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GRI releases guidance for reporting on ecosystem services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued a new set of guidances to assist companies to monitor and report their impacts and dependences ecosystem factors including on freshwater, climate regulation and pollination. Under the GRI's Approach for ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released standards specific to the construction and real estate sectors, demonstrating how companies can report carbon emissions, management and remediation of contaminated land, and sub-contracted labour issues ...

Integrated reporting discussion paper released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... GAAP, and melds them with the work done by "the Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project, the Global Reporting Initiative, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the World Resources Institute, the World Intellectual Capital Initiative ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Standardization (ISO), the world's largest developer of voluntary international standards, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), developer of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, have agreed to a closer collaboration ...

Disclosing sustainability risks, engaging stakeholders vital to corporate interests

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Although the growing acceptance of reporting frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is spurring strategic thinking about disclosing and managing sustainability risks, companies and other organizations need to do more, including setting ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... disclose their ESG issues in a form that is consistent with existing disclosure frameworks, such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project," the guidelines state. The guidelines also provide detail on issues that are important ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... is based on current best practices and metrics include elements from the general guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), responsible investment rating agencies, and key performance indicators (KPI). "The focus is somewhat on KPIs, but as ...

ACSI releases study on ASX200 ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... receiving an "enhanced" rating show increased levels of reporting and disclosure with reference to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidances, while "best practice"-rated companies reports according to GRI G3 guidelines, including "reporting to a GRI ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have written sustainability reports based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidances for the 2010/2011 financial year, up from 86 the previous year. The South African 2010/2011 financial year ...

Ten corporate sponsors for GRI's G4 development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative has announced ten companies that will sponsor and support the two-year process to develop the next version of sustainability reporting guidelines. Alcoa, Enel, GE, Goldman Sachs, Natura, Shell will support GRI as it develops ...