Third COP Workshop - Incentives and Obstacles to
Communicating Progress
Palais des Nations, Geneva, 2 -3 April 2007
The Global Compact office organizes an annual expert meeting on Communication on Progress (COP) to inform about the current status of COP and to get input and practical recommendations for its future work. This years meeting brought together 30+ experts from Global Compact participants, country networks, standard and service organizations, investors, academia and the Global Compact office. The meeting was moderated by Claude Fussler, Senior Advisor to the Global Compact. The overall question of the meeting was twofold: How can the large number of “inactive participants (participants that do not report)” be reduced, and how can the quality of the COPs of the reporting companies be further improved? The two day workshop consisited of presentations and duiscussions. The agenda, inculding a list of particpants can be downloaded by clicking here . Each of the presentations can be dowloaded by clicking the name of the presenter below.
Welcome, Introductions and the Process of
Progress: What we have learned so far
Claude Fussler, Senior Advisor to the Global
Compact
The State of
COP
Jeff Senne, COP Manager, Global Compact
Office
Two Notable
COPs
• Ana Paula Grether M. Carvalho,
Petrobras
• Michael Hougård Pedersen,
Novozymes
First Findings: The Value of Communicating Progress
Project
Presentation by Stephanie Schlecht and open
discussion led by Greg Unruh, The Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management
The Future of Reporting:
Defining context and how COPs can be integrated into existing management and
reporting systems.
Presentation and discussion led by Markus
Nöthiger, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Incentives and
Obstacles: Why some communicate
• External Change / Engagement – Soledad
Mills, CSCC
• Responding to Investors – Lila Preston,
Generation Investment Management
Incentives and
Obstacles: Why others do not
Open
discussion led by Flavio Fuertes, Global Compact -
Argentina
Open Issues
- To Template or not to Template? – Isabel Garro , Global Compact - Spain
- Benchmarking? – Fritz Brugger, Guilé Engagement Team
- Principles of Excellence in Reporting? – Alan Knight, AccountAbility
- Peer Review - Tara Hopkins, Rio Tinto
- Annual reporting for bi-annual reporters? – Lisa Huggins-Chan, Cadbury Schweppes
- Headquarters and Subsidiaries; How to implement and report? – Angel Fraile, ENDESA
What can we do foster continual improvement
for those who are communicating and help those who are
not?
Presentation by Jeff Senne and open discussion led by Oliver
Johner, COP Analyst, Global Compact Office.
Using the GRI
G3 Guidelines to Communicate Progress
Discussion led by Alyson Slater,
GRI
• Presentation by Anne Gambling, Holcim
• Presentation by Jens Rupp, Coca Cola
HBC
