Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, governance definitions

Corporate social responsibility, governance, substainable development

A useful glossary of terms used in the field of corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

A-C	D-H	I-Q	R-Z
AA1000	Diversity	Impact assessment	Recyclate
Accountability	Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index	Innovation	Regeneration
Adaptation (to climate change)	Eco-efficiency	Integrity	Renewable energy
Anti-Corruption	Ecological footprints	Internal audit	Reporting
Article 13	Economic impact assessment	Internal control	Risk
Assurance	Embeddedness	ISO26000	Risk management
Balanced scorecard	Emissions	Joint Implementation (JI)	Scenarios
Behaviour change	Emission trading	Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)	Social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting
Benchmarking	Employee engagement	Kingsmill report	Social capital
Best practice	Energy efficiency	Knowledge management	Social cohesion
Biodiversity	Enlightened shareholder value	Kyoto protocol	Social entrepreneurship
Biofuels	Entrepreneur	Leadership	Social exclusion
Biopiracy	Environmental impact assessment	Leapfrogging	Social marketing
Bioprospecting	Environmental justice	Licence to operate/grow	Socially responsible investment (SRI)
BiTC CR Index	Environmental management system standards	Life cycle assessment	Solar power
Bribery	Ethical accounting	Mass balance	Stakeholders
Business responsibility	Ethical investment	Measurement	Stakeholder engagement
Business transformation	Ethical trade	Mentoring	Supply chain
Capacity-building	Ethics	Millennium Development Goals	Sustainability
Carbon emissions	European Emissions Trading Scheme	Mission statement	Sustainable communities
Carbon footprint	Executive coaching	Mitigation (of climate change)	Sustainable consumption and production
Carbon labelling	Fair trade	Nanotechnology	Sustainable development
Carbon neutral	Financial audit	Non-financial audit	Tidal power
Carbon offsetting	FTSE4Good	Nuclear power	Transparency
Carbon Reduction Commitment	Full-cost accounting	Participation	Triple bottom line
Carbon trading	Futures	Participative leadership	UN Global Compact
Choice editing	Gene technology	Personal social responsbility (PSR)	Values
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)	Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)	Phillis review	Verification
Clean technologies	Governance	Poverty	Vision statement
Climate change	Greenhouse gas	Precautionary approach	Waste cycle
Climate Change Act	Green tech	Private finance initiatives (PFIs)	Waste-to-energy
Code of conduct	Greenwashing	Product development partnerships (PDPs)	Water footprint
Combined Code of Corporate Governance	Higgs' report	Public-private partnerships (PPPs)	Wind power
Communication on Progress (CoP)	Human rights		Workforce
Community participation
Competitive advantage
Compliance
Consultation
Corporate citizenship / corporate social responsibility
Corporate governance
Corruption
Culture change

(Source: Article 13 sources and World Business Council on Sustainable Development).