Global Reporting Initiative
Summary
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international, multistakeholder initiative whose objective is to develop and distribute guidelines for voluntary reporting on sustainable development. The guidelines are designed for organizations of any size–irrespective of status or business sector–that wish to report on their economic, environmental and social performance from a sustainable development perspective. The GRI's approach has three objectives: comparability of data, transparency of information and accountability to stakeholders.
To complement the guidelines, the GRI produces sector supplements that provide performance indicators specific to certain sectors. An Electric Utilities Sector Supplement was published in 2009.
Since 2001, Hydro-Québec has used the GRI guidelines to benchmark its performance in the area of sustainability. The third version of the guidelines is known as G3.
The GRI checked that Hydro-Québec's Sustainability Report 2009 was produced using G3 Application Level B.
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More information on the GRI and its guidelines.
GRI (G3) content index
- Strategy and analysis
- Organizational profile
- Report parameters
- Governance, commitments and engagement
- Management approach and performance indicators
- 5.1 Economic
- 5.2 Environmental
- 5.3 Social
- Electric Utilities Sector Supplement
- For each type of disclosure above, there is a table containing explanations, references or hyperlinks for the standard disclosures that apply to Hydro-Québec.
- Core GRI performance indicator numbers are mandatory; they are shown in boldface in the tables.
- Additional (optional) performance indicator numbers are shown in italics in the tables.
- Symbols (
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