"An understanding of sustainability is at the heart of a future-oriented business strategy: the days in which businesses could concentrate only on a narrowly-defined bottom line are over."
Dr. Gill Coleman, Co-Director, Ashridge MSc in SR - Ashridge Business School
CSR Consulting Turkey contributes to GRI 3.1 version
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Secretariat together with working groups has recently been working on incremental revisions of the G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. These revisions will make GRI's Reporting Framework and the current G3 Guidelines more relevant, transparent, and specific, without adding extra complexity to the reporting process.
Four different international multi-stakeholder Working Groups have developed the revision proposals. The four issues that are revised are: Gender, Community Investment, Human Rights and Content & Materiality.
As an Organizational Stakeholder (OS) of GRI, CSR Consulting Turkey provided input for the proposed revisions during the OS event held in The Hague on 8 July. Our input was based on our experience with Turkish businesses and also the needs of companies that are new to sustainability reporting.
We believe having a separate protocol on Content & Materiality will help reporters to define report content and select material issues and indicators for their reports.
We encourage you to visit GRI's online survey and give your input on the proposed revisions to the G3 Guidelines for Gender, Community and Human Rights until 23 August and to Content & Materiality Protocol and until 22 September.
Download the reference document for this survey here;
http://www.globalreporting.org/CurrentPriorities/G3_updates_public_comment.htm
All the feedback generated in the G3.1 public comment period will be incorporated into the discussions and the resulting final revision recommendations will be made by the Working Groups.