Sustainability Reporting A 21st Century Value Prop for Your Assn
1. Global Sustainability Reporting – a 21st
Century Value Proposition for Your Association
Fred Soudain, Public Affairs Director, MCI Group
Anthony Hodge, President, ICMM
Tom Cecich, ASSE Board of Directors, VP Council Professional Affairs
Mike Wallace, Director, Focal Point USA (GRI)
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2. The growing impact of
sustainability among
EU associations
ASAE Panel Session
Global Sustainability Reporting – A 21st Century Value Proposition for Your Association
Sunday 7th August 2011 - Fred Soudain, MCI PA Director
6. The transition towards mainstreaming
sustainability
• 93% say critical to their
Strategic CEO Success
Priority • UNGC Accenture Report
• Big brands Walmart, Nike, HP, IBM
Supply Chain measuring & ranking suppliers
Revolution
Changing • 76% buy green products (Eur &
US)
Consumer • All brands developing more
Behaviour sustainable products
7. Innovative Companies Focus on Sustainability
Innovative companies are
embracing sustainability “as a
new means to profit”
- Redesign of business models
- Product design protocols
- Production, inventory and
distribution methods
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8. Sustainability is Important to Customers
End consumers as well as business
and government customers are
increasingly driving a company’s
strategy for developing sustainable
products and services
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9. Sustainability Changes Reporting
Critical role that innovative, leading-
edge technologies play to advance
sustainability
Role of reporting crucial
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11. Sustainability: The New Building Block of
Successful Associations
Governance
& Reporting
Talent Products
& Services
IT AFFECTS
Event &
Education
Office Op.
Communication
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12. EU Associations & Sustainability:
A Different Context
- A strong policy push in Europe
- An overcrowded regulatory & standards
environment (60 out 142)
- Not necessarily more compulsory schemes
- Next decade perceived as “critical” in the EU
- EU is a “big open sky think tank on sustainability”
Sustainability is strongly link to Public
Affairs in Europe
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13. But Europe is fragmented
The European Union: 493 million people – 27 countries
Member states of the European Union
Candidate countries
14. EU Associations & Sustainability:
What do they do?
- Increased pressure to report
- From reactive to pro-active regulatory advocacy
- Communicating “sustainability” credentials (PA
Content)
- More and more Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
- promoting exchange of best practice between
country based associations
The EU associations landscape:
No more than 30 associations are role model in
sustainability strategy and deployment
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15. Sustainability & US associations
A 2nd chance for global leadership
- Europe leads on sustainability concepts
- But too fragmented for creating global
solutions
- US associations can learn on the link “Public
Affairs & Sustainability”
- … But are better shaped for creating the
“new building block” (Governance, Products &
Services, Talent, Edcuation)
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17. ICMM: Mining, sustainability,
and reporting
Anthony Hodge, Ph.D., P. Eng., President
American Society of Association Executives, 7 August 2011
18. ICMM at a glance
CEO led 31
Association
20 member members
companies
Over 800 sites in
62 countries
2 www.icmm.com
19. ICMM member companies
Australia Norway
BHP Billiton Hydro
South Africa
Vale Brazil African Rainbow Minerals
AngloGold Ashanti
Canada
Barrick
Gold Fields
Goldcorp
Switzerland
Teck Xstrata
China United Kingdom
MMG Anglo American
Lonmin
Areva France
Rio Tinto
Japan
Mitsubishi Materials United States
JX Nippon Mining & Metals Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Sumitomo Metal Mining Newmont
3 www.icmm.com
21. Where do we come from?
4 regional reports
23 global workshops
175 research projects
50,000 people involved
5 www.icmm.com
22. ICMM member commitments
10 principles for sustainable development 6 position statements
1. Implement ethical business practices Mining and Protected Areas
and apply good corporate governance
Mining: Partnerships for
2. Integrate SD in corporate decision- making Development
3. Uphold fundamental human rights Climate Change
4. Manage risks based on sound science Mining and Indigenous Peoples
5/6. Improve environment, health and safety Mercury Risk Management
performance continuously
Transparency of Mineral
7. Conserve biodiversity & conduct integrated Revenues
land use planning
8. Apply materials and product stewardship
9. Contribute to community development
10. Publicly report, independently assure
and engage openly and transparently
6 www.icmm.com
23. Delivering on the commitments
Robust entry criteria Clear performance Reporting... and
and process expectations redress?
7 www.icmm.com
24. Key to effective applied sustainability
Addressing the
business process...
.....as much as its substance
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25. Collaboration, inevitably more in the future, not less
A risk assessment framework for relations between EI companies and public and
private security providers to ensure respect for human rights
Multi-
stake-
holder
initiatives Verification/publication of company payments and government revenues from EI
sector. Civil society involvement to increase government accountability
Mandatory principles, reporting and third party assurance
Industry-
led NGO calls to further toughen reporting & governance requirements
initiatives
IFC Performance standards: ‘do no harm’ social and environmental safeguards
Gov’t / European Multi- Equator principles. Financial industry benchmark for social & environmental risk
inter- Stakeholder assessment and management in project financing
Forum on CSR
gov’t
initiatives
Dodd-Frank Act. Reporting requirements for companies that source minerals from
US government
the DRC; health and safety performance of coal companies; disclosure of payments
to governments
9 www.icmm.com
26. Transition to Sustainable Development
“4” + “5 (Excellent),” All Stakeholders, 2007–2010
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ICMM member companies
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Forest
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Mining
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Electrical utilities 2010
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Packaging
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Chemical
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Oil & Gas
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ICMM members’ better performance is evidence that the ICMM principles and guidelines have a very positive
effect. In light of the recent oil and gas environmental disasters that have occurred (i.e., the Gulf of Mexico oil
spill), it is perhaps not surprising that stakeholders have given the oil and gas industry the lowest rating of all
industries tested.
2007 Subsample: Those who have heard of ICMM (n=623)
10 www.icmm.com
27. Looking Forward (1 of 2)
1 Increasing public concerns about:
Climate
Water Human rights
change
Corruption and Workplace
Biodiversity
transparency fatalities
Distribution of economic
Indigenous Peoples’ role
benefits of mining;
in decision-making
poverty reduction
11 www.icmm.com
28. Looking Forward (2 of 2):
Intensifying political struggles over
2 distribution of resource rents
Increased emphasis on corporate social
3 and environmental practices
Increased NGO campaigning on a range of issues
4 (community consent, ethical sourcing, biodiversity, energy
minerals, chemicals management)
Increasing complexity and breadth of
5 issues facing the industry
Growing recognition that no single interest can
6 address issues effectively (growing need for multi-
interest collaboration)
12 www.icmm.com
29. Growing pressure on disclosure and responsibility
Extractive Industries
Transparency Dodd-Frank Wall
Initiative (EITI) Street Reform and
Consumer
and
Protection Act
IFC Performance (2010)
Standards
SEC guidance on
Climate Change Investor-led calls to
Disclosures (02/10) listing authorities and
stock exchanges to
Principles for require companies to
Responsible consider
Investment (800 sustainability
signatories)
13 www.icmm.com
30. The value proposition of reporting on sustainability
Respect and
integrity
Transparency
and Better Better
Accountability relationships reputation
Better
decision-
making
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31. ICMM at a glance
ICMM Vision
Fundamental implication
leading mining and metals
creating value for
companies working
shareholders while
together and with others to
simultaneously creating
strengthen the contribution
value for host
to sustainable
communities and societies
development
Our role: a catalyst for improving environmental and social
performance in the mining and metals industry
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Values and Beliefs
Safety and Health Social Responsibility Commitment
Codes of Business Conduct
Operational Excellence
Integrated and Effective Safety and Health Management
System
Professional Safety and Health Competencies
Oversight and Transparency
Executive Leadership Oversight of Safety and Health
Transparent Reporting of Key Safety and Health Performance
Indicators
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78. Sustainability Reporting Trends
Sustainability
Reporting
Associations
August 2011
Mike Wallace
Director, Focal Point USA
Global Reporting Initiative
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82. Range of Terminology
• CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
• CC - Corporate Citizenship
• SD - Sustainable Development
• ES - Environmental Sustainability
• BE - Business Ethics
• CE - Corporate Ethics
• CG - Corporate Governance
• ESG - Environmental, Social Governance
• IR - Integrated reporting
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84. GRI’s Vision Mission
GRI’s Vision
A sustainably global economy where organizations
manage their economic, environmental, social and
governance performance and impacts responsibly
and report transparently.
GRI’s Mission
To make sustainability reporting standard practice
by providing guidance and support to
organizations.
85. The GRI Guidelines
Environmental
• EN 3 - Direct energy consumption by primary
energy source
Labor
• LA 7 - Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost
days and absenteeism, and number of work related
fatalities by region.
Human Rights
• HR 4 - Total number of incidents of discrimination
and actions taken
Product Responsibility
• PR 6 - Programs for adherence to laws, standards,
and voluntary codes related to marketing
communications, including advertising, promotion,
ad sponsorship.
Economic
• EC 4 – Significant financial assistance received
from government.
93. Global Regulatory Review
More governments are making
sustainability reporting mandatory.“
• 142 regulatory instruments
addressing sustainability reporting
exist in over 30 countries
• 65% are classified as mandatory, the
rest voluntary
• United States
• WH CEQ - EO 13514
• USPS, US Army, etc….
• GSA
• Department of State
• SEC
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100. Association Relationship
Step 1: Compare the Overlap
- Google “GRI Reports List”
- Sort by Industry/Sector/Country
Step 2: Assess the Needs Interests
- Review action in-action of members
- Understand market drivers
Step 3: Engage alongside GRI
- Coordinate webinar/presentations
- Become GRI Organizational Stakeholder
- Enhance understanding reporting
- Inform G4 development
101. Thank you
Mike Wallace
Director, Focal Point USA
Global Reporting Initiative
wallace@globalreporting.org
+1 212 339 0356
Twitter: M_A_Wallace
Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewallace
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