New GRI Indicator Webinar Series provides deep dive into reporting framework

Not sure what counts as a “local supplier”?  Wondering where to find your “infrastructure investments”?  Looking up “the precautionary approach” online?

Sounds like you need to go Line by Line.

Line by Line:  The GRI Indicator Webinar Series
May 7, 8, 9, 10, 2012

BrownFlynn’s newest training is a webinar series ‘crash course’ on GRI’s profile disclosures and core indicators Line by Line.  Get tips, view sample disclosures and get your questions answered by our team of GRI experts.

Click here to register today. Sign up for one or all four!

Register now for our new GRI Indicators course!

You’ve asked for it, and we’re delivering again. BrownFlynn is pleased to announce its new GRI course offering, Line by Line: The GRI Indicators Course. This course will offer an overview of the GRI Framework and a deep dive into GRI’s profile disclosures and core indicators, including:

• Components of the GRI framework
• Examples of profile disclosures
  • Strategy & Analysis
  • Organizational Profile
  • Report Parameters
  • Governance, Commitments & Engagements
• Examples of select core indicator protocols
  • Environmental
  • Society
  • Human Rights
  • Economic
  • Labor Practices & Decent Work
  • Product Responsibility

Attendees will also receive The BrownFlynn Bookmarks – G3.1, a bookmarked consolidation of GRI’s reporting guidance, guidelines and protocols in one place, highlighted for ease in finding key elements and the requirements for each of the application levels.

Don’t delay – register today! And, as a special offer, if you register for our next open enrollment GRI training March 19-20, you will receive 50% the Indicators Course! Our early registration for March training is available until March 5 – so hurry to take advantage of this great deal!

To register please visit www.brownflynnlearning.com.

Course on Reporting Environmental Performance

Every year, more companies across the globe are recognizing the importance of sustainability and CSR reporting for improved reputation and financial returns from customers and investors, in addition to increasing cost savings and risk aversion.  In 2008, 84 percent of the 250 largest global companies by revenue reported on sustainability performance, 75 percent of which used the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for their reporting process[1].

The GRI provides a standard framework and guidelines for measuring and reporting an organization’s economic, environmental, and social performance.  The GRI framework yields reliable, credible and comparable metrics through its use of performance indicators in 6 key categories: Environmental, Human Rights, Labor Practices and Decent Work, Society, Product Responsibility, and Economic.  By reporting on the indicators most relevant to their operations, organizations can present their significant environmental, social and economic impacts and opportunities. 

But at first glance, the number of indicators within each category may seem intimidating and even confusing.  To help organizations understand what these indicators mean, as well as where and how to start their reporting process, BrownFlynn Learning provides its signature course, “The GRI Process”, and has recently partnered with Symbiotic Engineering to offer a comprehensive course on GRI’s 30 Environmental Indicators.

On February 11, 2010, BrownFlynn Learning will complement its training session for “The GRI Process” (February 9-10) with the one-day course focused on the GRI Environmental Performance (EN) Indicators.  Environmental engineers (bios below) will help participants garner an in-depth understanding of the standard protocols and methodologies for setting goals and for tracking and reporting environmental performance toward those goals.  Instructors will delve into how the environmental indicators relate to benchmarking, reporting GHG inventories and life cycle analysis, and addressing problems faced by participants.