SYNOPSIS
Environmental, Social and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is gaining greater and greater prominence globally.  In a recent survey of Singapore companies, more than 50% believed that environmental and social reporting would become commonplace in Singapore within the next five years.

So what is reporting, and why is it important to companies locally?  How does it fit into Corporate Social Responsibility?  How does reporting relate to the Carbon Disclosure project?  Why are some investors putting significance on reporting and asking for environmental/CSR disclosure from companies?  And why is it that ACCA, an accountancy body, is jointly organizing this workshop?

All these issues will be addressed in this workshop, alongside providing practical step-by-step guidance of how to produce a report, who it is relevant to and what the business drivers are.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
This 1-day workshop is designed to provide a background on reporting, why it has become a business issue, and to impart practical knowledge of producing a comprehensive environmental, social and/or sustainability report to persons or organisations that are interested to find out more about environmental and social reporting. Participants will have the opportunity to review and perform a stakeholder assessment on an environmental or social report in the session, participate in group discussion and gain insight from past SESRA winners about their journey in reporting.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• What is Environmental and Social Reporting?

• How relevant is it – locally, regionally & globally?

• How does reporting relate to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

• How does reporting relate to the Carbon Disclosure Project?

• Why are some institutional investors looking at reporting?

• Why has reporting become a business issue?

• How to go about producing a report – step by step guidance

• Reviewing and Performing a Stakeholder Assessment on an Environmental or Sustainability Report

• Group Discussion and Review

• Experience sharing from past Reporting Award Winners

• Panel Discussion

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Companies that are considering including environmental and social reporting in their communication; anyone who is interested to find out more about the topic.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ms Carrie Johnson
PAIA Environmental Consultancy

Carrie Johnson has extensive hands on experience in environmental reporting. Since 1994 she has worked with a range of clients, both in the UK and SE Asia helping them establish their environmental reporting. 

Carrie is an environmental & CSR consultant, she is based full time in Singapore. 

Carrie is one of the judge’s of the ACCA Singapore Environmental & Sustainability Reporting Awards and has been giving training in reporting and CSR in SE Asia since 2001.

Carrie is a senior lecturer at NUS, in Environmental Management, and is also Director of PAIA Consulting, an environmental consultancy.

Her clients include Petronas, Shell, Amerada Hess, Railtrack, British Telecom, BAA, London Underground, TXU Europe, Singapore Polytechnic and ISK Singapore.  

Carrie’s first degree is in Geography, from Cambridge University.  She also has a First Class MSc in Environmental Management from Imperial College, London. 

Jointly organised by SEI and ACCA