"An understanding of sustainability is at the heart of a future-oriented business strategy: the days in which businesses could concentrate only on a narrowly-defined bottom line are over."
Dr. Gill Coleman, Co-Director, Ashridge MSc in SR - Ashridge Business School
Turkish delegation at GRI Conference, May 2010
The 3rd Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency was hosted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on 26-28 May 2010. The conference attracted over 1200 participants from 77 different countries.
Several participants from Turkey attended the conference, which is an indicator of the growing interest to sustainability reporting in Turkey.
The propositions set out by GRI in the opening plenary were that:
- By 2015, all large and medium-size companies in OECD countries and large emerging economies should be required to report on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and, if they do not do so, to explain why.
- By 2020, there should be a generally accepted and applied international standard which would effectively integrate financial and ESG reporting by all organizations.
We would be following these developments and share on our website the highlights.
If you have missed the conference, or some of the sessions, full length videos of the conference sessions are now available on the conference website.
Some of the Turkish delegation members with Mervyn King, Chair of the Board of the GRI.
