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Overview

Resource ID: INDIGO-ARES-0145

Link: https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/

The GRI Standards are the first global standards for sustainability reporting. They feature a modular, interrelated structure, and represent the global best practice for reporting on a range of economic, environmental and social impacts.

The modular, interrelated GRI Standards are designed primarily to be used as a set, to prepare a sustainability report focused on material topics. The three universal Standards are used by every organization that prepares a sustainability report. An organization also chooses from the topic-specific Standards to report on its material topics – economic, environmental or social.
Preparing a report in accordance with the GRI Standards provides an inclusive picture of an organization’s material topics, their related impacts, and how they are managed. An organization can also use all or part of selected GRI Standards to report specific information.

More details

Impact goal: Health, Defence, Housing, Agnostic, Democracy, Education, Well being, SDG oriented, Social impact, Local rejuvenation, Sustainability eco, Development poverty reduction, Employment financial well being

Internal/external: External, Internal

Leader: GRI

Method: Observation, Operational data, Framework agnostic

Output format: Ordinal, Agnostic, Qualitative only, Monetary valuation, Quant but no index, Non monetary quant index

Scale: Meso

Sourcing: Self driven

Time frame: Ongoing, Retrospective

Type: Reporting standards

Used in sectors: Csr, Governance policy, Social enterprises, Developed countries

Who: Third sector, Public sector, Private sector

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