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Gold standard sustainability reporting : a step by step guide to producing a sustainability report / Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gbangbola, Kye, 1966- author.
- Lawler, Nicole, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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 organization 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-301168-3
- 1-000-02996-4
- 1-003-01168-3
- 1-000-02992-1
- 9781003011682
- OCLC:
- 1128065186
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