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Beyond transparency – it’s time for accountability
20.02.2022
DAL SITO GRI.
RI's Interim CEO reflects on the year's achievements and challenges
As 2021 draws to a close, Eric Hespenheide, Interim CEO who will depart the organization at the end of this year, explores how the global landscape for sustainability reporting has evolved in 2021. He also looks ahead to what the new year may bring, in terms of GRI's remit to deliver transparency on the impacts organizations have on the economy, environment and people.
The GRI Standards have significantly developed this year. The revised Universal Standards published alongside the first GRI Sector Standard, for oil and gas - while projects are progressing on further Sector Standards for coal, mining, agriculture, aquaculture and fishing, as well as an updated Biodiversity Standard. What do these changes mean for the world's most wide widely used sustainability reporting standards?
"The standard setting process for GRI never stops: directed by the Global Sustainability Standards Board, we continually review the Standards, responding to growing transparency expectations for sustainability impacts. The revised Universal Standards will increase the scope and relevancy of all GRI reporting - from how organizations determine their material topics to delivering the first and only standards to reflect intergovernmental instruments for due diligence and human rights reporting.
Our Sector Program is ambitious and wide-ranging and I am delighted we are off to a great start, following the launch of the Oil & Gas Sector Standard, GRI 11. The work to deliver further Sector Standards, starting with those that have the highest impact, will gather pace next year. The update to our Biodiversity Standard, which has already received strong backing for other disclosure initiatives, is timely, given growing concerns about the threats facing species and habitats around the world."
From the European Commission's commitment to delivering new EU Sustainability Reporting Standards, for which GRI was appointed co-constructor, to the IFRS Foundation's launch of a sustainability standards board, there are a lot of changes for organizations to be aware of. What can be expected in the year to come?