5.9 Support mandatory disclosures and reporting

Business Strategy And Product Management

Create policies and documents showing evidence of commitment towards impact progress, how this is achieved, and any applicable regulations you are meeting.

Criteria

Policies and practices: Machine-testable
Create and publish policies and practices to disclose the social and environmental impacts of its products, programs, and services in line with existing reporting standards such as GRI, SASB, etc.
Impact reports: Machine-testable
Produce a publicly available impact report outlining progress compared to previous reports on social and environmental goals at least once per year.
Standards and policies: Machine-testable
Publicly and transparently demonstrate commitment over time to following and adopting existing and/or emerging environmental standards and legislative policy that promotes mandatory emissions disclosures and reporting.
Impact reduction: Human-testable
Clearly identify how environmental impact is being reduced, with careful avoidance of double accounting, greenwashing, data exclusion, or other misleading or manipulative techniques.

Benefits

Conversion
Demonstrating transparency through regular reporting and showing measurable improvement over time can increase an organization’s appeal to potential employees, partners, potential customers, investors, and suppliers who perceive shared values and an aligned mission.
Economic
Being ahead of the curve affords businesses greater resilience in the face of more rigorous standards.
Environment
Adopting reporting standards ahead of schedule provides more immediate environmental benefits, and allows you to mitigate environmental issues before they build into more complex or long-lasting ones.

GRI

Materials: Medium
Energy: Medium
Water: Medium
Emissions: Medium

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5.9 Support mandatory disclosures and reporting

Criteria

Benefits

GRI

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