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GRI Introduces ‘Fast Track’ for Sustainability Reports

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative is introducing a new feature — fast track — to give reporting organizations the option to accelerate the review of their draft reports. GRI is fast approaching the busiest time of year, with sustainability reporting deadlines drawing closer. During these peak times, GRI’s Report Services Team ... Read more »

Guide Defines Materiality, Helps with Corporate Sustainability Reports

March 5, 2015March 5, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative and investment firm RobecoSAM have published a guide that explores materiality from a sustainability reporter’s perspective, as expounded in GRI reports, and compares this with the investor perspective of materiality, as formulated by RobecoSAM. In Defining Materiality: What Matters to Reporters and Investors, GRI and RobecoSAM ... Read more »

Environmental Disclosure, Benchmarking Tool Online

March 4, 2015March 3, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

US companies are increasingly disclosing climate change risk, according to the 2015 edition of The Conference Board Sustainability Practices Dashboard. Created through a collaboration among The Conference Board, Bloomberg and the Global Reporting Initiative, the Dashboard is a database and online benchmarking tool that captures the most recent disclosure of ... Read more »

CRedit360 Offers GRI G4 Content in Multiple Languages

February 13, 2015February 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CRedit360 is the first software provider to offer GRI content in five languages after the accuracy of the relevant GRI content has been certified by the Global Reporting Initiative. A long-established participant of the GRI Certified Software and Tools program and already having GRI-certification for content in English and German, ... Read more »

GRI Helps Companies Comply with Non-Financial Reporting Directive

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative has published a document that sets out the links between GRI’s G4 guidelines and the recently adopted European Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information. Making Headway in Europe specifies how G4 sustainability reporting guidelines can be used to gather information, and formulate responses, to ... Read more »

How Well Do You Know the G4 Reporting Guidelines?

February 3, 2015February 2, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative has unveiled the GRI G4 Exam, a first-of-its-kind opportunity for sustainability professionals to demonstrate their knowledge of the G4 sustainability reporting framework and the GRI Reporting Process. Individuals who have attended one of GRI’s Certified Training Courses or Training Modules are now eligible to take the ... Read more »

What is the Future of Sustainability Reporting?

January 12, 2015January 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative has launched a project aimed at promoting an international discussion about the future of sustainability reporting and disclosures. As part of the project, called Reporting 2025, GRI will, over the next year, interview thought leaders from various fields to identify the main issues that will be ... Read more »

GRI Launches New, Updated Services

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The Global Reporting Initiative has launched the Content Index Service, a new service to help improve the usability and transparency of reported data in G4 reports, and updated the names of its Application Level Check and Materiality Matters Check services. The Content Index Service is GRI’s most detailed service for ... Read more »

Economic Gains, Attracting Talent Top Benefits of Sustainable Manufacturing

November 19, 2014March 14, 2018 by Kirsten Korosec

Almost all 12 companies, which included Eli Lilly, Procter & Gamble, Cummins and General Dynamics, surveyed for a study on sustainable manufacturing were surprised to learn that among the biggest unforeseen benefits were meaningful economic gains and attracting new talent. The Success Paths to Sustainable Manufacturing study conducted by Indiana University’s School ... Read more »

GRI Revamps Governance Structure

November 7, 2014November 6, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Reporting Initiative has revamped its governance structure in a move aimed at advancing “robust” global sustainability reporting standards by making the organization’s standard-setting process more independent and transparent. Chief executive Michael Meehan says the move will help ensure credibility of GRI’s standards. The six main features of the ... Read more »

Desso Signs UN Global Compact

October 7, 2014October 6, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Desso, a global carpets and sports pitches company, has signed a letter to the United Nations’ secretary general Ban Ki-moon declaring its support for the UN Global Compact and its principles in relations to human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. The company says it will make the Global Compact and ... Read more »

CEO Water Mandate Releases Water Disclosure Guidelines

October 2, 2014October 1, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate initiative has released the finalized Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines — a common approach for companies to disclose the many elements of their corporate water management practice to key stakeholders. The Guidelines are available as a PDF report and web-based tool. The Guidelines — ... Read more »

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