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Sustainability reporting has moved from a practice undertaken only by pioneers to become standard practice for thousands of the world’s largest companies, the majority of which are using the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Guidelines as a basis for their sustainability reports. While GRI has long been accepted as ‘de facto standard setter’ in providing sustainability …
Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive GRI, will speak at the UN General Assembly in New York today. Ms Fogelberg will participate as a panelist in an interactive dialogue entitled ‘Elements for a Monitoring and Accountability Framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda’. UN Member States have been invited to participate in the dialogue at the highest …
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today announced the appointment of Eric Israel to the role of Director of GRI’s North American office, Focal Point USA and Canada. Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive of GRI, said: “After a rigorous selection process we are delighted to announce Eric’s appointment. Eric emerged as the outstanding candidate thanks to …
Almost 80 percent of the largest 100 companies in 41 countries worldwide issuing corporate responsibility (CR) reports now use the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, according to a new survey by KPMG. The KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2013, released today, found that sustainability reporting is truly mainstream, with almost three quarters …
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Reporting and Assurance Frameworks Initiative (RAFI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to underline their mutual commitment to advancing meaningful corporate human rights reporting. Both GRI and RAFI believe that robust human rights reporting is a key means of embedding respect for human rights into business practices, …
A new business engagement architecture unveiled by the UN presents a major opportunity to leverage sustainability reporting to drive the private sector’s contribution to sustainable development, the Global Reporting Initiative said today. At the UN Global Compact’s triennial Leaders’ Summit in New York, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today launched an implementation architecture that …
A global gathering of 1500 leaders and practitioners from business, finance, civil society, government and labor will assemble in Amsterdam this May to discuss the key challenges and opportunities on the path to a more sustainable global economy. The Global Reporting Initiative’s three-day Global Conference on Sustainability and Reporting will see the launch of the …
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines now rank among the most widely recognized Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) instruments among large European companies, according to new research published by the European Commission. A survey¹ of the public CSR statements of 200 randomly selected large companies suggests that the GRI Guidelines are now referred to almost as …