Global Reporting Initiative

What is the Global Reporting Initiative?

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), created in 1997, is an international network of members focussed on the development and promulgation of appropriate “principles and indicators that organisations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental and social performance.” The GRI encompasses some 30,000 members from business and non-governmental organisations. More than 70 percent of reporting companies and organisations worldwide use the GRI’s framework to report on their sustainability efforts, leveraging the GRI Reporting Framework’s guidelines to define reports (including crucial issues such as materiality and context), ensure report quality and set report boundaries.

Deloitte's involvement

DTTL and its member firms have been involved with the GRI since its inception and is an Organisational Stakeholder in this worldwide effort. Several Deloitte member firms have jointly offered sustainability training in conjunction with GRI trainers and Deloitte member firm teams have performed a number of engagements globally assisting organisations with GRI-based reporting.

On 26-28 May 2010, Deloitte member firm partners from Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States attended the biennial conference of the GRI in Amsterdam. The GRI conference attracted around 1,000 participants from all over the world, including financial executives, regulators, professional services providers, NGOs and other stakeholders.