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• Assurance standards - the evolution continues
  24/10/2008

  Jon Woodhead, director of csrnetwork, examines the new AA1000 Assurance Standards for sustainability reporting, launched on 24 October 2008. 

• Benchmarking: turning the focus inwards
  14/08/2007

  External benchmarking is a useful way of gauging your organisation's CSR performance and learning from practices among your peers. But comparing your company with the outside world is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to benchmarking

• Telling your sustainability story
  01/07/2007

  Ten tips drawn from our many years of experience developing, evaluating and assuring CSR and sustainability reports for companies around the world

• Why don't sustainability reports talk about sustainability?
  01/02/2007

  Sustainability reports are not doing enough to address the role of companies in global issues such as poverty, argues csrnetwork director Mark Line.

• Independent assurance: false sense of security or real test of transparency?
  01/04/2006

  'The truth is an ambition which is beyond us,' said Peter Ustinov. The recent shift away from the term 'report verification' (which implies 'truth') towards 'report assurance' is a better reflection of the nature of the task.

• How to create immeasurable wealth: the secret of CSR
  01/03/2006

  CSR offers a potentially huge financial return, though don't even try to quantify the total return on investment you'll make, says csrnetwork's Robert Weston.

• CSR and the supply chain
  01/02/2006

  The supply chain can be a large CSR risk for a company, but there is little consensus on how to reduce that risk or even to what extent that is necessary.

• Measurement: the Holy Grail of CSR
  01/03/2004

  For all companies, measuring corporate social responsibility is complex; for many it's downright daunting. csrnetwork's Carin Lavery reports on best practice in the field.

• Why bother with CSR?
  The Top 10 Benefits of Engaging in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Business Case
  01/02/2004

  The top ten benefits of CSR presented as a business case.