A few months ago, I blogged about the evolution of the names replacing the “ESG Report.” I threw out a few names of possible replacements like the “impact report” or the old-fashioned “corporate responsibility report.” But I didn’t mention the idea of a “transparency report.”
Now know that there have been a bevy of “transparency reports” in the recent past – but these documents deal with privacy concerns and how governments and companies impact one’s privacy, security and access to information. See Google’s Transparency Report – and Apple’s Transparency Report – along these lines.
But then I came across this “Transparency Report” from a privately-held company called “Counter Culture Coffee” and it’s more like a traditional sustainability or ESG report. Might this type of document eventually become a trend that public companies latch on to? Too early to tell.
But like we’ve been saying from the beginning, the term “transparency” means something that we all can get behind. Here is an explanation of what transparency is – and isn’t…
