By: Darrell Delamaide
An improved reporting process is helping companies identify gaps in their sustainability practices, which, when closed, can lead to big savings
The latest guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), issued less than a year ago, are turning sustainability reporting into more of a management tool and less of a marketing exercise.
The new version, called G4, introduces a whole set of guidelines on governance and places the emphasis on prioritizing which actions of the organization have a truly significant impact on the environment and society.
The focus is more on ‘how’ the report is produced, rather than on ‘what’ it finally says. In other words, it is designed to engage the organization from the C-suite on down in managing the impact rather than putting out a checklist of indicators.
This was the message in a training session with high-level government officials (including several procurement officers) conducted in Washington on April 23 and 24 by BrownFlynn, a sustainability consulting firm and the first US-certified GRI training partner. This training was conducted in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development at WBCSD’s US offices.
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