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🗞️ Driving the news: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced revised standards for climate change and energy disclosures, requiring companies to provide deeper insights into the societal impacts of their climate transition strategies
• Effective January 2027, the updates — GRI 102 (Climate Change) and GRI 103 (Energy) — mandate expanded reporting on effects on workers, Indigenous communities, and ecosystems, aligning closely with frameworks like the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and IFRS S2 standards
🔭 The context: GRI is the world’s most widely adopted voluntary reporting framework, used by over 14,000 companies
• These revisions come as demand grows for harmonized, transparent ESG disclosures
• Developed by the Global Sustainability Standards Board, the standards are refreshed every three to five years to reflect evolving best practices and regulatory expectations
• GRI’s new guidelines aim to address data fragmentation and reporting fatigue by integrating with other major disclosure frameworks
🌍 Why it matters for the planet: By mandating detailed disclosure on the societal dimensions of climate transition plans — such as labor impacts and biodiversity — GRI’s updated standards strengthen corporate accountability on just transition principles
• They also support more reliable emissions tracking and energy-use transparency, enabling companies and stakeholders to evaluate decarbonization progress with greater precision and comparability
⏭️ What's next: The revised standards will be piloted by the end of 2025 before full implementation in January 2027
• GRI has also launched a digital Sustainability Taxonomy to streamline online data collection, compatible with tools from the EU’s ESRS and ISSB
• This harmonization allows firms to compile “one data set” to meet multiple reporting requirements, potentially reducing compliance burdens while enhancing transparency
💬 One quote: “Climate change is a deeply human issue, as much as it is an environmental one, and these new GRI standards are unique in bringing these dimensions together,” — Robin Hodess, CEO of GRI
📈 One stat: Two-thirds of companies using GRI reporting methodologies rely on the climate and energy standards being updated in this revision
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