11th Annual EMAN Conference on Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Accounting - measuring and managing business benefits October 5, 2008

The conference will focus on the assessment of business benefits that can be realised through improvements towards sustainability and CSR performance.

Keynote speakers

• Stefan Schaltegger (Germany): Managing the Business Case for Sustainability


• Daniel Waistell (AccountAbility, Great Britain): The 2nd Edition AA1000 Assurance Standard: Increasing the Credibility of Sustainability Reporting


• Christine Jasch (Austria): UN statistics on the EMA micro macro link


• Martin Bennett (Great Britain) (to be announced)


• Vizy Antal (DENSO Hungary Ltd.): The monetary benefits of environmental management in DENSO corporation


• Sandor Kerekes (BCE): CSR: what is involved and what is not?


• Zilahy Gyula (Hungarian Cleaner Production Centre): Environmental Reporting in Hungary


• Maria Csutora (BCE): Environmental management: estimating the contribution to the shareholder value

Specific topics which will be addressed in the conference include

• Measuring the business benefits of sustainability and CSR


• Environmental benefit accounting


• Tools and experience for CSR and sustainability performance measurement in EMA


• Measuring the contribution of environmental performance to corporate value


• Sustainability issues in EMA


• New methods and procedures in environmental accounting


• Social performance and business success


• Stakeholder influence on EMA


• Sustainability accounting at the macro level (evaluation of environmental amenities, indicators of development)


• Any new theoretical contribution to the development of the environmental accounting field


• Country studies, case studies, surveys and empirical analyses of innovative approaches

Follow up conference

Progress in Sustainable Consumption
October 8, 2008

Conference information provided by konferenciakalauz.hu

Official Website: http://eman2008.uni-corvinus.hu/