Tettamanzi, Patrizia Venturini, Giorgio Murgolo, Michael
Published in
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
This study gives a depiction of what are the general directions taken by international institutions so to tackle the current health emergency and the most pressing environmental issues, such as climate change and COVID-19 (Schaltegger, 2020; Adebayo et al., 2021). The role of companies is crucial under disruptive events, such as a crisis or, more i...
Sollin, Alexander Håkansson, Kevin
Swedish firms have become increasingly accountable for their impacts on the economy, society, and environment. Since the year 2016, Corporate Sustainability has emerged as a relatively new phenomenon forcing SMEs that meet certain criteria to report annual sustainability metrics. However,sustainability reporting has not yet become standardized. Pre...
Erlandsson, Jennifer
Climate change is often the main environmental focus in corporate sustainability reporting, but corporations’ impacts stretch further, making it is necessary to consider additional aspects such as biodiversity, freshwater scarcity, and pollution. While some studies aiming to downscale the planetary boundary framework onto smaller settings does exis...
Lundgren, Hanna Markinger, Rebecka Dahlström, Malin
Background: The arctic ice is melting, and the world is faced with the most significant societal challenge so far, climate change. Companies worldwide have a significant impact on carbon emissions, and therefore, sustainability reporting is an essential tool to increase transparency. Sustainability reporting has an increasing role in the societal c...
Valenzuela Jiménez, Luis Fernando Suárez Rico, Yuli Marcela
This paper aims to critically reflect on the operation of the agrochemical multinational Monsanto-Bayer, specifically with two of its products: the herbicide glyphosate-roundup and the genetically modified seeds. For this, it relies on counter-accounting, a branch of socio-environmental accounting, and uses a qualitative methodology in two phases. ...
Ljung, Andrea Enache, Maria
Background: The introduction of the EU-taxonomy for sustainable activities in 2020 aims to create a shift in investments to foster sustainable growth. It classifies an organisation as “green” or not based on a predetermined set of categories and criteria. However, not all organisations are included. Small to medium enterprises are not included, an...
Bozyel, Julia Sutehall Eldberg, Olivia
Bakgrund och problem: Oron gällande klimatet kring bland annat växthuseffekten samt andra miljöförstöringar är något som länge existerat, men i takt med klimatförändringarna har oron på senare tid ökat inom samhället. En bransch som särskilt blivit påverkad av hållbarhetsrapportering är transportsektorn, då branschen är en påverkande faktor för mil...
Williams, Marcus Yacoub, Ghandi
Background: Disclosure of sustainability within companies is voluntary and previous research shows that there are differences in disclosure within CSR reports that can be affected by various factors. GRI is the most used framework in the preparation of CSR reports. Although some countries use the same GRI framework, previous studies have shown that...
Bruno, Saron Shariff, Said
Sustainability reporting has been increasing in popularity in the last decade giving medium tolarge companies a tool to communicate with their users about their sustainability activity. Asglobalization and technology were introduced and increased in demand many violations startedby companies including human right violation, economic inequality, pol...
Lai, Fong-Woon Shad, Muhammad Kashif Shah, Syed Quaid Ali
Published in
SHS Web of Conferences
Recently, there have been many reports of catastrophic accidents in the oil and gas (O&G) industry which led to huge financial losses and hazards to humans and the environment. Apart from the primary operational (technical) risks, there exist numerous non-technical risk factors such as workforce protection, climate change, ecosystem, biodiversity, ...
