Be Part of the Ultimate Safety & Compliance Community
Trending news, knowledge-building content, and more – all personalized to you!
Sustainability in business terms is managing a company’s triple bottom line of people, planet, and prosperity. Sustainability reports fall into the category of non-financial reporting. They are usually voluntary.
Sustainability reports are becoming common practice for many organizations ranging from businesses to governments to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) established a reporting framework that is now the most widely adopted model used for sustainability reporting worldwide. If participating, companies will publish a sustainability or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report annually.
When an organization looks to track and improve sustainability/ ESG they should think about goals that fall into each category for environmental, social, and governance. Here are some suggested topics under each category to consider:
Environmental
Social
Governance/Economic