The year 2023 is just around the corner, hence it is important to have the most important sustainability reporting dates and deadlines on your radar. With this blogpost, we want to offer a brief overview of 2023 keeping in mind that there may be major differences depending on company size and location as well as…
Revising the CoP: Background The UN Global Compact (UNGC), a non-binding United Nations pact, encouraging firms and businesses to think of, adopt and report on more sustainable methods. To ensure a more straightforward reporting it has identified 10 principles (The Ten Principles | UN Global Compact) forming a value system companies should adopt when conducting business. These principles…
Revising the CoP: Background and Rationale About CoP and UNGC: The UN Global Compact (UNGC), a non-binding United Nations pact, encouraging firms and businesses to think of and adopt and report on more sustainable methods. To ensure a more straightforward reporting experienced it has identified 10 principles (The Ten Principles | UN Global Compact) forming…
Within the last two weeks (from 2nd to 14th Dec. 2018) the COP24 has taken place in Katowice, Poland. This was the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24). The event achieved its main goal to finalize the rulebook of the Paris Agreement,…
The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), a sustainability standard, will experience some changes from 2018. In this article, DFGE aims to share with you the main UNGC updates. First UNGC Update: two different participant options The UNGC is a voluntary initiative to implement universal sustainability principles and to take steps to support UN goals.[1] Before…
DFGE – Institute for Energy, Ecology and Economy is happy to share its second CSR/sustainability report, which takes the shape of a Communication On Progress (COP). What is a Communication On Progress (COP)? In 2015, DFGE produced its first Communication On Progress, a document showing the targets, the actions implemented to reach the targets and…
As a participant of the UN Global Compact, DFGE publishes annual “Communication of Progress” reports. The 2015 report is now available for download (German), and also listed in the UN GC database. In the CoP reports, companies describe the current situation, measures taken and progress made in the fields of human rights, labour standards, environment…
Der UN Global Compact der Vereinten Nationen ist eine Initative, in der sich Unternehmen dazu verpflichten die Geschäftstätigkeit an anerkannten Prinzipien aus den Bereichen – Menschrechte- Arbeitsnormen – Umweltschutz – Korruptionsbekämpfung auszurichten. Mit fast 9000 beteiligten Unternehmen aus rund 170 Ländern, ist es die größte derartige Initiative. Mit der Initiative werden zwei sich ergänzende Ziele…
