Global Reporting

Initiative
A Common Framework for Sustainability Reporting

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GRI: Network Organization

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GRI Reporters

GRI Guidelines Uptake Over Time

Year

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Declared GRI Reporters by Country

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Examples of Organizations using the

GRI Guidelines (appx. 40)

Alcan
Bank of Montreal
Bank of Nova Scotia
BC Hydro
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Hydro Qubec
IISD
Mountain Equipment Co-op
Shell Canada
Suncor Energy
Talisman Energy
Trans Alta
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union

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GRI: Trusted, Credible Reporting

Framework

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The G3 Reporting Framework

Sector
Sector
Supplements
Supplements

Principles
and
Standard
Disclosures

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National
National
Annexes
Annexes

G3 Map
Content

Principles

Quality
Boundary

G3

Strategy and Analysis

(Risk, Opportunity Focus re whole
organisation)

Organizational Profile

Strategy and Profile

Report parameters
Governance, commitments,
and engagement

Standard
Disclosures

Economic Category
Disclosure on
Management Approach
(DMA) and
Performance
Indicators

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Environmental Category
Social Category

Labor
Human Rights
Society
Product
Responsibility

Examples of Performance Indicators

Economic
Financial implications and other risks and opportunities due to
climate change (EC2)
Local hiring (EC7)

Environmental
Materials used (EN1)
Materials used that are recycled input materials (EN2)
Energy consumed (EN3/4)
Energy saved and initiatives to reduce energy consumption
(EN5/7)
Impact on biodiversity in protected areas (EN12)
Greenhouse gas emissions (EN16/17)
Amount of waste (EN22)
Environmental impact associated with transportation (EN29)

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Examples of Performance Indicators

Labor
Total workforce (LA1)
Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements (LA4)
Health and safety measures (LA7)
Hours of training (LA10)
Governance body/employee diversity (LA13)
Human Rights
Human rights screening on suppliers and contractors (HR2)
Violation of indigenous rights (HR9)
Society
Impact on community (SO1)
Training against corruption (SO4)
Product Responsibility
Life cycle assessment of products/services (PR1)
Customer satisfaction (PR5)
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Changes from G2 to G3

Separation of management disclosures and performance

indicators
Number of indicators: 97 79
Economic: Significant changes
Environmental: Mostly clarifications, refinements, and ensuring
feasibility of measurement.
Labor: Focus on making the descriptive process indicators into
comparable qualitative or quantitative disclosures.
Human Rights: Significant change in the section due to
consolidations and refocusing on occurrence of incidents in order to
get to comparable disclosures
Society: Focused on a move towards comparability and also did a
limited amount of consolidation. One indicator added on corruption.
Product Responsibility: Set focused on a move towards
comparability and also did a limited amount of consolidation.

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Find out more about GRI

Use the Guidelines and let

us know!
Participate in GRI projects
Become an OS member
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Visit us online at
www.globalreporting.org
Contact: Naoko Kubo,
Project Manager (
kubo@globalreporting.org)

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