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1. Global Reporting
Initiative
A Common Framework for Sustainability Reporting
CSIN Learning Event #24, 23 March 2007

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GRI: Network Organization

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GRI Guidelines Uptake Over Time
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Reporters
Year
GRIReporters

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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 Québec
 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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Sector
Supplements
Sector
Supplements
National
Annexes
National
Annexes
The G3 Reporting Framework
Principles
and
Standard
Disclosures
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G3 Map
G3
Standard
Disclosures
Content
Quality
Boundary
Strategy and Profile
Strategy and Analysis
(Risk, Opportunity Focus re whole
organisation)
Organizational Profile
Report parameters
Governance, commitments,
and engagement
Disclosure on
Management Approach
(DMA) and
Performance
Indicators
Economic Category
Environmental Category
Social Category
Labor
Human Rights
Society
Product
Responsibility
Principles

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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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www.globalreporting.org
 Contact: Naoko Kubo,
Project Manager (
kubo@globalreporting.org)