About the training

Capturing key topics and developments, the 16-hour training provides a holistic overview of sustainability reporting, from GRI Standards requirements and developments to practical information and conclusions.

The training provides a general overview on the reporting process and areas:

• starting with basic definitions (what is sustainability),
• the reporting process (what is reporting, how to measure sustainability, GRI principles and indicators), also
• concrete reporting dilemmas (printed or online, which target group, how to communicate it effectively, how to prioritize issues etc.)

Sustainability reporting is a continually evolving practice that interacts with local and global developments. Thousands of organizations worldwide produce sustainability reports, and more and more develop their reporting process to gain benefits. Assurance and integrated reports are among key challenges on a global level, stakeholder engagement, materiality and successful publishing and dissemination on national levels.

Reporting is an internal learning process contributing the sustainable and organizational development, and a communication tool to build and strengthen reputation and stakeholder relationships. The relationship between data, an organization’s sustainability, performance and its ability to communicate material information to stakeholders is among key challenges - and this training will give useful insights and day to day recommendations to tackle them.