply Chain Top 25! CSR represents 10% of…
The GRI G4 Guidelines will transition to GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS), also called GRI Standards. In this article, DFGE wants to give you an overview of the process, of the main changes and the next steps before the final transition. The process (as of the 21st of June) Public exposure from 19th of April…
