World Wide Networking

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Reaching out for a sustainable future

Around the world networking organizations work hard to engage with stakeholders, communicate the need for change and lead discussion of how to make it happen. The Global Reporting Initiative is particularly grateful for the support our Network Partners are giving to our forthcoming conference on sustainability and reporting, being held in Amsterdam, 4-6 October 2006.

GRI Conference Network Partners

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility A leading Canadian CSR networking organization, CBSR's annual summit on 1 November will discuss the latest and most relevant CSR trends and developments.
Brooklyn Bridge TBLI Conference Brooklyn Bridge TBLI Conference has a mission to "raise consciousness of self interest to institutionalize sustainability in the financial world". TBLI Conference convenes each year in Asia and Europe.
EPE European Partners for the Environment is a multi-stakeholder forum which builds the ground for consensus on sustainability, on which members can more confidently plan actions. EPE serves as a catalyst, in Europe and around the world, to achieve into the future a better balance between the environmental, social and economic elements of life.
AIESA Australian Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability strives for a more sustainable society built on organizations that are socially and ethically responsible and accountable. AISEA offers social and ethical accountability and assurance tools and standards; provides professional development and certification; and undertakes leading-edge research and related public policy advocacy.
BITC Business in the Community is a business led charity whose purpose is to engage, support and challenge companies to continually improve their social impact. BITC’s 750 member companies include 71 of the FTSE 100 and 82 per-cent of the FTSE’s leading UK companies in their sector. Together BITC members employ 12.4 million people in over 200 countries worldwide, including one in five of the UK private sector workforce. BITC has driving their strategy over 200 business leaders from companies at the leading edge of socially and environmentally responsible business practice.
CERES Ceres is a USA network of investment funds, environmental organizations and other public interest groups advancing environmental stewardship by business. Ceres helps diverse groups find solutions to complex environmental and social challenges. For example, in May 2005 at the United Nations, Ceres brought together U.S. and international pension funds, representing $5 trillion in capital, to address the profound risks and business opportunities of climate change.
Ethos Ethos Institute mobilizes and supports companies in Brasil and Latin America that strive to manage their business in a socially responsible way. Ethos helps companies understand and implement socially responsible policy and practice; take responsibility for their effect upon stakeholders; show shareholders how socially responsible behavior supports long-term return on investment; identify innovative community partnerships; and prosper while contributing to sustainable social, economic and environmental development.
UKSIF UK Social Investment Forum is a membership network for socially responsible investment (SRI). UKSIF’s purpose is to promote and encourage the development and positive impact of SRI among UK based investors. UKSIF believes that all material social, environmental and ethical (SEE) issues should be integrated into standard investment practice and that individual investors should be able to reflect their values in their investments.

World Wide Networking

GRI would also like to recognize the contribution that many other organizations make to communication and action on sustainability. Some of these are listed below.

• World Business Council on Sustainable Development
• Global Corporate Governance Forum
• CIVICUS
• BSR

• CSR Europe
• Ethical Corporation (UK)

• Australian Centre for CSR (Australia)
• Community Business (Hong Kong)
• Keidanran (Japan)