Global Reporting Initiative Archives - Page 9 of 11

Using Environmental Data for Business Value

February 13, 2012February 13, 2012 by Marc Karell

It’s early in the calendar year, a time when many environmental professionals gather their 2011 environmental data to generate reports that your regulatory agencies require. How much fuel did your stationary combustion sources burn in the past year? How many times was a certain condition exceeded in the past quarter? ... Read more »

GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance

January 26, 2012January 27, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say they’ll be using the guidelines to help meet their environmental goals. The GRI said the Event Organizers Sector Supplement (EOSS) is suitable for all types and ... Read more »

ODVA Announces Network Energy Monitoring Product

December 8, 2011 by Leon Walker

ODVA, the body that defines standards for computer networks, has announced an energy object that it says makes it easier to get energy use information on networked devices. The energy object forms part of updates to the specifications governing the four types of networks under ODVA’s remit: EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Building Initiative, LEED, GRI, International Maritime Organization

December 8, 2011December 8, 2011 by Leon Walker

The Green Building Initiative released its Guiding Principles Compliance certification program for existing buildings – a tool designed to help federal agencies comply with sustainability requirements in federally owned or leased buildings. A 2009 executive order says that by 2015, 15 percent of federal buildings 5,000 square feet or larger must incorporate ... Read more »

Database Will Benchmark Thousands of Reports, GRI Says

November 11, 2011November 11, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Companies will be able to benchmark their sustainability data against information from thousands of other firms, using a database just launched by the Global Reporting Initiative. GRI said the Sustainability Disclosure Database includes data on the sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) transparency of over three thousand companies. This ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: ISO-GRI Pact, Cadmium Jewelry Shelved, Banned Pesticide Lingers

September 8, 2011 by Environmental Leader

Target, Gap, and Saks Fifth Avenue are among 26 major retailers that have reached a settlement under California’s Proposition 65 to eliminate all but trace amounts of cadmium from jewelry and other accessories, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The settlement comes months before the state’s new limit on the amount ... Read more »

Compliance & Standards Briefing: REACH Additions, GRI’s G4, e-Waste Pledge Sunsets

September 1, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The European Chemicals Agency has proposed to add 20 chemicals to its list of “substances of very high concern” (SVHC) list, as defined by Article 57 of the REACH Regulation, Platts reported. Most of the chemicals, which include dichromium trischromate, pentazinc chromate octahydroxide and calcium arsenate, were selected due to their ... Read more »

GRI Cuts Electricity, Heating; Conference Emissions Rise

August 22, 2011August 23, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Global Reporting Initiative’s electricity and heating consumption both fell in 2009/10 while conference-related emissions rose, the organization reported in its latest sustainability report. The GRI, which sets a widely followed protocol for corporate sustainability reporting, followed the same guidelines for its own report, Paper Planes and People (pdf). The ... Read more »

GRI and CDP Detail Expanded Services

July 25, 2011July 26, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Services offered by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) are evolving to help companies at every stage of their reporting, representatives from the two organizations said last week. CDP development manager Patrick Crawford and GRI technical development manager Bastian Buck were speaking on an Environmental Leader ... Read more »

Best Practices: The Business Case for Sustainability Disclosure

July 13, 2011July 13, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Join Environmental Leader for a webinar on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 8am PDT/11am EDT, discussing best practices for sustainability disclosure. Many organizations find that financial reporting alone no longer satisfies the needs of investors, governments, supply-chain partners, and other stakeholders for information about overall organizational performance. Today, 2,500 organizations ... Read more »

GRI and Deloitte to Create XBRL Taxonomy; Alcoa, Shell Among G4 Sponsors

June 29, 2011June 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has started development of a taxonomy for the eXtensible Business Reporting Language, which holds the promise of automating the disclosure of sustainability data. GRI and Deloitte have signed an agreement outlining the project, which would include publication of an XBRL taxonomy covering the GRI’s G3 ... Read more »

GRI Unveils Updated Sustainability Guidance – ‘Most Comprehensive Available’

March 23, 2011March 23, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released guidelines that it describes as the most comprehensive sustainability reporting guidance now available. The G3.1 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines feature expanded guidance on issues including local community impacts, human rights and gender, as well as environmental, product responsibility, labor, governance and other existing GRI ... Read more »

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