GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards

Globally accepted sustainability reporting standards create a common language for organizations and stakeholders by which impacts of organizations can be communicated and understood. They provide organizations with a standardized way to describe their economic, environmental and social impacts and increase the quality of information available to stakeholders, thereby enabling greater accountability of organizations. GRI Standards are designed to enhance the global comparability and quality of sustainability information, resulting in greater transparency on economic, environmental and social impacts. GRI Standards are developed and approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) with the intention of those standards being applied on a globally consistent basis thus providing stakeholders with the ability to compare the impacts of organizations.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

GRI Mining Sector Standard Published in More Languages
In line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI's) commitment to provide the global common language for sustainability reporting, seven translations of GRI 14: Mining Sector 2024 have been published.

Environment

GRI Seeks To Clean Up Reporting on Pollution
GRI has started the recruitment of an expert working group to guide the development of new reporting standard(s) on pollution.

Environment

G7 Needs Higher Ambition To Tackle Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution
Set against the picturesque backdrop of Borgo Egnazia, Italy, the latest G7 summit was a stage for delicate decisions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Blueprint for Accountability on Labor Impacts
How are organizations responding to their responsibilities to ensure decent working conditions and fully disclose their impacts on workers?

Environment

Protecting Nature Is Central to the Climate Change Debate
Last month in the United Arab Emirates, the global community gathered for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), resulting in an important agreement signed on commitments and actions that seek to mitigate climate change.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Help Guide GRI’s Standard-Setting Priorities
A global recruitment call is underway to appoint new members to the body that underpins the continued success of the world’s most widely used standards for sustainability reporting – the GRI Standards.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Europe Signals Alignment With GRI Standards
Adoption of new EU sustainability standards underlines progress on global interoperability

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Keeps Up Standard Setting Momentum
I began in the role of Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) just over three months ago – a relatively short space of time yet much has happened already.

Diversity & Inclusion

New Guidance on How GRI Reporting Can Best Incorporate Disability Issues
A new version of the Disability in Sustainability Reporting guide has been launched by Disability Hub Europe (DHUB), which takes account of recent changes in sustainability reporting, including the 2021 update to the GRI Universal Standards.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Digging Deeper in the GRI Mining Standard
A new Sector Standard for mining from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is under development, which aims to improve the quality of reporting over the sector’s impacts – with a public consultation on the proposed Standard closing at the end of April.

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