Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) services

GRI’s Business Transparency Program  supports groups of companies during their first reporting cycles, from introducing them to sustainability and transparency to handholding them in publishing their first reports. If you want to foster increased transparency and accountability amongst a group of businesses, GRI’s Business Transparency Program can help. The Program helps groups of businesses achieve competitive advantage, enhance their reputation and stimulate innovation.

The GRI Certified Software and Tools Program enables access to software and tools with accurate GRI content, helping you collect data and manage the reporting process. GRI certified software and tools come with the guarantee that the relevant content from the GRI Standards is correct, enabling robust and transparent reporting. The G4 Guidelines have expired on June 30th 2018. The GRI Standards are the most current and recognized version of GRI reporting. GRI therefore only accepts applications for tools which contain content from the GRI Standards.

Manage your GRI disclosures and create an accurate GRI Content Index. GRI`s Content Index Tool helps you build your Content Index by generating a customized template based on your preferred `in accordance` option, together with your selected material topics. A complete and accurate GRI Content Index is the navigation tool of a GRI report: it makes information traceable, increasing the value of your reported data and the transparency of your report.

GRI’s E-Learning Program is designed to offer an interactive educational experience to participants: from beginners to senior professionals in the world of sustainability. This program helps its diverse participants achieve a deeper understanding of key sustainability topics.

GRI Standards have superseded the G4 Guidelines, which have been phased out on June 30th 2018. The use of the GRI Standards will be required for all reports or other materials published on or after July 1st 2018. As of now, the GRI Services Team only accepts service application for GRI Standards reports.

Increase the accuracy and usability of your GRI content index. The GRI Content Index Service helps report preparers to improve the accuracy and usability of their GRI content index. Its purpose is to ensure that your content index is in line with the requirements of the GRI Standards. GRI Standards have superseded the G4 Guidelines, which have been phased out on June 30th 2018. The use of the GRI Standards will be required for all reports or other materials published on or after July 1st 2018. As of now, the GRI Services Team only accepts service applications for GRI Standards reports. The GRI content index is the main navigation tool of your report, and the first point of reference for report users. This service will confirm that your content index is accurate, and that all disclosures are labeled correctly within your report.

Ensure the clarity of your materiality disclosures. The GRI Standards and G4 Guidelines emphasize the need for organizations to focus their reporting on material topics. The Materiality Disclosures Service focuses on the disclosures you provide about the materiality assessment used for your report, stakeholder engagement, how you have defined the content of your report; and how you have defined the boundary for each topic. This service confirms that your disclosures are in line with the GRI Standards or G4 Guidelines.

Increase the transparency of your `GRI-referenced` material. Through their modular structure, the GRI Standards offer more flexibility to reporters to select the specific content relevant for them. This option is referred to as a `GRI-referenced` claim. It is appropriate for an organization that wants to report on their economic, environmental and/or social impacts, but which are not looking to use the GRI Standards to provide a full picture of its material topics and related impacts. The GRI-Referenced Service confirms that the claim included in the published materials is aligned with the requirements of GRI 101, clause 3.3 on `Using selected Standards with a GRI-referenced claim`.

Improve the quality of your report with GRI`s new Disclosure Review Service. The Service can be performed on draft or published reports. Responding to interest from clients, we are proud to launch a new GRI service that fills a much-needed gap in the market. GRI’s new Disclosure Review Service is designed to help organizations improve the content of their report by reviewing specific disclosures and determine whether the organization has responded to the information requests from the requirements outlined in the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards).

Providing exposure for and access to sustainability reporting. The GRI Sustainability Disclosure Database is an extensive repository of sustainability reports that helps you search for and locate the information you need. Once published, any organization can register its sustainability report in the GRI Sustainability Disclosure Database free of charge. By including your report in the database you contribute to the comprehensive pool of data used by a variety of stakeholders.