11th Annual EMAN Conference, October 6-7, 2008 Budapest

on  Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Accounting - measuring and managing business benefits

Host: Institute for Environmental Sciences (Director: Professor Sándor Kerekes) Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Fővám tér 8, H-1093.

The Proceedings of the conference can be downloaded from the following page:

Proceedings

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: October 8, Sustainable Consumption (co-organised with the Hungarian Cleaner Production Centre), responsible individual: Gyula Zilahy, director of the Hungarian Cleaner Production Centre. Separate registration is needed. (gyula.zilahyuni-corvinus.hu)

Optional programs:

Wine tasting. Host: a member of the order of wine knights

Sight-seeing in Budapest (with a short boat trip on the Danube)

The details of the conference will be added later.

Utolsó frissítés: 2012.01.19.