The GRI provides tools to assist companies in their human rights reporting, including helping companies begin the process of identifying human rights.

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The only detectable sense of security was its proximity to the 20 other tents, occupied by GRI elephant keepers and two other volunteers.

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The difference, said Zik, is that GRI is a sustainability-reporting framework, whereas Energy Points helps executives make effective decisions by providing comparative analysis.

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Also, its product portal allows customers to report to GRI and to the Carbon Disclosure Project, so the approaches are complementary, said Zik.

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With the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) officially launching in North America last year, CSR and sustainability reports are set to multiply in coming years.

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This was most effectively enunciated at the recent launch of Focal Point USA by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), where CSR and sustainability execs were asked to actually list some of these obstacles.

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This data, which is pivotal to decisions around financial investments as risk and return are analyzed, can now be disclosed in a more coherent and efficient matter now that standards are being established as with the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and the US launch of the SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board).

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These include using the IFCs Performance Standard 6 to guide the establishment of corporate biodiversity management systems, setting up IUCN Independent Review Panels to advise and monitor the implementation of these systems, certifying biodiversity management areas under the GDI, using the Biodiversity Offset Standard as needed, and adopting the GRI public reporting guidelines for biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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