The Global Reporting Initiative

Abstract

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provides a framework for organisations — most often corporations — to report on their sustainability performance. As a multi-stakeholder initiative to which a wide array of actors contributes, it shares a number of similarities with the World Commission on Dams. Moreover, as the latter, it is frequently lauded as one of the success stories of non-state governance beyond the state.1 As the only non-state policy process explicitly referenced in a formal document at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002, a partner institution of the United Nations’ Global Compact, and a collaborating centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the GRI has achieved a high international profile since its inception in 1997.

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