Report and communicate your ESG progress
It is best practice to regularly keep your stakeholders aware of your sustainability plans, progress, and challenges. This includes internal stakeholders within your business, and external stakeholders you have identified.
Use these resources to get going.
Reporting standards
Reporting standards set out specifics of reporting, like topics and metrics to disclose
Database and Website
You can use CDP’s vast data resources to look up your suppliers’ decarbonisation performance and scores. Disclosing your performance through the CDP assessment is a credible way to signal to your stakeholders how seriously you take the management of your environmental impacts.
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Climate Change, Biodiversity, Water, Forests, and Environment
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Standard
If you’re in scope for EU’s CSRD, use the European Sustainability Reporting Standards to comply.
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General ESG
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Standard
Use the GRI standards to report your impact on society.
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General ESG
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Standard
IFRS standards are voluntary, but several countries are considering adopting them as their national sustainability disclosure standards.
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Climate Change
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Reporting frameworks
Reporting frameworks set out high level reporting principles
Framework
A more holistic methodology for measuring net zero efforts, including financing carbon technologies and influencing policy.
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Climate Change
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Tool
A great tool to support company’s development and/or check availability of core elements of a human rights due diligence.
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Human Rights
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Framework
The TCFD framework is the backbone of key sustainability reporting standards, and some countries are mandating reporting in line with the TCFD recommendations.
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Climate Change
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Framework
Go-to-document for understanding nature and business, and how to assess and report your business nature impacts.
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Biodiversity
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Report and Framework
Use the TPT Framework to align to best practice in developing a corporate net zero transition plan.
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Climate Change
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Framework
Stay up to date with the The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures Working Group. Keep up with expectations and direction of travel related to managing and reporting on social-related risks, opportunities, and impacts.
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Social Impact, Human Rights, Labour Conditions, and Living Wage
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Community
Join this community of corporate social impact professionals to jointly progress the practice of social impact measurement, get support, networking and tools.
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Social Impact
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Tool and Learning platform
Use the GHG Protocol to measure your organisation’s carbon footprint, and access tools and courses.
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Climate Change and Scope 3
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Reporting guidance and tools
Resources to support your ESG reporting
Website and Database
Use SBTi’s resources to set a science-based carbon reduction target.
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Climate Change
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Database
Search over 200,000 corporate responsibility reports since the 1990s.
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General ESG
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Some content free
Database
Eora data can be used to estimate your Scope 3 carbon footprint.
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Environment, Climate Change, and Scope 3
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Website
Use the SASB Standards and materiality finder to identify which ESG disclosures are most important for your company to disclose.
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General ESG
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Service
Streamline your CSRD compliance with this expert GRI-ESRS alignment review
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General ESG
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Comms & engagement resources
Resources to help with comms, engagement and marketing
Website
Lots of great resources and insights into sustainability comms.
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Climate Change
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Tool
Identify and correct false or misleading claims related to climate science and policy.
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Climate Change
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Website
Stay up to date with Futerra’s latest research and insights.
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Environment and Climate Change
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Website
Air Quality Stripes can be used for educational purposes, presentations, and to promote discussions on environmental health and climate change.
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Environment and Climate Change
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Report
Use this quick reference guide to understand how to better communicate and market sustainability without greenwashing.
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Climate Change
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Learning platform
Get the baseline understanding of climate change and what to do about it through free public workshops or through a workshop organised via your organisation. You can even become a facilitator and spread the knowledge.
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Climate Change
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Some content free
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