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Maplecroft scoops sustainability reporting award for De Beers

21/10/2010

De Beers has been declared the Overall Winner in the ACCA South Africa Sustainability Reporting Awards for its Report to Society 2009, which was prepared, designed and produced by Maplecroft.

This is the third consecutive year that a Maplecroft prepared De Beers sustainability report has been recognised for such an award, but this time De Beers was placed in a category of its own as ACCA created a cross sector overall winner to recognise the achievement.

ACCA South Africa noted that the report was “well ahead of all of the other submissions” and therefore decided to recognise De Beers as the “Overall Winner”.

“De Beers is a world-class report in any jurisdiction on the planet. It could win awards in any country and in any sector,” ACCA announced at the awards

In particular, the judges highlighted the following:

• The report’s risk assessment framework, “stood out” and acted as a “cornerstone” of the report
• The first, second and third-party assurance process, was classed as “unusual and exceptional”
• The fact that the report “addresses stakeholder concerns directly”
• The willingness of De Beers to “address sensitive issues such as blood diamonds”

View De Beers press release - De Beers scoops top Sustainability Reporting Award

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