GCNI Publications

On the occasion of the last European UN Global Compact Local Networks Meeting (Rome, 26-28 October 2011), the Global Compact Network Italy published the following European best practice collection. The best practice collection contains forty-nine articles written by companies that operate in fifteen different European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Sweden. All the articles included in this collection focus on sustainability development initiatives and programs carried out by European companies participating to the UN Global Compact, to help advance sustainable business models and markets coherentlywith the Rio+20 logic.

On the occasion of the last Leaders Summit (24-25 June 2010), the Global Compact Network Italy published a best practice collection. The publication can certainly be considered to be a first attempt to showcase some of the most interesting experiences implemented by the Italian companies and organizations within the UN Global Compact framework. The practices have been selected following a double criterion. Some of them can be considered as real "best practices": they are related to very innovative programs or activities carried out by companies and/or organizations in implementing the ten UN Global Compact principles or in support of broader UN goals. Others, in line with the UN Global Compact approach, can be more correctly defined "on progress programs" such as programs and/or activities implemented by companies and organizations that are not characterized by an innovative approach but are still very interesting in a "learn from each other's experiences" logic. They are indeed, simple but very effective programs and/or activities, which can be extremely interesting for new UN Global Compact participants and/or for the numerous SMEs that participate in the initiative. 

A guideline to Italian enterprises' social responsibility: a reconnaissance on the UN Global Compact adherent companies – second edition, 2009. The study seeks to outline the characterizing elements of the corporate citizenship's policy of the Italian companies adhering to the initiative. As for the previous edition, the sources employed in the reconnaissance have been the companies' information/communication apparatus. Download the Publication.