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[7] [8] Commercial frameworks have been developed for sustainability reporting and are issuing standards or similar initiatives to guide companies in this exercise. There is a wide range of terminology used to qualify this same concept of sustainability reporting: ESG reporting, non-financial reporting, extra-financial reporting, social ...
Developed by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the GRI Standards are the first global standards for sustainability reporting and are a free public good. [9] The GRI Standards have a modular structure, making them easier to update and adapt. Three series of Standards support the reporting process.
The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) was formed in 2007 in London as part of the Carbon Disclosure Project that began in 2002. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) was formed in London in August 2010 with the participation of several stakeholders including the Global Reporting Initiative, International Accounting Standards Board, U.S. Financial Accounting Standards ...
Under ESG reporting, organizations are required to present data from financial and non-financial sources that shows they are meeting the standards of agencies such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Data must also be made available to ...
Sustainability standards can be categorized as either voluntary consensus standards or private standards. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an example of an standards organization who develop international standards following a voluntary consensus process for sustainability under Technical Committee 207, Environmental management and Technical Committee 268, Sustainable ...
ITC created a Standard Map [29] as an informational tool about voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), codes of conduct, audit protocols, reporting frameworks and company programs on sustainability. Within the standard profile, ITC provide the typology which explains if it is an international standard or a private standard e.g. the entity in ...
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2011 by Jean Rogers [1] to develop sustainability accounting standards. Investors, lenders, insurance underwriters, and other providers of financial capital are increasingly attuned to the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on the financial performance of companies, driving ...
Sustainability accounting (also known as social accounting, social and environmental accounting, corporate social reporting, corporate social responsibility reporting, or non-financial reporting) originated in the 1970s [1] and is considered a subcategory of financial accounting that focuses on the disclosure of non-financial information about a firm's performance to external stakeholders ...