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The organization that drew up worldwide sustainability reporting guidelines has used them to report on its own operations for the first time.
The Global Reporting Initiative says the process of producing its ‘GRI-GRI report’ revealed that ‘we had been neglecting to ensure that the development of our own organization was being [carried out] in a systematically sustainable fashion’.
The Amsterdam-based body, which has been operating for only two years, said ‘the time had come to use the guidelines ourselves’, not least to see at first hand how they could be improved. The third generation of GRI Guidelines will be released next year.
Meanwhile, at last month’s Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum, 16 mining and metals companies agreed to report on their sustainable development performance within two years using the GRI framework. The companies, members of the International Council on Mining and Metals, say this will help them to meet a commitment to measure performance against the council’s sustainability principles.
The 16 are: Alcoa, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan, Lonmin, Mitsubishi Materials, Newmont, Nippon Mining & Metals, Noranda, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Umicore, WMC Resources, and Zinifex.
A pilot version of a mining and metals sector supplement to the GRI guidelines will be out shortly.
More than 625 organizations have now published at least one non-financial report based on the GRI reporting guidelines.
The Global Reporting Initiative says the process of producing its ‘GRI-GRI report’ revealed that ‘we had been neglecting to ensure that the development of our own organization was being [carried out] in a systematically sustainable fashion’.
The Amsterdam-based body, which has been operating for only two years, said ‘the time had come to use the guidelines ourselves’, not least to see at first hand how they could be improved. The third generation of GRI Guidelines will be released next year.
Meanwhile, at last month’s Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum, 16 mining and metals companies agreed to report on their sustainable development performance within two years using the GRI framework. The companies, members of the International Council on Mining and Metals, say this will help them to meet a commitment to measure performance against the council’s sustainability principles.
The 16 are: Alcoa, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan, Lonmin, Mitsubishi Materials, Newmont, Nippon Mining & Metals, Noranda, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Umicore, WMC Resources, and Zinifex.
A pilot version of a mining and metals sector supplement to the GRI guidelines will be out shortly.
More than 625 organizations have now published at least one non-financial report based on the GRI reporting guidelines.
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