GRI

 GRI is an independent international organization that has pioneered sustainability reporting since 1997.
GRI helps businesses and governments worldwide understand and communicate their impact on critical
sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, governance and social well-being. This enables real
action to create social, environmental and economic benefits for everyone. The GRI Sustainability Reporting
Standards are developed with true multi-stakeholder contributions and rooted in the public interest.
• A sustainability report is a report published by a company or organization about the
economic, environmental and social impacts caused by its everyday activities.

• The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) are the first and most widely adopted
global standards for sustainability reporting

• Sustainability reporting can help organizations to measure, understand and communicate

their economic, environmental, social and governance performance, and then set goals, and
manage change more effectively.

• Developed through a process that is:

Multi-stakeholder
Consensus-based
 Includes both:
How sustainability issues are managed
Performance indicators
 A multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop and
disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
 Guidelines are for voluntary use by organizations reporting on the economic, environmental,
and social dimensions of their activities, products, and services.

Performance indicators

Economic indicators
The economic dimension of sustainability concerns the organization’s impacts on the
economic conditions of its stakeholders, and on economic systems at local, national, and
global levels.
 Environment Indicators
The environmental dimension of sustainability concerns the organization’s impact on living
and non-living natural systems, including land, air, water and ecosystems.

Social indicators concern an organization’s impact on the social systems within which it
operates.

Benefits of Sustainability Reporting

• Improving reputation and brand loyalty
• Enabling external stakeholders to understand the organization’s true value, and tangible and
intangible assets
• Increased understanding of risks and opportunities