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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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Delivering the GRI Standards in Your Language
Later this year, a major update to the GRI Universal Standards will publish – the foundation for all reporting through GRI – as well as a first Sector Standard for oil and gas. To ensure these new GRI Standards are accessible to organizations around the world, a process is underway to produce translations.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New and Revised Human Rights Standards to be Explored
A survey has launched to seek views on the priority human rights issues that could be included in future in revised or new GRI Standards.

Sustainable Development Goals

Enabling companies to report on the SDGs
It is now even easier for organizations to communicate their efforts to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by using the most widely adopted standards for sustainability reporting – the GRI Standards.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Three GRI Standards Come Into Effect for Sustainability Reports in 2021
Companies disclosing their impacts through the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards are to adhere to three new and updated standards, for reports they publish from this year onward.

Responsible Production & Consumption

GRI Waste Standard Available in Nine Languages
The GRI Waste Standard is now provided in nine languages. In addition to English, translations have launched in Arabic, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability Reporting Is Growing, With GRI the Global Common Language
GRI has welcomed research that shows a record number of companies, spanning sectors and geographic regions, are voluntarily choosing to disclose their sustainability impacts – with the GRI Standards the most widely used for reporting.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Understanding Waste Impacts Can Unlock New Opportunities
With COVID-19 disrupting commercial activities around the globe, one of the many knock-on effects has been on the composition and volume of waste generated by organizations.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Standards Available in Portuguese
Organizations in Brazil, Portugal and eight other countries have improved access to the world’s most widely used standards for sustainability reporting, following publication of the GRI Standards in Portuguese.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Enabling High-Impact Sectors to Respond to Shared Sustainability Challenges
GRI are developing a Sector Standard to help oil and gas companies address their sustainability impacts. Contribute now to the public comment period.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability Metrics Debate Must Include Multi-Stakeholder Input
GRI has cautiously welcomed a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) that identifies sustainability metrics that members of the International Business Council (IBC) should disclose, while highlighting that it does not go far enough.

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