How to link the GRI Standards with the SDGs
Helping organisations show SDGs progress in their sustainability reporting
The new document – Linking the SDGs and the GRI Standards – covers the 17 SDGs and maps them against the Standards and disclosures that apply for each. This makes it easier for organisations to use their reporting through the GRI Standards to assess how they impact the SDGs.
Globally, only the GRI Standards provide a complete set of standards that uniquely addresses all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainability reporters worldwide do not need to use any other sustainability framework for their report.
Revised to cover all new and updated GRI Standards, the document replaces a previous version from 2016 (which was part of the SDGs Compass).
It now includes:
GRI 207: Tax 2019,
GRI 403: Occupational Health & Safety 2018, and
GRI 303: Water & Effluents 2018
GRI has developed tools and initiatives that help enable a strong private sector role in measuring and achieving the SDGs. This includes the Business reporting on the SDGs resources, created in collaboration with UN Global Compact. Meanwhile, examples of corporate SDG reporting were launched in February.
Driving Corporate Action Towards Accomplishing the SDGs, a partnership led by GRI and Enel, continues this year. This project has involved online collaboration forums, to explore how to increase the SDGs contribution made by companies. The next stage will include regional events to develop new solutions and continue the dialogue.
Mapping SDGs-GRI-Update March and the GRI Standards
Key facts about the GRI Standards
- Under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2010, the UN Global Compact adopts the GRI Standards as the recommended reporting framework for companies to communicate on progress made.
- 80% of the world’s 250 largest companies issue CSR/ESG/ Sustainability reports using GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Standards
- Use the GRI Standards ASAP to accelerate positive change
- Laying the foundation for good communication with responsible CSR/ESG/ sustainability reporting
- Are your competitors better prepared?
Also read:
- GRI and the UN Global Compact join forces and enable measuring and reporting on the SDGs
- Use the GRI Standards ASAP to accelerate positive change
- Are your competitors better prepared?
- License to operate – Millennials
- Laying the foundation for good communication with responsible CSR/ sustainability reporting
- How Sustainability/ CSR/ ESG/ SDG reporting gives your company a competitive advantage
- Oxford University: Corporate sustainability and profitability are interrelated
- Sustainability reporting at centre of EU’s 1 trillion euro Green Deal
SustainCase was primarily created to demonstrate, through case studies, the importance of dealing with a company’s most important impacts in a structured way, with use of the GRI Standards. To show how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success – and how you can too.
Research by well-recognised institutions is clearly proving that responsible companies can look to the future with optimism.
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Most importantly, you will gain the knowledge to use the GRI Standards, project manage your own first-class sustainability report and:
- Identify your most important impacts on the Environment, Economy and Society
- Begin taking solid, focused, all-round sustainability action ASAP
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