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GRI Focal Point Australia

 

Purpose

GRI Focal Point Australia works to bring Australian organisations more actively into the broader international dialogue on ESG disclosure and sustainability and seeks to improve the uptake, usefulness and quality of reporting.

Strategic objectives

• Maintain and increase stakeholder engagement and outreach (on national/regional level):
  
  a. to convene regional stakeholders to engage with GRI and participate  and share their expertise in the global feedback processes; and
  
  b. to continuously improve the global GRI Reporting Framework and the use of the  G3 Reporting Framework

• Create local ownership of the global Sustainability Reporting Framework
• Increase the value of GRI based sustainability reporting for reports writers and users
• Stimulate harmonization with existing (national) reporting standards and sustainability initiatives
• Coordinate and cultivate relationships with national / regional reporting communities and strategic corporate, public and NGO partners
• Drive global change to a sustainable transparent economy through the GRI network

GRI Focal Point Australia

On 17 October 2008, GRI and St James Ethics Centre signed an agreement to establish a base for GRI in Australia. The Focal Point is funded by the Federal Government’s Treasury, CPA Australia and the Global Reporting Initiative.

GRI chose to partner with St James Ethics Centre due to its commitment to responsible business practice and its strong links with key players in regional corporate responsibility and sustainability. St James Ethics Centre is the Australian trustee of the United Nations Global Compact, and the Corporate Responsibility Index (an initiative of the UK’s Business in the Community) and has a longstanding partnership with Australia’s National Business Leader’s Forum on Sustainable Development.

                                 

Pictured: Dr. Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre (left) signs MOU with GRI CEO Ernst Ligteringe         

"In a world first, the (Federal Treasury) funding has enabled the Centre to become the focal point in Australia for the Global Reporting Initiative – the international gold standard for reporting on sustainability and the UN Global Compact – the global initiative in corporate citizenship.” The Hon Minister Nick Sherry, 5 February 2009

The collaborative initiative serves to strengthen the collective goals of both organizations – increasing the uptake of responsible business practice and making reporting on economic, environmental and social performance by all organizations as routine and comparable as financial reporting.

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Case Studies

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As the Network of GRI users grows the Focal Point will gather Australian experiences to create country specific guidance. In addition, the Advisory Group will also provide expertise in areas such as environmental and human rights issues in Australia.