How to Prepare a Best-Practice Sustainability Report, GRI Certified Training

Understand the elements of a good sustainability report and how to prepare and co-ordinate the sustainability reporting process with ACCSR’s certified GRI training course.

The new G4 sustainability reporting guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) take communicating your organisational impacts and performance to the next level.

As stakeholders demand greater transparency and relevance from organisational reports, the revised GRI guidelines ramp up the focus on materiality – reporting what’s most relevant to your organisation and for stakeholders. This workshop provides tips on how to engage with employees, customers, regulators, investors and other stakeholders to understand their views and help shape your reporting.

What you will learn:

• The business case and value of sustainability reporting
• The challenges and benefits of sustainability reporting
• How to engage your stakeholders in reporting
• How to understand and apply the concept of ‘materiality’
• GRI categories, aspects and indicators
• The requirements for each GRI G4 reporting level
• Innovative formats for sustainability reporting

The skills you will develop:

• Plan your sustainability reporting process
• Identify key stakeholders
• Distinguish your organisation’s material issues
• Recognise the internal procedures and mechanisms you will need
• Incorporate the UN Global Compact Principles into sustainability reporting
• Understand how Integrated Reporting aligns with the G4 framework
• Evaluate the quality of sustainability reports using your newly acquired knowledge