Six Capitals

A 2013 study . . . Paul Polman in Mahanta, Vinod and Priyanka Sangani, ‘Resist the short term decisions that damage the long term: Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever’, The Economic Times, 8 November 2013.

‘Humanity has the ability . . .’ The Brundtland Report, United Nations, ‘Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future’, un_documents.net, 1987.

‘a whole set of disturbing . . .’ Bob Massie in Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, ‘Can the Miracle Work Again? Climate divestment interview with Bob Massie’, Green American, January/February 2013.

‘[In 1989,] the whole idea of having . . .’ Bob Massie, ‘History of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)’, youtube, 12 March 2014.

‘One of the problems was that every group . . .’ ibid.

‘Don’t wait for the US . . .’ Ellie Winninghoff, ‘Accounting for Sustainability’, Financial Advisor, 3 August 2011.

‘Let me get this straight . . .’ ibid.

‘We built GRI . . .’ Eccles, Robert G. and Michael P. Krzus, One Report: Integrated reporting for a sustainable strategy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 2010, p. 102.

‘expectations that the long-term . . .’ G4, Global Reporting Initiative, website.

‘The GRI was built . . .’ Bob Massie, Eccles, Robert G. and Michael P. Krzus, One Report: Integrated reporting for a sustainable strategy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 2010, p. 102.

‘I have real confidence . . .’ Paul Dickinson in Kaufman, Leslie, ‘Emissions Disclosure as a Business Virtue’, New York Times, 28 December 2009.

Nigel Topping, ‘Don’t Blame the Hammer!’, Schumacher College, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR-0AQR9yMA, 2 February 2012.

Donella Meadows, ‘Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System’, donellameadows.org, http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/.

Waygood calls Paragraph 47 ‘weak’ Steve Waygood in Holmes, Lawrie, ‘Information Overdrive’, Financial Management, 22 August 2013.

‘if the information we rely on from companies . . .’ Steve Waygood, ibid.

‘denotes the quality of being clear and honest’ Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl and Nick Tolhurst, The A-Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2010, p. 402.

‘an old force with new power . . .’ Don Tapscott in Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus, One Report: Integrated reporting for a sustainable strategy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 2010, p. x.

‘Firms are being held to . . .’ Don Tapscott, ibid.

‘The irresistible force . . .’ Don Tapscott, ibid.

In King’s telling . . . interview with author.

‘It’s no good just . . .’ Michael Peat in Chris Quick, ‘Accounting for Sustainability – Green: by royal assent’, Accountancy Live,1 January 2008.

Peat calls it a ‘revolution’ . . . ibid.

‘We all know that annual reports . . .’ Peat, ibid.

CHAPTER 4

‘The proper governance of countries . . .’ James Wolfensohn, http://www.ecgi.org/codes/documents/cacg_final.pdf, 1999.

There is a growing weight of expectation . . .’ King II Report, 2002, https://www.saica.co.za/tabid/695/itemid/2344/language/en-ZA/An-integrated-report-is-a-new-requirement-for-list. aspx.

‘Today, the majority of South Africans . . .’ http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=4520.

According to Patrick Bond, an economic advisor . . . in Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine Penguin Books, Camberwell, 2007, p. 203.

‘The very mobility of capital . . .’ ibid, p. 207.

As South African journalist and former student activist William Gumede . . . ibid, p. 204.

But then Nelson Mandela intervened . . . Stewart, Neil, ‘An audience with the GRI’s Mervyn King’, IR Magazine, 9 September 2010.

‘a motivational tool’ ibid.

‘The decisions had not been made . . .’ Schulschenk, Jess, ‘Richard Wilkinson’, EY.com, 23 March 2012.

‘The 19th century saw . . .’ King Committee on Corporate Governance, ‘The King Report 2002’, Institute of Directors, South Africa, March 2002.

‘There are always ways of getting around . . .’ Mervyn King, http://www.forbes.com/sites/dinamedland/2013/10/21/if-i-had-more-time-i-would-have-written-a-shorter-letter-integrated-reporting/.

‘a big move away from . . .’ Mervyn King and Leigh Roberts, Integrate: Doing business in the 21st century, Juta & Company Ltd, Cape Town, 2013, p. 32.

‘to recognise what the previously . . .’ Schulschenk, Jess, ‘Richard Wilkinson’, EY.com, 23 March 2012.

‘we couldn’t just cookie-cut . . .’ Mervyn King in Stewart, Neil, ‘An audience with the GRI’s Mervyn King’, IR Magazine, 9 September 2010.

‘an act of commercial folly . . .’ Mervyn King interview with author.