Material Topics Before Metrics
Use materiality thinking to narrow sustainability attention to impacts that are significant for the business and its stakeholders.
A long metric list is not the same thing as a sustainability strategy. The GRI Standards are built to help organizations report on impacts that matter. The core idea is material topics: the environmental, social, or governance impacts significant enough that the organization should pay attention, manage them, and communicate how it is doing so. Materiality is a prioritization tool Every company touches many issues, but not every issue deserves the same level of attention. Materiality helps leaders separate high-consequence impacts from background noise. It asks where effects are most serious, most likely, most widespread, or most closely connected to…
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