The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) produces one of the world’s most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting – increasingly required by companies large and small.
This page contains stories about the GRI and related reporting.
On a typical cold and rainy morning in Seattle this week, Microsoft shareholders, board members and executives gathered for the annual shareholders meeting to discuss the trials of the previous year, along with prospects of the future. This is the shareholders’ only time to speak their minds directly to Bill Gates, and only one shareholder [...]
AEG unveiled its’ first ever Environmental Sustainability Report, coinciding with America Recycles Day. AEG 1EARTH is AEG’s commitment to the environment, conducting their business with the understanding that we are all part of 1EARTH. Who is AEG? It may not sound like a familiar name, AEG is a company that is at the unique intersection [...]
This is the first of two posts on serious gaming and corporate social responsibility. Part 2: Games that Can Change the World. Are you a Farmville addict? Does your son spend hours playing World of Warcraft? While you and millions of others play on-line games to have fun, an increasing number of business leaders, government officials and [...]
Holland America Line released their first sustainability report this October. The cruise industry tends to get a bad wrap in sustainability circles: if it’s not releasing sewage in open waters, it’s carrying invasives from one side of the planet to the other and obliterating local marine ecosystems. Don’t get me started on their impact on [...]
Ernst & Young’s upcoming Webcast on Triple Bottom Line Reporting: Creating business value while mitigation risk reflects the growing trend of traditional financial reporting and sustainability issues intersecting. I had the opportunity to speak with Steve Starbuck, the Leader of Ernst & Youngs’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services Practice. The firm is in an interesting [...]
Dubbed the “Focal Point USA,” GRI’s new office will help increase the number of US-based companies that disclose ESG data to its shareholders. GRI’s New York staff will make it more seamless for companies to improve the quality of their corporate social responsibility reports, as well as offering American corporations an opportunity to have input on the development of new guidelines for sustainability reporting.
Last July’s GRI Certified Sustainability Reporting course sold out well in advance and a number of 3p friends and readers were left hanging. We’ve got two courses coming up in November in Seattle and in San Francisco which will likely both sell out as well. Now is the time to get registered and get your [...]
This is the first in a series of posts on GRI and some of the trends in sustainability reporting. This first piece focuses on the new and growing trend of integrating sustainability metrics into annual reports. And suggests that perhaps your company should consider sending someone from finance to a GRI training. In a recent [...]
How does JustMeans’ new Top 1000 CSR rankings, based on the GRI, compare to rankings from Corporate Responsibility Magazine and the Corporate Knights?
The following post is part of a series on 3p about the global reporting initiative and is part of a promotion for our upcoming GRI certification course in November By Brooks Nelson Getting training to create a sustainability report can be a hard sell. As part of a small/medium sized enterprise I am called on [...]
The following post kicks off a new series on 3p about the global reporting initiative and is part of a promotion for our upcoming GRI certification course in November By Dawn Kelly People learn of sustainability through a variety of sources, progressive friends, business practices, supply chain networks, universities. For me, it was through translation. [...]
Non-profits and NGOs should publish sustainability reports as corporations do for several reasons.
This post has been updated since it was first published Yesterday marked the launch of ULE 880, the new sustainability standard developed by Greener World Media (GWM), in partnership with Underwriters Laboratories. ULE 880 covers five domains of sustainability with 102 indicators: Sustainability Governance: how an organization leads and manages itself in relation to its stakeholders, [...]
By Derrick Mains Just a few years ago, sustainability was a PROFITS, planet and people movement focused on financial ROI and tangible, calculable bottom-line benefits. But an evolution has taken place. Businesses are now starting to recognize that green is multidimensional. It isn’t just a coupling of a reduced carbon footprint and ROI, it is [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that the Enron scandal emerged and “cooking the books” became a common expression. Some corporations did almost anything to beat their competitors and as big banks were caught being leveraged more than 30 to 1, we witnessed another failed regulatory accounting method which has led to the current debt crisis. [...]
For three days I attended the Global Reporting Initiative’s Amsterdam Conference, which was humming with the GRI’s ambitious goals for increasing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting by the end of this decade. But the enthusiastic buzz often stopped when the challenges involving greater American involvement became central to the conference’s numerous panel discussions. One [...]
Bernie Madoff. Sir Allen Stanford. Raj Rajaratnam. Jerome Kerviel. Mitchel Guttenberg. Sam Israel III. Unfortunately, the list could go on. Once you’ve been hit in the wallet (OK, maybe it takes two or three times), you get a bit skittish before handing over your money. You begin to do better due diligence. CSR reporting and [...]
Fancy yourself a writer? Our friends at JustMeans have put together 2 chances to win a trip to Amsterdam later this month to attend the annual Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference. You have until Sunday, May 16th to put together an article on a relevant CSR or Sustainability topic as well as incorporate some of [...]
Who really reads CSR reports? Do investors really use them? I heard speakers from Intel, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Merck & Co., and CalSTRS offer differing answers to these questions during a panel on CSR reporting at the recent Financial Times Conference “Investing in a Sustainable Future.” Merck’s Director of Corporate Responsibility Maggie Kohn [...]
This is the first column in a three-part series on CSR Reporting. Coming next — Part 2: What Investors Want from CSR Reports and Part 3: CSR Reporting: When is Enough, Enough? At the recent Financial Times Conference, Investing in a Sustainable Future, GRI’s Mike Wallace admitted that he hears complaints about the GRI Framework. But, he [...]
Don’t you love it when you are thinking about your best friend, and when the phone rings, she’s on the other line? That’s what happened to me this morning with our friends over at Environmental Leader. Just as I was sitting down to write about the program we’ve been putting together for a free and [...]
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Seattle: June 11-12GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!
Portland & Seattle: June 13 & 14
Sustainable Industries Economic Forum:
NYC: June 27-28Responsible Business Summit USA: Discover how to fully embed and integrate CSR in your organization. Learn how to collaborate with key stakeholders and establish competitive edge using proven CSR strategies. Hear best practices from GAP Inc, Timberland, Lockheed Martin, Life Technologies, Campbell Soup and many more.
Minneapolis: July 19-20GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!
Boston: Sep 13-14GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!
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