GRI releases further elements of proposed next generation sustainability reporting guidelines
17 Aug, 2012
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released two additional exposure drafts related to its next generation of its Sustainability Reporting Guidelines ('G4'). These exposure drafts seek to improve the way companies report on anti-corruption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in their overall sustainability reporting.
The release of the two additional exposure drafts follows on from an earlier exposure draft outlining the G4 project development process and the proposed significant changes to the current 'G3' guidelines. The two topics covered by the new exposure drafts were signalled in the original draft.
Proposed new guidance on anti-corruption is designed to enable companies to report information on their policy, their publicly stated commitment to zero tolerance of corruption, their training of employees, governance bodies and business partners on anti-corruption, and their collective action initiatives towards combating corruption.
The exposure draft on GHG proposes new content for the G4 guidelines that are designed to more closely align GRI’s guidance with the GHG Protocol set of standards, jointly released by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the ISO 14064 standard produced by the International Standards Organization for Standardization.
Comments on the two new exposure drafts close on 12 November 2012. Click for press release (link to GRI website).
