WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

A sustainability report is a report published by a company or organization about the

economic, environmental and social impacts caused by its everyday activities. A
sustainability report also presents the organization's values and governance model, and
demonstrates the link between its strategy and its commitment to a sustainable global
economy.
Sustainability reporting can help organizations to measure, understand and communicate
their economic, environmental, social and governance performance, and then set goals,
and manage change more effectively. A sustainability report is the key platform for
communicating sustainability performance and impacts whether positive or negative.

Sustainability reporting can be considered as synonymous with other terms for non-
financial reporting; triple bottom line reporting, corporate social responsibility (CSR)
reporting, and more. It is also an intrinsic element of integrated reporting; a more recent
development that combines the analysis of financial and non-financial performance.

IMPORTANCE OF TRUST
Building and maintaining trust in businesses and governments is fundamental to achieving
a sustainable economy and world. Every day, decisions are made by businesses and
governments which have direct impacts on their stakeholders, such as financial
institutions, labor organizations, civil society and citizens, and the level of trust they have
with them. These decisions are rarely based on financial information alone. They are
based on an assessment of risk and opportunity using information on a wide variety of
immediate and future issues.
The value of the sustainability reporting process is that it ensures organizations consider
their impacts on these sustainability issues, and enables them to be transparent about the
risks and opportunities they face. Stakeholders also play a crucial role in identifying these
risks and opportunities for organizations, particularly those that are non-financial. This
increased transparency leads to better decision making, which helps build and maintain
trust in businesses and governments.

WHO SHOULD REPORT?

Sustainability reports are released by companies and organizations of all types, sizes and
sectors, from every corner of the world.
Thousands of companies across all sectors have published reports that reference GRIs
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. Public authorities and non-profits are also big
reporters. GRIs Sustainability Disclosure Database features all known GRI-based reports.

Major providers of sustainability reporting guidance include:

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI's Sustainability Reporting Standards)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises)

The United Nations Global Compact (the Communication on Progress)

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO 26000, International Standard for
social responsibility)

To learn more about how sustainability reporting is developing worldwide, visit the Report
or Explain and Report Services pages

History of GRI
1997

GRI was founded in Boston, USA. Its roots lie in the US non-profit organizations the
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) and the Tellus Institute.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was also involved in the
establishment of GRI.

Former CERES Executive Director Dr. Robert Massie and acting Chief Executive Dr. Allen
White pioneered a framework for environmental reporting in the early 1990s, and as a
result, the Global Reporting Initiative project department was set up in 1997 in order to
develop the framework. The aim was to create an accountability mechanism to ensure
companies were following the CERES Principles for responsible environmental conduct.
Investors were the frameworks original target audience.

1998

GRI established a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee to develop the organizations

guidance. A pivotal mandate of the Steering Committee was to do more than the
environment. On this advice, the frameworks scope was broadened to include social,
economic, and governance issues. GRIs guidance became a Sustainability Reporting
Framework, with the Reporting Guidelines at its heart.

2000

GRI launched the first version of the Guidelines, representing the first global framework for
comprehensive sustainability reporting.

2001
On the advice of the GRI Steering Committee, CERES formed GRI into a separate,
independent non-profit institution.

2002

GRI relocated to Amsterdam, the Netherlands and was formally inaugurated as a UNEP
collaborating organization in the presence of then- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Ernst Ligteringen was appointed GRI Chief Executive.

The second generation of the Guidelines, G2, was unveiled at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. GRI was referenced in the World Summits
Plan of Implementation.

2003

GRI launched its Organizational Stakeholders Program, enabling select organizations

GRI's core supporters to put their name to GRI's mission, contribute their expertise, play
an important governance role, and invest in GRI through annual financial contributions.
The OS Program includes companies and organizations drawn from civil society,
business, mediating institutions, academia, labor, public agencies and intergovernmental
agencies.

2003 also saw the first appointment and initial meeting of the GRI Stakeholder Council
(SC). The aim of the SC was to act as a formal stakeholder policy forum within the GRI
governance structure, and advise the Board on strategic issues. The SC's key governance
functions included appointing Board members and making recommendations on future
policy, business planning and activity.

2005

The GRI Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) was launched to assist GRIs Board and
Secretariat in maintaining the overall quality and coherence of the GRI Framework by
providing high-level technical advice and expertise.

2006

Demand for GRIs sustainability reporting guidance was steadily growing, and this was
further boosted by the launch of the third generation of Guidelines, G3. Over 3,000 experts
from business, civil society and the labor movement participated in G3s development,
highlighting the true multi-stakeholder approach at the heart of GRIs activities.

Concurrently, GRI launched its first XBRL Taxonomy for G3.

GRIs outreach was further strengthened by its very first Global Conference on
Sustainability and Transparency, entitled Reporting: A Measure of Sustainability. The
conference, held in Amsterdam, attracted 1150 participants from 65 countries,
representing business, financial markets, civil society, labor, government, assurance
providers and municipalities. Roughly half of the participants were from Europe or North
America, while 250 originated from 37 developing and emerging market countries.
Speakers included former US Vice President, Al Gore.

Following the launch of G3 at the Global Conference, GRI began expanding its strategy
and Reporting Framework, building powerful alliances. Formal partnerships were entered
into with the United Nations Global Compact, the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development, and others.

2007

A key focus for GRI has always been its publications. Educational and research and
development publications are frequently produced by GRI, often in collaboration with
academic institutions, global centers of excellence and other standard-setting bodies. 2007
saw the release of GRIs Learning Publication: Pathways I. This publication was intended
to provide step-by-step guidance for report makers and users of all levels and types. GRI
also launched the UNGC GRI linkage document: Making the Connection. Its aim was to
provide advice and support for linking GRI-based sustainability reporting with the annual
Global Compact Communication on Progress.

Eager to start establishing a regional presence in key territories, GRI began setting up
regional offices, known as Focal Points. The first Focal Point was launched this year in
Brazil.

GRI also launched its Application Level Service, a new initiative provided to organizations
to check that sustainability reports have the required set and number of disclosures to
meet the organization's self-declared Application Level.

2008

GRI released its first Sector Guidelines for the Financial Services Sector. Sector
Guidelines are intended to capture the unique sustainability issues that diverse industries
face, and are compiled by multi-stakeholder working groups.

GRIs outreach expanded further when it formed an alliance with the Earth Charter a
declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful
global society. As part of the alliance, GRI published a document detailing the synergies
between the G3 Guidelines and the Earth Charter: The Earth Charter, GRI, and the Global
Compact: Guidance to Users on the Synergies in Application.

GRI also released its Learning Publications: Pathways II.

For those organizations considering reporting for the very first time, GRI released two
further publications: Starting Points I and Starting Points II.

GRIs regional reach also expanded with the opening of GRIs second Focal Point in
Australia.
 GRIs second Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency entitled,
Sustainability Reporting Today: The Readers Verdict, attracted over 1000 participants
from 58 countries and 148 speakers.

GRI also set up its Certified Training Partner Program and GRIs first Certified Training
Partner was established in Brazil. GRI Certified Training Partners provide training on GRI
and how to use the GRI Guidelines, and conduct the training in the local language using
local case studies and examples.

2009

Services for GRIs users expanded to include software certification, in the form of the GRI
Certified Software and Tools Program. The Program aims to ensure that GRI content in
software and digital tools is being used accurately. After completing the certification
process, GRI authorizes the use of its content in the software or digital tool and issues a
Permission Letter authorizing the content for 12 months. Certified software and tools are
listed in the GRI Certified Software and Tools Directory.

GRI also launched the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain
(GANTSCh) Program (later renamed Business Transparency Program BTP). Originally
supporting small and medium enterprises in their sustainability reporting, GANTSCh has
now expanded in scope and builds sustainability reporting capacity for members of
business and industry associations helping to improve economic and sustainability
performance in local and sectoral business groups.

GRI launched its Featured Reports service a way of promoting organizations

sustainability reports to the GRI network and beyond.

A third Focal Point opened in China. GRI released a new Sector Guideline: Electric
Utilities.

2010

This year saw the release of a number of publications: GRI and ISO 26000: How to Use
the GRI Guidelines in Combination with ISO 26000, and Carrots and Sticks Promoting
Transparency and Sustainability.

GRI also released two new Sector Guidelines: Food Processing and NGO.

GRIs third Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency: Rethink Rebuild

Report took place attracting 1200 attendees from 77 different countries.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between GRI and the UN Global Compact was
signed during the conference. As part of the MoU, GRI would integrate the Global
Compacts 10 principles and issue areas centrally in the next iteration of its Sustainability
Reporting Guidelines. Concurrently, the Global Compact agreed to adopt the GRI
Guidelines as the recommended reporting framework for companies to communicate on
progress made.
GRI also expanded its regional reach by opening a fourth Focal Point in India.

2011

GRI opened its fifth Focal Point in the USA.

The G3.1 Guidelines an update and completion of G3, with expanded guidance on
reporting gender, community and human rights-related performance was released.

GRI also released a linkage publication: How Do the Global Reporting Initiative Reporting
Guidelines Match with the Carbon Disclosure Project?

Three new Sector Guidelines were also released: Mining and Metals, Airport Operators,
Construction and Real Estate.

In its efforts to mainstream sustainability reporting, GRI launched its Report or Explain
Campaign. The campaign provided a convening space for all those wishing to drive
sustainability disclosure as a mainstream management and accountability tool. The Forum
would track global initiatives and provide news about how organizations were pursuing
their plans towards the goal of a widespread report or explain culture.

GRIs Sustainability Disclosure Database was launched in 2011, cataloging all GRI-based
and non-GRI-based sustainability reports of which GRI is aware. The number of reports
has grown phenomenally in the last few years and today stands at more than 24,000.

2012

GRI hosted its first Australian Conference in Melbourne in 2012, attracting 250 attendees
from 11 difference countries. In the same year, the GRI US Focal Point held two North
American conferences, one in St Louis, Missouri, and one in Toronto, Canada.

A key conference dominating the year was the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development. GRI held a number of side events during the conference and
was part of the Green Economy Coalition and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Coalition led by Aviva Investors.

During Rio+20, a group of leading governments joined together in support of paragraph

47 of the Rio+20 outcome document The Future We Want. Brazil, Denmark, France and
South Africa formed the Group of Friends of Paragraph 47 to advance corporate
sustainability reporting, and invited GRI and UNEP to support the group as its secretariat.

Three new Sector Supplements were produced: Oil and Gas, Media, and Event
Organizers.

2013

The fourth global GRI conference entitled, Information Integration Innovation, took
place gathering together 1,600 delegates from 69 countries.
 Concurrently, GRI released the fourth generation of its Guidelines, G4, offering Reporting
Principles, Standard Disclosures and an Implementation Manual for the preparation of
sustainability reports by organizations of any size or sector.

G4 Online was launched a few months later, a free web-based tool presenting the
complete content of the G4 Guidelines in a dynamic format for those already familiar with
the Reporting Principles and Standard Disclosures of the G4 Guidelines.

GRI also joined forces with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to develop private sector
guidance that would help companies enhance their sustainability management and
reporting with a view to global sustainable development goals and targets. Launched by
the UN Secretary-General at the UNGC Leaders Summit in 2013, the Post-2015 Business
Engagement Architecture brought together these actors to affirm their mutual collaboration
in supporting and empowering business to take action on sustainable development.

GRIs sixth Focal Point in South Africa was launched.

The GRI Materiality Disclosures Service was introduced, a service provided to

organizations to check whether the most critical disclosures in reports based on the G4
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines are located as stated and can be easily found by
readers.

2014

The GRI Content Index Service was launched, providing a verification service for the
accuracy and alignment of the Content Index of G4-based reports and subsequently, the
latest version of Taxonomy covering G4, G3.1 and G3 Guidelines was launched.

Ready to Report? a publication aimed at SMEs considering whether sustainability

reporting is relevant for them and if so, how to start the reporting process, was also
released..

In December, the EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by

certain large companies (amending the 2013 Accounting Directive), entered into force,
further bolstering the demand for GRIs reporting framework.

GRIs reach in South America expanded further with the opening of a seventh Focal Point
in Colombia.

Internally, the organization underwent a number of changes. Michael Meehan was

appointed as the new Chief Executive, and shortly after, a new governance structure for
the organization came into effect with the following key changes:

The creation of an organizational firewall between standard-setting activities and all other
organizational activities.
Implementation of a separate governance structure for standard-setting, including the
creation of a new Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), a Due Process Oversight
Committee (DPOC), and an Independent Appointments Committee (IAC).

An independent public funding base for standards activities was established, separate to
that of other organizational activities.

Greater transparency of all standards development processes was agreed upon.

2015

GRI launched the G4 Exam in 2015, a 60 question, multiple choice examination enabling
individuals to gain accreditation on their ability to use GRIs G4 Guidelines. The exam is
available in more than 70 countries, and successful participants receive a certificate and
their name listed on the GRI website for three years.

GRI launched the research publication Defining Materiality: What Matters to Reporters
and Investors (Part I), jointly produced with investment specialist RobecoSAM. The
publication explores materiality from the reporters perspective, utilizing data from two
sectors of the economy: Technology Hardware & Equipment, and Banks & Diverse
Financials.

Reporting 2025 was a key initiative launched. This 12-month project set out to discover
the main issues which would be affecting companies' agendas, and consequently their
public reports, by 2025. Thought leaders in various fields would be interviewed on subjects
ranging from data technology to society and business development scenarios, and videos
and analytical papers would be produced throughout the year to promote an international
discussion.

GRI also held its first African regional conference in South Africa, bringing together
hundreds of experts and providing a platform for enhancing the value of sustainability
reporting and encouraging greater levels of corporate disclosure and accountability on the
African continent.

2016

In October 2016, GRI launched the first global standards for sustainability reporting.
Developed by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the GRI Standards
enable all organizations to report publicly on their economic, environmental and social
impacts and show how they contribute towards sustainable development. The GRI
Standards are also a trusted reference for policy makers and regulators, and have a
modular structure so they can be kept up-to-date and relevant.

The GRI Standards include all the main concepts and disclosures from the GRI G4
Guidelines, enhanced with a more flexible structure, clearer requirements, and simpler
language.
 GRI also held its 5th Global Conference in 2016. Almost 1200 sustainability leaders and
practitioners from 73 different countries gathered in Amsterdam to be inspired, spark new
ideas and network, all with a common goal: to embrace the new era of corporate
disclosure. Over 200 expert speakers from governments, NGOs, multi-nationals and
innovative start-ups delivered engaging sessions and plenaries, providing a host of
perspectives and approaches to sustainability issues and the future of corporate
disclosure.

BENEFITS OF REPORTING

An effective sustainability reporting cycle, which includes a regular program of data

collection, communication, and responses, should benefit all reporting organizations, both
internally and externally.

INTERNAL BENEFITS

Internal benefits for companies and organizations can include:

Increased understanding of risks and opportunities

Emphasizing the link between financial and non-financial performance

Influencing long term management strategy and policy, and business plans

Streamlining processes, reducing costs and improving efficiency

Benchmarking and assessing sustainability performance with respect to laws, norms,

codes, performance standards, and voluntary initiatives

Avoiding being implicated in publicized environmental, social and governance failures

Comparing performance internally, and between organizations and sectors

EXTERNAL BENEFITS

External benefits of sustainability reporting can include:

Mitigating or reversing negative environmental, social and governance impacts

Improving reputation and brand loyalty

Enabling external stakeholders to understand the organizations true value, and tangible
and intangible assets

Demonstrating how the organization influences, and is influenced by, expectations about
sustainable development

READ MORE Expand-Collapse Many GRI publications examine organizations'

experiences with sustainability reporting, including the benefits they have experienced.
GRI AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

GRI has pioneered sustainability reporting since the late 1990s, transforming it from a
niche practice into one now adopted by a growing majority of organizations.The GRI
reporting framework is the most trusted and widely used in the world. GRI
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING STANDARDS

GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) help businesses, governments

and other organizations understand and communicate the impact of business on critical
sustainability issues. Some of the distinctive elements of the GRI Standards and the
activity that creates them include:

Multi-stakeholder input: Our approach is based on multi-stakeholder engagement,

representing the best combination of technical expertise and diversity of experience to
address the needs of all report makers and users. This approach enables us to produce
universally-applicable reporting guidance. All elements of the Reporting Framework are
created and improved using a consensus-seeking approach, and considering the widest
possible range of stakeholder interests which includes business, civil society, labor,
accounting, investors, academics, governments and sustainability reporting practitioners.

A record of use and endorsement: Of the worlds largest 250 corporations, 92% report on
their sustainability performance and 74% of these use GRIs Standards to do so. With over
23,000 GRI Reports recorded in our database, sustainability reporting using the GRI
Standards continues to grow. New audiences for sustainability information, like investors
and regulators, are now calling for more and better performance data. Annual growth in
the number of reporters is expected to continue, as we work towards a key area of our
strategy: more reporters and better reporting.

Governmental references and activities: Enabling policy is a key aspect of our overall
strategy and we work with governments, international organizations and capital markets to
further this agenda. As a result of our work, 35 countries use GRI in their sustainability
policies and look to us for guidance as the worlds most widely used sustainability
reporting standards. In addition we have long-standing collaborations with over 20
international organizations such as the UNGC, OECD and the UN Working Group on
Business & Human Rights.

Independence: The creation of the Global Sustainability Standards Board in 2014, and
related governance structure changes, have strengthened the independence of the
standards aspect of our work. Our funding approach also ensures our independence. GRI
is a stichting in Dutch, a non-profit foundation with a business model that aims for a
degree of self-sufficiency. Funding is secured from diverse sources; governments,
companies, foundations, partner organizations and supporters.
Shared development costs: The expense of developing GRIs reporting guidance is shared
among many users and contributors. For companies and organizations, this negates the
cost of developing in-house or sector-based reporting frameworks.

GRI AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embrace a universal approach to the

sustainable development agenda. They explicitly call on business to use creativity and
innovation to address development challenges and recognize the need for governments to
encourage sustainability reporting.

GRI is the bridge between businesses and governments, enabling them both to make
positive contributions to the UN SDGs. Business and government leaders can agree with
international principles, but without guidance on how to put them into practice, little can be
accomplished. We help organizations align big picture, principle-based approaches with
the reality of data-driven reporting. This is also true of our work on the SDGs. GRI
championed a strong private sector role in the development of the goals and assists with
follow-up and review, and is mobilizing businesses understand and contribute to the
SDGs. Our work in support of the SDGs empowers the sustainable decision making
needed to achieve the goals.

ENABLING SMART POLICY

GRI championed the inclusion of a strong private sector role in the SDGs, as seen in
Target 12.6.

Throughout the development process of the Sustainable Development Goals, GRI has
worked in collaboration with the UN and other international organizations to champion the
inclusion of a strong private sector role in the SDGs. SDGs Target 12.6 encourages
companies to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into
their reporting cycles.

By acknowledging that significant private sector action is needed to foster sustainable

development, the SDGs leap forward from the Millennium Development Goals, which they
now replace. Going forward, GRI will continue engaging with national and regional
governments, as well as international authorities, to enable smart policy in furtherance of
the SDGs.

GRI - Business Call to Action/ United Nations Development Program Publication

'Measuring Impact: How Business Accelerates the Sustainable Development Goals' is a

joint publication from Business Call to Action (BCtA) and GRI, to share early learnings on
private sector support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines how
companies measure their contribution to the SDGs through impact measurement and
sustainability reporting, and explores how governments consider the business contribution
to the SDGs. The report draws on consultations with 32 companies and 19 governments.

MAKING PROGRESS: BETTER DATA FOR BETTER DECISIONS

GRI supports decision makers who are committed to achieving the SDGs. Our work in this
area is focused on the sustainability reporting process, the value of the information that
comes from it and getting this data into the right hands. By helping companies report their
contributions to the SDGs, we facilitate the creation of data, which governments can use to
track progress and inform better decision making.

Aligning levels of measurement

The UN Statistical Division has developed indicators to measure the progress on the
SDGs, and is currently exploring how to capture private sector contributions. Through
engagement with the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDGs, GRI wants to make sure that
private sector contributions to the SDGs are duly taken into account and smartly
measured.

CBS (the statistical bureau in the Netherlands) and ISTAT (the Italian statistical office)
have used GRI indicators in the past for sustainable development indicators. Furthermore,
a taskforce was jointly set up by the OECD, Eurostat, UNECE and a selection of national
statistical commissions to prepare a framework for measuring sustainable development
and associated sets of indicators. The project additionally explored the vertical
convergence between different levels of indicators: company, national, and international.

GRI also co-founded the Measure What Matters project a global initiative that aims to
bring greater alignment between corporate, national and global sustainability data
frameworks.

GRI SERVICES ON THE SDGS

GOLD Community

In this new era of sustainability, there is increasing momentum for change. More and more
businesses are taking action towards a more sustainable world, but a transformational
effort is required, by all actors, to unlock the real value of sustainability data and to live up
to the ambitious agreements made at COP21.

Working separately, in isolation, is not a viable option, but working together, we can build
toward our common goal - a more sustainable, secure, and stable economy and world.
The GRI GOLD Community, which is the evolution of the Organizational Stakeholder (OS)
program, offers organizations a unique opportunity to join a collaborative, global multi-
stakeholder network to work together to achieve global goals.
GOLD Community members are GRIs core supporters. They are at the heart of a
community that is shaping the future of sustainability and reporting, and empowering
decision making that can lead to a more sustainable economy and world. GRI keeps
GOLD Community members up to date on the latest insights and trends in sustainability,
as well as the latest developments at GRI. The GRI GOLD Community includes diverse
companies and organizations from civil society, business, mediating institutions,
academia, labor, public and intergovernmental agencies.

The GOLD Community helps leading organizations learn how to measure, manage and
communicate their contributions to the achievement of the SDGs.

SDGs webinar track

Stay up to date with the latest developments on the implementation of the SDGs. The
SDGs webinar track provides in depth knowledge on the SDGs, their implementation in
reporting and the implications for business models. The aim is to broaden organizations
knowledge of the SDGs.

Corporate Leadership Group Reporting 2030

The CLG on Reporting 2030 is a 2-year program for leading companies that are interested
in understanding what mega-trends such as the SDGs mean for them in terms of reporting
and how they can better communicate their contributions through their disclosures.

Expert Corner Webinars series

The Expert Corner series is exclusively for the GOLD Community and provides
participants with knowledge and insights on current topics and future developments in
sustainability and reporting. The aim is to empower decision makers as they develop
future strategies. The topics covered are related to the SDGs, like human rights and
climate change.

SDG Learning and Training

Progressing on SDG face to face workshop

GRI offers a range of tailored interactive workshops for organizations interested in learning
more about Sustainability Reporting and the GRI. This full-day workshop has been
designed to support reporting organizations to identify the link between GRI Guidelines
and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).This workshops can be requested by any
organization, anywhere in the world, and are conducted by an experienced GRI facilitator.
The workshop is aimed at report preparers and professionals in the field of CSR and
sustainability reporting. The workshop is designed to be interactive, consists of group
exercises and is intended to be a full day event.

Progressing on SDGs through GRI Disclosures e-learning

What are the SDGs?

Why do they matter for business as well as for individuals?

How can organizations contribute to achieving the global goals?

Where do GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards fit in?

Discover the answers to these critical questions, learn why organizations have role in
supporting and reaching the SDGs, and work through practical examples of how
organizations report on the SDGs using GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.

Progressing on SDGs through GRI Disclosures supports individuals and organizations that
would like to know more about reporting on the SDGs and topic experts who would like to
know more about how sustainability reporting can be a driver for change, helping to
achieve the SDGs.

Our Gender e-learning also reference the SDGs

What is gender equality?

Why does it matter for business as well as for individuals?

How can organizations work towards it?

Where do GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards fit in?

Discover the answers to these critical questions and gain vital insights and information
about GRIs Sustainability Reporting Standards and how your organization can use them
to report your efforts and performance to promote gender equality in your organization.

The GRI Gender Equality course is designed to support individuals and organizations who
want to better understand how to promote gender equality and the role of sustainability
reporting, using GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.