What is The Global Compact Register?

The Global Compact Register is part of the CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, which is a free directory of company issued CSR, Sustainability and Environment reports from around the world.

The Global Compact Register covers a subset of the thousands of reports featured in the CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory by providing access solely to those reports which include an index allowing the reader to cross-reference the company's responses to each of the 10 principles laid out by the Global Compact.

We offer access to the very latest reports including a Global Compact index as they are published, and provide an archive of reports for each company featured.

Report profiles can display information on the hard copy reports we collect in our own archives and/or provide direct access to the PDF version.

This is a free service for featured companies and site users.

The Global Compact Register is owned, hosted and managed entirely by CorporateRegister.com Limited. Any updates and modifications to profiles on The Global Compact Register can be made directly through us, see Sending us reports / Contacting us.

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Why The Global Compact Register?

CorporateRegister.com designed The Global Compact Register as an online tool to provide information on reports incorporating a Global Compact index. As a ‘subset’ of the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory we do not ask users to sign up for access to Global Compact reporting information as we do on the comprehensive CorporateRegister.com site.

Providing an index to cross-reference responses to each of the Global Compact 10 principles is one way a company might seek to report on these specific issues. We believe this is a useful addition to a full CSR or Sustainability Report, and encourages integration of various emerging standards and principles in a single document (i.e. GRI, AA1000AS and Global Compact responses).

CorporateRegister.com has been tracking Global Compact related reports for several years. You can find all the Global Compact related reports together with thousands more non-Global Compact reports after free sign up on the main site CorporateRegister.com. Signing up will also open up a number of other search parameters, access to statistics and much more.

The Global Compact Register has been developed to help users find information as quickly and efficiently as possible. We hope you find this service useful, and would be interested in receiving your feedback.

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Which companies and reports feature in The Global Compact Register?

1. The Global Compact Register follows the same general guidelines for inclusion found on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, namely:
   
   We aim to include every relevant published corporate report, without limitations of country or company size and across all sectors, public and private. We actively research new reports where they are not provided directly by the reporting company.
   
   We will attempt to contact the companies we feature to request the most up to date information. In the absence of any contact we will maintain a company’s free reporting profile through our independent, periodic research.
   
   We have had to take a view on what types of publications to include on the site. We feature reports and reviews – not brochures, marketing and related publications. We do not feature publications which are sales material, have no reference year, no quantitative data and no statement of policy.
   
   Some of our featured report profiles include sections from annual reports. These sections need to comprise at least 6 pages.
   
   
2. We categorise our Global Compact related reports as:
   
   GC Index
   A report which includes an index allowing a user to cross-reference each of the 10 Global Compact principles to a response elsewhere within the document. This could be integrated in to a GRI index or as a stand alone table, at this stage we do not make any distinction. The index must direct users to specific responses from the reporting company, a table simply stating the 10 principles does not qualify.
   

If you have a relevant report that we have missed, please inform us (see Sending us Reports).

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Are any reports not included in The Global Compact Register?

The Global Compact Register is bound by the same guidelines and research coverage found on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory:

1. The site is always expanding as we research or are sent new reports. There will always be reports we miss, which is why we request full participation from reporting companies and stakeholders to help us fill any gaps.
   
   By comparing the occurrence of already profiled to newly identified reports in our daily research cycles we estimate that we track at least 90% of all reporting companies. Please contact us if you have information on new reports.
   
   
2. Our free service extends to hard copy profiles and PDF hosting. We do not provide links to HTML version reports as part of our basic free service.
   
   A major reason we have taken this position is because research of other sites and our own experience has revealed that maintaining a large directory of live URLs (web-links) is very difficult. Whereas PDF reports can be held on our own servers, HTML only reports are solely available on the reporting company’s website and would need to be linked from CorporateRegister.com. These reports can be relocated or simply removed without our knowledge, resulting in broken links from our directory.
   
   However, we offer HTML report links to leading reporters as part of our expanded PriorityReporter package.
   
   
3. We do not profile reports which are only published in non-latin scripts. This is in part due to the technical limitations of displaying non-latin script reports in most PDF viewers and browsers. We also need to be able to interpret the reports we feature in order to populate our report profiles with relevant information.
   
   
4. We do not feature EMAS statements, as this information is available elsewhere. However, if an EMAS statement is expanded to feature an environmental report, and especially if it covers several sites in one document, we will include it.
   


5. We will not include PDF files over 25MB in size. Files this large are very hard to access and browse, and also demand a lot of bandwidth.


6. With specific reference to the Global Compact: some organisations report on the 10 Global Compact principles in a letter or other communication outside of their CSR or Sustainability Report. These communications are undoubtably valuable, but fall outside the scope of our CSR and Sustainability reporting site. We will not include any documents on our site which fail to meet our definition of a 'report' as stated above.

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Adding a report to the Register

If you would like your report or reports included on The Global Compact Register, please first check to see if your report features in the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory. If already available we may just need to change the ‘status’ of your report to ensure that it features both on the main site and in the The Global Compact Register.

If we do not feature your report on the main CorporateRegister.com CSR Report Directory, we will need the following from you:

Copies and types of report

We need four hard copies of all published reports, past and current. By ‘hard copies’ we refer to professionally printed documents, rather than computer print-outs or photocopies. We include all reporting categories featured on the site.

Electronic Formats:

PDF Reports:

We host PDFs of featured reports: please help us access these files (by providing a URL, or sending the PDFs on CD or by e-mail). We request permission before hosting PDFs.

HTML Reports:

We provide direct links to HTML reports for PriorityReporters only. Please contact us if you have an HTML report format and would like it added to your profile.

Contact details

Who should be contacted to obtain copies of your reports? You might want to send us details of several contacts for different countries/languages. We need name, job title, postal address, telephone and fax, e-mail.

Languages

In which languages is your report available? If you publish in several languages, we use the English version, giving details of the others. If your report is unavailable in English we will still include it.

Other organisations

If it is not evident in the report, it would be helpful if you would inform us of the external consultants/designers/printers/third party statement organisations involved in helping develop your report (name of organisation, brief contact details).

Updating

Contact us to update information from your current or earlier reports - for example if some language versions are out of print, or if company details need updating etc.

Please send the reports and information to:

CorporateRegister.com Limited
G18 Clerkenwell Workshops
31 Clerkenwell Close
London
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Tel: +44 (0)20 70143366 Fax: +44 (0)20 70143367

E-Mail: info@corporateregister.com

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What else does CorporateRegister.com Offer?

Sign up online for full access to CorporateRegister.com. Access our full directory of both Global Compact and non-Global Compact reports and find an array of additional CSR related information and services.

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Contacting CorporateRegister.com and the Global Compact

If you have any questions or require further information about The Global Compact Register or CorporateRegister.com, please email us at info@corporateregister.com call us on +44 (0)20 70143366.

Information on the Global Compact is available from their website www.globalcompact.org.

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