Last week I attended the JustMeans conference "Refining Value: Integrated Reporting and Measuring Sustainability" in London, which brought together leading investors and top CSR executives, including the likes of BP and Nestle public affairs directors. Up for debate was the question of whether sustainability reporting should be aligned with financial reporting, but this led to more questions about whether sustainability should, and could, be standardised at all.
Giacomo Autino manages the Bloomberg Environmental...