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Sustainability Scorecard International Inc.
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About Us

Hello and welcome to SSC International™,

We are a management consulting firm in the evolving field of sustainability scorecard (SSC) management strategy and performance reporting.

SSC International™ 's vision is to increase the wealth generating abilities of leading corporations: their shareholder value, economic growth, protection of the environment and social dignity.

Our mission is to assist CEO's and Management Teams to improve the wealth generating abilities of their corporations by using a SSC management strategy performance system and by issuing annual, public, Sustainability Scorecard™ Reports.

Our values are to try to do our best, to do the right things and to do good.

Business Case SSC management strategy and performance reporting will enable CEO's and their Management Teams to strive for continuous improvements that will:

  • increase the wealth generating abilities of the firm;
  • earn shareholders' trust and meet key stakeholders' expectations;
  • satisfy customers' and primary stakeholders' needs while mitigating strategic stakeholders' sustainability issues;
  • enhance corporate governance/ risk management/ SOA regulatory issues;
  • focus on doing the right operational things;
  • attract and retain scarce skilled-workers; and, where SSC management strategy
  • financial and non-financial benefits will exceed financial and non-financial costs.

An annual, triple-bottom-line, SSC International™ Sustainability Scorecard™ Report will add transparency and integrity to the wealth creating abilities of the corporation. It will allow CEO's and their employees to walk tall and say, "I am a business person. I am proud of what we do."

If we can be of assistance, please contact me.

Peter R. Downing MBA, CA
President
SSC International™
Email: Peter@sustainabilityscorecard.com



SSC International™ Sustainability Reporting Critiques

  • Talisman Energy Inc. 2004 Corporate Responsibility Report   [click to read]
     Missing Credentials

  • Novo Nordisk A/S Annual Report 2004   [click to read]
     Financial, Social and Environmental Performance
    Where leaders will dare to go, others will follow

  • Suncor Energy Inc biennial 2004 Report on Sustainability   [click to read]
     Value added sustainability reporting practices

  • mm02 Corporate responsibility report 2004   [click to read]
     (1) Benchmarked against SSC International ™ 's Novo Nordisk Critique below
    (2) Benchmarked against GRI's, Annex 4, Credibility and Assurance Criteria

  • Volvo Car Corporation 2003 Corporate Citizenship Report   [click to read]
    Three reporting practices strengths and weaknesses

  • Novo Nordisk A/s Sustainability Report 2003   [click to read]
    Did this excellent report really comply with GRI's 'in accordance' reporting condition?

  • Silent Reports 2003 [click to read]
    The second batch of Canada's Big Bank Public Accountability Statements

  • Talisman Energy Inc. 2003 Corporate Responsibility Report [click to read]
    Three reporting practices strengths and weaknesses

  • Talisman Energy Inc. 2002 Corporate Responsibility Report   [click to read]
    Three reporting practices strengths and weaknesses

  • The First Public Accountability Statements   [click to read]
    Canada's nine Big Financial Institutions' first annual 2002 Public Accountability Statements

  • Premier Oil plc sustainability performance report 2002  [click to read]
    A look at GRI's five 'in accordance' Conditions, three strengths & weaknesses and reporting effectiveness

  • mmO2 plc Corporate responsibility report 2002 [click to read]
    A look at GRI's five 'in accordance' Conditions, three strengths & weaknesses and reporting effectiveness

  • Talisman Energy Inc. 2001 Corporate Social Responsibility Report   [click to read]
    Three reporting practices strengths and weaknesses, benchmarked against Suncor Energy's 2001 GRI Report on Sustainability

  • VanCity's 2000-01 Accountability Report [click to read]
    Three sustainability reporting practices strengths and weaknesses

The critiques serve two purposes: to improve the state-of-the-art of corporate sustainability reporting practices for new and experienced reporting companies; and, to enhance readers' comprehension of these genre of responsibility/ sustainability reports.



SSC International™ Sustainability Writings
  • Hurrah for Responsible Business. Three Cheers for Sustainability Profits! [click to read]
     June 1, 2005 address by Peter R. Downing at Le Conférence de Montréal

  • The State-of-the-art of Corporate Sustainability Management: GRI reporting, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and sustainability scorecarding by Peter R. Downing [click to read]
     The Social Responsibility World Book, 1st Edition, November 2004 in collaboration with
    Ansted University 's Social Responsibility Research Department, Penang, Malaysia

  • Corporate Accountability and Public Accountability Statements by Connie Hart   [click to read]
    SPIRIT --- BC Credit Union Community Involvement Newsletter, Issue 23, June 2003  

  • Brief: Public Accountability Statements and Public Interest in Bank Mergers [click to read]
    Standing House of Commons Committee on Finance January 2003  

  • The GRI and corporate reporting   [click to read]
    From the perspective of GRI reporting companies including comments on the August 2002 GRI Guidelines, Ethical Corporation magazine, January 2003 

  • Letter to the Editor: There's no misunderstanding!   [click to read]
    Ethical Corporation Magazine Online, Letter to the Editor from Peter R. Downing, June 9, 2003  

  • Why Public Accountability Statements just for banks   [click to read]
    Policy Options, Journal of the institute for Research on Public Policy, September 2001

  • A Global "License to Operate"? - June 2001  [click to read]
    • Leading Journal of Corporate Governance May/June 2001 Okemos, Michigan, USA

  • CC = BF3: Reporting Corporate Capitalism Practices   [click to read]
    TGI's concepts using GRI Sustainability Guidelines  

For first time and repeat GRI reporting companies, CEO's, SRI investors, business and community stakeholders, civil society groups and educators/ students in all disciplines.


Psst! 10 Activists Web sites   [click to read]

What every corporate board director and CEO should know about current activists' issues but are just too shy to ask.


Students Corner  [click to read]
Five term paper topics on corporate citizenship / sustainability reporting practices.
  • GRI Corporate Citizenship Reporting Practices
  • Corporate Citizenship Web site Reporting Practices
  • Codes, Codes and more Codes of Business Conduct
  • Board of Directors Looking for Activists' Issues
  • Readings Review in Corporate Citizenship


Archives
  • IPO launch with perils (October 12, 1998) TGI's three phases of an IPO   [click to read]
  • Playing the New Board Game (June 24, 1998) Corporate Governance in Canada   [click to read]
Two TGI Golden Oldies web site"hits". Ideas are still current !


We Are / Contact / Feedback

Yes, we're open for your business. May we help you?
Please tell us what you think of TGI's CC = BF3 concept


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The paths the webmaster has woven


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Peter R. Downing MBA, CA
email:  info@sustainabilityscorecard.com



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SSC International
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email: info@sustainabilityscorecard.com

July 3, 2007