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# GRI
- URL: https://lemu-web.prie.to/docs/alphabet/gri/
- Published: 2025-08-31T01:25:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T16:12:38.000Z
- Description: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provides the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards, helping organisations disclose their impacts on the economy, environment, and people.
- Author: Lemu
- Tags: Alphabet, #docs-col, #group-g

## Global Reporting Initiative

**Also Known As / Other Names:** GRI Standards

### Description

GRI is an international, independent organisation that pioneered sustainability reporting. Its standards are the most commonly adopted global framework for organisations to measure and communicate their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts. The GRI Standards are designed to increase transparency and comparability across industries and jurisdictions.

| **Type**         | Voluntary sustainability reporting standards                     |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Jurisdiction** | Global                                                           |
| **Sector**       | Cross-sector: business, government, NGOs, financial institutions |

### Established / Active Since

1997

### Maintained By / Organised By

Global Reporting Initiative (independent international organisation, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands)

### Official Resources

- [https://www.globalreporting.org](https://www.globalreporting.org/?ref=lemu-web.prie.to)
- [https://www.globalreporting.org/standards](https://www.globalreporting.org/standards?ref=lemu-web.prie.to)

### Relationship to Lemu

GRI provides the backbone for sustainability reporting in many companies. By aligning biodiversity and nature indicators with GRI Standards, Lemu’s [Atlas](https://lemu-web.prie.to/atlas/) can help organisations integrate nature-related data into their disclosures, improving transparency and meeting global expectations.

### Examples in Practice

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A ****multinational** ****mining** ****company** uses GRI Standards to report on biodiversity impacts and community relations.

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A ****financial** ****institution** discloses environmental and social risks in its portfolio using GRI Standards.

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A ****government-owned utility** adopts GRI reporting to track and publish its environmental performance across operations.

### Cross-Mapping with Other Frameworks

- [**TNFD**](https://lemu-web.prie.to/docs/alphabet/tnfd/): Many organisations are beginning to integrate TNFD’s nature-related risk framework alongside GRI Standards to expand disclosure beyond climate.
- [**SBTN**](https://lemu-web.prie.to/docs/alphabet/sbtn/): Companies use GRI as a reporting layer while setting measurable science-based targets through SBTN.