Effectiveness of Sustainability Reporting Tools
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 12584
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), Bali 80571, Indonesia
Interests: sustainable development; ESG; corporate sustainability reporting
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ever since the Brundtland Report (1987) was published, the concept of sustainability has taken centre stage globally. The past decade has seen an increasing demand by stakeholders for more transparency on the reporting of not just economic matters but also environmental and social issues. In September 2015, 193 member countries agreed to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a set of ambitious aspirations. The SDGs consist of 17 Goals and 169 targets in total. Different frameworks, standards as well as ratings and indexes (Siew, 2015) have emerged since then across various industries to track and monitor the progress made towards sustainable development. This issue extends on existing contributions in the literature by exploring and focussing on the effectiveness of these sustainability reporting tools with the hope that there are lessons to be learned from the documented experience of both researchers and practitioners.
The scope of the paper includes but is not limited to:
- Sustainability reporting tools (SRTs);
- Green building rating systems;
- Infrastructure assessment;
- Life cycle analysis (LCA);
- Sustainability-related policies;
- Alignment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
- Low carbon design and monitoring;
- Carbon disclosures;
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting;
- Case studies on the implementation of SRTs;
- Sustainability performance;
- Sustainable projects/portfolio management.
Dr. Renard Siew
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability reporting tools (SRTs)
- sustainable development goals
- life cycle analysis
- rating systems
- low carbon design
- ESG
