Sean Gilbert Technical Director

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THE GRI FRAMEWORKTaipei,
August 18, 2003

• Sean Gilbert Technical Director
• www.globalreporting.org

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GRI FAMILY OF DOCUMENTS

• Framework Documents
• GRI Guidelines
• Technical Protocols (e.g. Child labour, energy,
  water)
• Sector Supplements (e.g. financial services,
  tour operators, telecom, automotive)

• Support Documents
• Resource Documents (e.g. HIV/AIDS)

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MANY OPTIONS FOR USING THE GUIDELINES

• Informal
• Incremental
• In accordance (introduced in August 2002)

The main expectation is to be transparent about
HOW you use the Guidelines
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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING PRINCIPLES

• Transparency
• Inclusiveness
• Sustainability context
• Completeness
• Relevance

• Neutrality
• Comparability
• Accuracy
• Clarity
• Timeliness
• Auditability

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CONTENTS OF A GRI REPORT

• Vision and Strategy
• Profile
• Governance and Management Systems
• Content Index
• Performance indicators (economic, environmental,
  social)

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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Economic
• Customers
• Suppliers
• Employees
• Providers of capital
• Public Sector

• Social
• Labour practices
• Human rights
• Society
• Product Responsibility

• Environmental
• Resource use
• Pollutants
• Suppliers
• Products and services
• Compliance

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EXAMPLES OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Examples
• Average hours of training per year per employee
• Total amount of waste by type and destination
• Description of formal joint health safety
  committees comprising management and worker
  representatives

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SECTORAL SUPPLEMENTS

• Financial services Social (pilot)
• Tour Operators (pilot)
• Telecommunications (pilot)
• Automotive (in progress)
• Mining (in progress)
• Potential Financial Services Environmental,
  Retail, Public Sector, Forest Products

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FUNCTION OF SUPPLEMENTS
Organisation B
Organisation A
Custom material

• Supplements
• Sector/issue specific

• GRI Guidelines
• Reporting principles
• Core performance indicators

Allows comparison at a generic and sectoral levels
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SUPPLEMENT CONTENT

• Commentary on Existing GRI Indicators
• Include VOC emissions.
• Key customer health and safety issues in the
  auto industry relate to active and passive
  safety.

• New indicators
• Product emissions
• Infrastructure investment
• Digital divide
• Ergonomic injuries

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EXAMPLES OF CATEGORIES

• Telecom
• Internal Operations
• Providing Access
• Technology Applications

• Automotive
• Economic
• Environmental Product
• Social

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PROTOCOLS RESOURCE DOCUMENTS

• Protocols
• Energy (pilot)
• Water (pilot)
• Child Labour (feedback)
• Potential Health Safety, Biodiversity,
  Materials
• Resource Documents
• HIV-AIDs (feedback stage)

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DOCUMENT LIFECYCLE
Pilot Version
Structured Feedback
Working Group
Final Version
Periodic review
Working Group
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EXAMPLE OF THE GRI CONSULTATIVE PROCESS AT WORK
2000 Guidelines

• 31 companies
• 14 countries

Structured Feedback
Measurement Working Group

• 130 experts
• 25 countries

Revisions Working Group

• 12 individuals
• 8 countries

• 82 submissions
• 300 pages

Public Comments
And dozens of informal feedback sessions
2002 Guidelines
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HAVING A VOICE
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GOVERNING THE GRI AND WRITING THE GUIDELINES
Organizational Stakeholders
Board of Directors
Secretariat
Stakeholder Council
TAC
Multi-stakeholder Working Group
Multi-stakeholder Working Group
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2005 REVISIONS PROCESS
Structured Feedback Questionnaire
Drafting Process
Mid-2004
7/03-9/03
Public Comments
2005
Regional Roundtables
11/03-3/04
2005 Guidelines
Plan and Scope for Revisions
April 2004
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GRI IN 2003-2004

• Feedback on the 2002 Guidelines
• Boundaries Working Group
• Continue supplements protocols
• Mining, forestry (?), technology (?), retail (?)
• Health Safety, Biodiversity, Energy, Water
• Invite organisational stakeholders
• Regional outreach capacity building
• Resource documents SMEs, Intangibles, Case
  Studies on Getting Started in Reporting

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AN INVITATION TO TAIWANESE ORGANISATIONS

• Engage in GRI framework development
• Use the GRI Framework
• Participate in consultative processes and working
  groups
• Become part of the governance structure
• Join as an organisational stakeholder
• Seek positions in the Stakeholder Council and
  Board
• Help GRI learn about
• Activities in Taiwan
• Perspectives on reporting

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THANK YOU!

• www.globalreporting.org
• gilbert_at_globalreporting.org
• GRI HeadquartersKeizersgracht 2091016 DT
  Amsterdam31-205310000