Gold Standard Sustainability Reporting: A Step by Step Guide to Producing Sustainability Reports

Description

This highly practical and concise book shows you how to undertake a reporting process and produce a sustainability report in line with the new standards and frameworks presented by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Fully updated to ensure compliance with the new standards, this second edition shows how to actually produce a sustainability report as well as the key processes in the planning: how to produce a business case; the development of actions plans; process and team leadership; and generating cross-functional buy-in. Templates are provided for certain steps in order to simplify the tasks involved at each point in the process. Anyone involved in delivering or developing a process to embed sustainability reporting for an organisation will find this book invaluable, for example, chief sustainability officers, chief financial officers and company secretaries. It will also be of interest to students in the field of sustainability. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Diagrams, templates and schedules Abstract About the authors Disclaimer Feedback Who this book is for About this book Foreword Preface Introduction to sustainability reporting 1 Sustainability context The journey Sustainable Development Goals Preliminaries Preparing the business case – board approval Setting out 2 Prepare Assembling the team Understanding the GRI Standards and choosing the ‘in accordance’ option Development Plan Kick-off meeting (agreement on the reporting process) and engaging internal stakeholders 3 Connect (wide range of stakeholders) Identify stakeholders Prioritise stakeholders Stakeholder engagement Build stakeholder relationships 4 Define Determine the material topics Produce materiality matrix and determine ‘thresholds’ Validate material topics 5 Monitor Monitor topics and set policies and procedures to measure as necessary Set SMART goals and targets 6 Report Develop narrative for most senior person’s statement Company accreditations The Declaration Draft sustainability/integrated report Content index Omissions GRI report-checking services Finalise report and send for publication Launch report Feedback 7 Software 8 Assurance 9 Additional insights for reporters and non-reporters Integrated reporting 10 Q&A for reporters and non-reporters 11 Sustainability report evaluation Appendix 1 The usual suspects – an idea of material topics and challenges for organisations in different sectors Glossary Bibliography Index