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Article: Don't over-regulate sustainability reporting: Forum
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Jeeva Arulampalam
New Straits Times
06-12-2009
Don't over-regulate sustainability reporting: Forum
Byline: Jeeva Arulampalam
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Business Times
Type: News
GUIDELINES can help companies in their sustainable reporting efforts, but regulators should stop short of imposing too many rules or legislation, lest it becomes a "tick box" exercise, panelists at a corporate governance forum said on Wednesday.
Sustainability reporting is very intangible as each company has to report on its own specific issues, they said.
CSR Asia director for Malaysia Rikke Jarvad Netterstrom said sustainability reporting encompasses the operations of a responsible business that accounts for ...