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 | GRI

A Modern Identity Reflecting GRI's Purpose

Sep 22, 2020 8:00 AM ET

GRI has launched a refreshed brand and website, created to support the continued delivery of sustainability standards that meet the needs of all stakeholders.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | GRI

Contribute to the Evolution of the GRI Standards

Aug 31, 2020 10:30 AM ET

The consultation on revisions to the Universal Standards, the reporting that is at the foundation of all sustainability reporting through GRI, is open for 10 more days.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | GRI

Get Your Reporting Journey Started With the GRI Standards

Jun 15, 2018 10:00 AM ET

Introducing the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, the first global standards for sustainability reporting. This animation is a great way to learn more about the standards, which will replace the GRI G4 Guidelines on the 1st July 2018.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy | GRI

New Animation: GRI Competitive Business Program for SMEs

Feb 6, 2018 11:30 AM ET

GRI's newly established Competitive Business Program is tailored to help SMEs to break into global value chains by improving transparency around their sustainability impacts. This two-minute animation will list the many benefits of corporate responsibility for SMEs, and how GRI can help them become more competitive.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | GRI

Video: GRI Standards One Year On

Oct 27, 2017 3:00 PM ET

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released the first global standards for sustainability reporting a year ago. In this video, GRI Chief of Standards Bastian Buck speaks about the uptake of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, one year after their release.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | GRI

GRI Standards and Integrated Reporting - Embedding Sustainability Into the Heart of Business Operations

Jun 1, 2017 9:10 AM ET

Coordinated by GRI and the IIRC, the Corporate Leadership Group on Integrated Reporting is a peer learning forum where businesses are exploring the best ways to use the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards to produce the sustainability disclosures for their integrated reports.

Research, Reports & Publications | GRI

GRI Standards: Have Your Say!

Jul 6, 2016 12:00 PM ET

The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) is transitioning the G4 Guidelines into GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards). In line with GRI's longstanding multi-stakeholder approach and Due Process Protocol for standards development, the exposure drafts of GRI Standards are open for review and comment until 17 July 2016. Check out what others are saying about the new standards.