Transparency Matters

Transparency Matters is a blog in which Global Reporting Initiative Chief Executive Tim J. Mohin writes about cutting-edge issues in corporate responsibility, sustainability and responsible business practices. The blog also features interviews with leading thinkers in the international transparency movement. After working in the private sector for more than 20 years, Tim brings a practical perspective to discussions about how businesses can help create the conditions for sustainable development.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Improving Reporting on Modern Slavery
A toolkit to advance reporting on modern slavery has been published by GRI and the Responsible Labor Initiative, an Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance.

Research, Reports & Publications

Towards More and Better Reporting
GRI’s 2018 Annual Report demonstrates how to navigate the challenge of analyzing and accessing data by presenting it online in an accessible and compelling way.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Disclosure Reduces Risk and Informs Investors
GRI Chief Executive Tim Mohin testifies before US House Committee on Financial Services, on corporate reporting requirements for ESG information.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Reporting Frameworks Share Common Founding Principles
Report finds the world’s leading #corporatereporting frameworks have the same common foundations, based on the key objectives of transparency and accountability

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Shape the Future of the Sustainability Standards Global Leader
A global search is underway to find new members for five bodies that carry out crucial decision making and advisory functions for GRI, provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework.

Research, Reports & Publications

Update to German Translation of GRI Standards
Updates to two versions of the GRI Standards – ‘GRI 303: Water and Effluents 2018’ and ‘GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety 2018’ – have been translated into German.

Environment

Clock Is Ticking on a Biodiversity Catastrophe
Role of sustainability reporting and corporate transparency in averting a biodiversity catastrophe.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Occupational Health & Safety: Can New Metrics Stop ‘Safe-Washing’?
Safe and healthy working environments are crucial for sustainable development, and as such, are one of the targets under the Sustainable Development Goals. According to ILO estimates, around two million people die every year as a result of work-related accidents or diseases, and there are more than 300 million accidents every year. “The suffering caused by such accidents and illnesses to workers and their families is incalculable,” writes the ILO.

Innovation & Technology

What Can Sustainability Reporting Learn From the Evolution of Digital Music?
With the Digital Reporting Tool, GRI has taken its first step toward making sustainability data available and accessible in digital format. As we drive innovative formats in corporate sustainability reporting beyond PDFs, what can we learn from the path the music industry took as they evolved from vinyl to CDs to digital streaming?

Sustainable Development Goals

How Businesses Can Do More to Promote Human Rights: Interview With Caroline Rees
The topic of human rights in the context of businesses has been on the rise the past 20 years, initiated by the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. In this blog post, GRI's Chief Executive Tim Mohin sits with Caroline Rees, President and Co-founder of Shift (a non-profit organization working to help governments and companies implement the UNGPs) about how businesses should manage their human rights impacts, sustainability reporting, the SDGs and more.

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