Starting Points publications are intended for a general audience and organizations considering reporting for the first time. They are part of GRI's educational series which also includes Pathways and Explorations.
There are two Starting Points publications available:
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GRI Sustainability Reporting:
A common language for a common future
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This publication is aimed at those who want to know more about how the GRI Guidelines can offer a common language to understand and talk about the current sustainability challenges. It also explains how the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) reporting process can help organizations to concretely address current requests for transparency and accountability. If an organization wants to gain respect and enhance credibility, it is essential that it can show that it understands the connections between its activities and their impacts, and take them into account in everyday decisions.
This understanding also helps organizations to identify what contribution they can make towards solutions which will shape the future in a sustainable way, and also the limitations and opportunities which this call for transparency and cohesion brings to their business.
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GRI Sustainability Reporting:
How Valuable is the Journey
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This publication is aimed at individuals and companies who are implementing the GRI sustainability reporting process for the first time, or those who want to know more about what other organizations have learned from the GRI reporting process.
During February and March of 2008, GRI collected testimonies from organizations of diverse sizes and sectors around the world that have experience with the GRI reporting process. In these testimonies, GRI reporting practitioners—from senior executives to project coordinators—reveal the value, and the challenges, they encountered during the reporting process.
There are many different reasons why organizations decide to implement a GRI reporting process, but the idea of finding value in the reporting process was rarely there from the outset. In this publication the reader will find out more about the following: What exactly is the sustainability reporting process? Is it difficult? Do you need and expert? Is it only for large organizations? Is it expensive? The value only became apparent during the implementation and execution of the reporting process.
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