GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024
On 25 January 2024, a major revision to the GRI Biodiversity was published. GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 updates, expands, and replaces GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016. The Standard, aligned with the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, helps organizations to better understand which decisions and business practices lead to biodiversity loss, where in their value chain impacts occur, and how they can be managed.
GRI at Biodiversity COP 16: Join our events and activities in Cali, Colombia
With the aim of driving global commitments to protect nature and ensure the sustainable use of resources, COP16 will bring together diverse stakeholders from around the world, including governments, civil society, businesses, financial institutions and academia. GRI actions will be focused on encouraging organizational transparency through GRI 101, the new Topic Standard for Biodiversity.
Register for upcoming GRI hosted events:
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- Leaving no-one behind: How just transition and nature-positive impacts intersect: (24 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 10:30 – 11:30 UTC-5): A multi-stakeholder panel discussion on achieving an inclusive and equitable transition to a nature-positive economy, led by Andrea Pradilla, Director of GRI Latin America.
- Opportunity or challenge? How can digitalization transform biodiversity reporting? (25 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 15:30 pm - 16:30 UTC-5): This session, led by GRI Interim CEO Cristina Gil White, will assess the current state of play and potential new frontiers for biodiversity reporting, looking at how digital transformation will impact reporting in the next five to ten years, and how we can ensure that changes are positive.
- How corporate transparency helps protect biodiversity (27 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 12:00 – 13:00 UTC-5): In this interactive session led by GRI technical experts Harold Pauwels (Director Standards) and Elodie Chene (Senior Manager Standards), we will hear from companies that piloted GRI 101, their experiences with data collection and how the information can inform their company’s strategy.
- (Session in Spanish): How corporate transparency helps protect biodiversity (27 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavillion, 13:00 - 14:00 pm UTC-5): This event, led by Andrea Pradilla and Lina Camargo of GRI Latin America, will look at the reporting experiences of regional companies that have piloted the GRI Biodiversity Standards.
In July 2024, GRI and the TNFD published a joint interoperability mapping to help reporters better understand the correspondence between the GRI Standards and the TNFD Disclosure Recommendations, metrics and sector guidance.
The mapping consists of:
- an accompanying guidance, which provides insights, clarifications and instructions on the TNFD-GRI interoperability mapping.
- table of correspondences between the TNFD Disclosure Recommendations and metrics and the disclosures of the GRI Standards.
