Sustainability Reporting

Sustainability reporting is the practice of measuring, disclosing, and being accountable to your internal and external stakeholders for organisational performance towards the goal of sustainable development.

Sustainability Reporting is a broad term synonymous with other terms including Triple Bottom Line (TBL) reporting and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting.  Sustainability reporting is used to describe the environmental, social and economic impacts of your organisational activities. 

ZOOiD can help your organisation build a reliable sustainability reporting framework to measure all sustainability performance indicators.  Our team of highly specialised professionals work closely with your organisation to lay down the foundations to a sustainable future. 

We are a registered Organisational Stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and support the mission of the GRI to develop globally accepted sustainability reporting guidelines through a global, multi-stakeholder process.

What are the benefits of sustainability reporting? 

By undertaking sustainability reporting, you provide a transparent approach toward your organisational activities that is of interest to a diverse range of stakeholders, including your customers, business, non-governmental organisations, investors, and others.   Undertaking regular, detailed Sustainability Reporting will provide you with a competitive advantage, emphasising the transparency of your organisation to key stakeholders, and giving you all the information you need to move forward as a truly sustainable organisation. 

Take the test

Explore the following Sustainability Performance Indicators checklist.  How is your organisation performing? 

Environment Performance Indicators

Do you know?

• Materials
  • The percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials?
• Energy Usage
  • Rate of energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements?
• Water
  • The percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused?
• Biodiversity
• Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity?
• Emissions, Effluents and Waste
• Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions?

Economic Performance Indicators

Do you know?

• Economic Performance
  • The financial implications and other risks and opportunities for your organization’s activities due to climate change?
• Market Presence
  • Your policy, practices, and proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation?
• Indirect Economic Impacts
  • Your development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind, or pro bono engagement?

Human Rights Indicators

• Non-discrimination
  • Total number of incidents of discrimination and actions taken?
• Child Labour
  • Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labour, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of child labour?
• Indigenous Rights
  • Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous people and actions taken?

Labour Practice Indicators

• Employment
  • Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations?
• Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)
  • Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities by region?
• Training and Education
  • Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees?
• Diversity
  • Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category?

Society Performance Indicators

• Community
  • Nature, scope, and effectiveness of any programs and practices that assess and manage the impacts of operations on communities?
• Public Policy
  • Public policy positions and participation in public policy development and lobbying?

Product Responsibility Performance Indicators

• Customer Health and Safety
  • Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement?
• Product and Service Labelling
  • Type of product and service information required by procedures?
• Marketing Communications
  • Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship?
• Customer Privacy
• Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data?

Source: Global Reporting Initiative