How do professional accountants respond to the growing demand for assurance on non-financial information (NFI) Stakeholders use NFI as an input to their decision making, but they want to know if this information can be trusted. External assurance can strengthen >>> read more

Eric Hespenheide has been appointed as the Chairman of the GRI Board of Directors, effective 1 January 2018. A familiar figure in the sustainability reporting world, and a long-term contributor to GRI’s multi-stakeholder network, Eric brings a wealth of multi-faceted experience in >>> read more

>On July 5th, 2017 the European Commission presented guidelines on non-financial reporting designed to produce a strategic and forward looking approach to arranging reports, stakeholder relevancy, consistency and coherency. The proposed guidelines demonstrate how to disclose material information and produce >>> read more

Catherine Raw, chief financial officer of miner Barrick Gold and previously co-manager of BlackRock’s flagship mining funds, said sustainability reporting needs to be audited in the same way as financials to become credible. Raw spoke at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business >>> read more

Environment, social and governance have become critical issues in the way investors judge companies, but corporates face too many ESG measures suffering from too little standardisation. But we now have scores of methods and providers. For my research, I investigated >>> read more

The UK’s corporate governance watchdog should explore ways to increase transparency in corporate reporting of company contributions towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to recommendations from an independent advisory group. The group’s report, Growing a culture of Social Impact >>> read more

According to the GRI database of sustainability reports, the number of firms which publicly disclosed their use of the GRI framework was lower in 2016 than 2015 (see infographic below). Despite GRI adoption growing at a 39% CAGR from 2005 to 2010 >>> read more

Investors are stepping up their appeals for robust corporate sustainability reporting, with increased focus on climate impact and long-term performance in a carbon-constrained world. These reports have been standard for some time, though the metrics and definitions for success have transformed >>> read more

September marked the fifth anniversary of a public comment that I and 65 other members of the Sustainability Context Group submitted to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the run-up to G4. G4, of course, was the next generation of GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines at the time, which since then >>> read more

GRI is taking part in three events to strengthen the contribution of the private sector to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by helping make reporting on them more comparable, encouraging private sector engagement and supporting collaboration between business and academia >>> read more

Ever since the inaugural Real Estate Assessment in 2009, the idea behind GRESB has never wavered: to provide transparency on the sustainability performance of real estate funds and companies so that investors can factor portfolio risks and opportunities into their >>> read more

​It’s been a year since the launch of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards); what has happened since?​ Launched on 19 October 2016, the GRI Standards are the latest evolution of GRI’s reporting framework, which has been developed through >>> read more