Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility
“The Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility’s mission is to lead and assist businesses in redefining and realizing responsible international business practice. It aims to work in partnership with businesses working in or with developing countries to enhance business performance through sound corporate citizenship and responsible international business practices focused on sustainable human development.”

CERES
“CERES is...

• The leading U.S. coalition of environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working together for a sustainable future.
• A community of forward-looking companies that have committed to continuous environmental improvement by endorsing the CERES Principles, a ten-point code of environmental conduct.
• A common ground where groups with widely different backgrounds, assumptions, and visions find concrete solutions to today’s environmental challenges.”

Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development
“The Foundation seeks to be the pre-eminent leader in the creation, accumulation, and distribution of knowl-edge in its field, and will focus on creating prosperity through the best management of sustainable human re-sources, innovation and the ecology. The mission of the Foundation is to create and disseminate the knowledge to investors, management, unions, and the broader community to increase awareness and effectiveness of management practices that deliver optimal outcomes such as better organizational performance and less wasteful products and processes.”

Global Reporting Initiative
“The GRI seeks to make sustainability reporting as routine and credible as financial reporting in terms of compa-rability, rigour, and verifiability. Specifically, the GRI’s goals are to:

• Elevate sustainability reporting practises worldwide to a level equivalent to financial reporting;
• Design, disseminate, and promote standardised reporting practises, core measurements, and customized, sector-specific measurements;
• Ensure a permanent and effective institutional host to support such reporting practises worldwide.”

McDonough, William
“ The traditional measures of cost, performance, and aesthetics are incomplete. We believe that ecological intelligence and social equity are additional measures of quality. We pursue excellence by all these measures in our work.”

Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
“The International Business Leaders Forum is an international educational charity set up in 1990 to promote responsible business practices internationally that benefit business and society, and which help to achieve social, economic and environmentally sustainable development, particularly in new and emerging market economies.”

Sustainable Business.com
“The transition to a green economy is underway. That’s what we believe at Sustainable Business.com, and it’s contagious. We’re here to help you participate in the immense business opportunities inherent in sustainability and to accelerate the momentum. We seek to inspire you and fill you with a can-do attitude!”

SustainAbility
“Our mission is to help create a more sustainable world by encouraging the evolution and widespread adoption of thinking and practices which are economically competitive, environmentally sound, and socially responsible— that is, the ‘triple-bottom line of sustainable development’.”

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
“The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 150 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development. The organization pursues this goal via the three pillars of economic growth, environmental protection and social equity. Our mission is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to promote eco-efficiency, innova-tion, and corporate social responsibility.”

World Resources Institute • Management Institute for Environment and Business
“MEB fosters the success of private sector enterprises that use innovation to improve the quality of people’s lives while protecting the climate and safeguarding biodiversity.”

How to report on The Triple Bottom Line:
AccountAbility
“AccountAbility” is committed to strengthening the social responsibility and ethical behaviour of the business community and non-profit organisations. It addresses this mission by:

• promoting best practice social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting; and
• developing standards and certification for professionals in the field.”

How markets have reacted to the Triple Bottom Line:
Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index
“The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are focused on meeting the financial market’s demands for:

• Rational, consistent, flexible and, most importantly, investable indexes to benchmark the performance of investments in sustainability companies and funds.
• Independent reliable indexes as a basis for derivatives and funds focused on sustainability companies.”

Sustainable Asset Management
“SAM, Sustainable Asset Management, is an independent asset management company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Established in 1995, SAM was among the first asset managers to specialize in the field of sustainability-driven investments. SAM manages institutional and private mandates in line with sustainability criteria. SAM offers sustainability-driven investment vehicles such as the Sustainable Performance Group and various mutual funds. And together with Dow Jones & Company, SAM launched the world’s first index to track the performance of sustainability-driven companies worldwide.”