Global Reporting Initiative

What is GRI?

TheGlobal Reporting Initiative (GRI) has pioneered the development of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework and is committed to its continuous improvement and application worldwide. This framework sets out the principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance.


    G3.1 Guidelines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cornerstone of the framework is the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The latest version of the Guidelines – known as theG3.1 Guidelines – was published in 2011, and is a free public good. G3.1 is an update and completion of the third generation of GRI's Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. These guidelines allow organisations to make meaningful, public, transparent disclosure on their sustainability performance. 

 The G3.1 Guidelines can be downloaded from the GRI website free of charge along with a wide range of additional resources.


Vision

A sustainable global economy where organizations manage their economic, environmental, social and governance performance and impacts responsibly and report transparently

Mission

To make sustainability reporting standard practice by providing guidance and support to organisations


  Download the full
  KPMG report here

Research shows that organisations are moving into the right direction; a KPMG survey released in 2008 found that disclosure on corporate economic, environmental and social performance has become the norm among larger companies globally. Over 80 per cent of Global Fortune 250 companies (G250) now disclose their sustainability performance in “sustainability” or “corporate responsibility” reports, of which more than 75% use GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Framework as their basis.

 

 

Regional GRI Focal Points

Since its establishment, the GRI network of stakeholders around the world has grown immensely. The GRI Secretariat is constantly looking at ways to more effectively meet the needs of stakeholders in different regions, to increase both the use of and the participation in the development of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework, and to generally strengthen and expand the GRI network.

To date, five regional GRI ‘Focal Points’ have been established through the collaboration between GRI and national host organizations or other national institutions to more effectively address the needs of different stakeholder communities. GRI ‘Focal Points’ consist of one or more individuals employed by host organizations to represent GRI locally and are currently established in Brazil, China, India, the United States of America and Australia. Click here for more information on the GRI 'Focal Points'.

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What is GRI?

Vision

Regional GRI Focal Points
 

GRI Focal Point Australia Founding Supporters

GRI Focal Point Australia thanks its Founding Supporters:

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the Australian Government's Treasury 

                

GRI Certified Training Program

The following organisations have been certified by GRI as Certified Trainers in Australia, offering an intensive two day training program on GRI.

Please view their website for details on training dates and prices.

- Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

- Net Balance, in partnership with Swinburne University's National Centre for Sustainability

- ZooID

- The Consortium of Envirostate & Banarra