| The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework. Its principles and indicators provide a mechanism for measuring and reporting economic, environmental and social performance.
The GRI’s indicators promote transparency, accountability and accuracy, making it easier to compare performance in an increasingly globalised operating environment.
Currently, around 4 per cent of organisations globally use sustainability reporting. In Australia this figure is 35 per cent.www.globalreporting.org.
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The City of Melbourne has included GRI sustainability indicators as part of its performance measures since 2004–05.
The GRI appears in this annual report as a list of indicators, each with a page reference or a comment to demonstrate compliance or to show which indicators are not relevant to our organisation. The 10 United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles are also referenced in the table (see page 10 for more information).
GRI application level
This report was prepared to meet the requirements of application level B under the GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, maintaining the standard of reporting and disclosure of previous years.
Rather than seek external assurance for GRI, the City of Melbourne focuses its resources on strengthening internal reporting processes and maintaining the already thorough level of auditing our processes are currently subject to.
More information about the GRI is available at www.globalreporting.org.
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