Delta’s 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report was awarded by Baruch College, City University of New York, for its rigorous, complete and rich content, ranking it top 25 among the 629 international companies’ CSR reports. President of Baruch College, Mitchel B. Wallerstein, congratulated Delta for winning the award and praised Delta’s report for leading the industry by example, setting a global standard, and encouraging other companies to adopt it. 

Delta’s 2016 CSR report rated world’s top 25 by Baruch College, City University of New York

Delta’s CSR report structure follows closely to G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The report has passed third-party assurance according to GRI G4 core options and AA1000 Type II & high assurance level. In addition, to ensure rigorous information, limited assurance engagement has been adopted for specific key performance information such as plant, green buildings and products, etc., according to ISAE (International Standard on Assurance Engagements) 3000. The assurance scope for 2017 report will be extended to 8 products and 18 green buildings. 

Since the launch of Baruch College’s ranking in 2012, it is being carried out twice per year, using CSR-Sustainability Monitor®, a mechanism developed by Weissman Center for evaluating the quality of CSR report. This mechanism helps global stakeholders to have a more in-depth understanding of the quality of the report published by companies. Baruch College aims to encourage and promote disclosure of more high-quality information in the report through rigorous analysis mechanism. In addition, it can make use of this to increase the verification capabilities of third party (example: verification companies) on non-financial information, thereby increasing the efficiency of overall market operation. 

(Note: For 2016 reports, ranking is carried out in 2017 with results released in 2018)