TMU CSR Institute zoom session: The Global Reporting Initiative & Due Diligence--Making the Connection: In conversation with GRI's Tabitha Bailey

The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility at Toronto Metropolitan University*(TMU) is pleased to present an online interactive zoom session, The Global Reporting Initiative & Due Diligence--Making the Connection: In conversation with GRI's Tabitha Bailey, on Friday, June 9, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm, Toronto time, (details below).

To register (no cost, everyone welcome) click HERE (external link)  then press the "Reserve a spot" button.

To access the zoom on Friday, June 9 at 12 noon (Toronto time), click HERE (external link)  to patch in for the live session. This session is exclusively a zoom event: there is no in-person component.

Information will be provided during the session re: how to submit questions.

About the Global Reporting Initiative

Founded in 1997, GRI is an independent non-state global entity that uses a multi-stakeholder process to develop a comprehensive reporting framework addressing the full range of environmental and social issues. By itself, the GRI reporting framework is an example of a voluntary non-state instrument. But governments and other actors, can (and do) draw on them and integrate them into their own rule instruments and processes.

In 2017, 63 percent of the largest 100 companies (N100), and 75 percent of the Global Fortune 250 (G250) reported applying the GRI reporting framework .The GRI Standards are the only comprehensive global reporting standards with an exclusive focus on impact reporting for a multi-stakeholder audience, and thus GRI standards are seen by many as being an essential factor in the shaping of corporate reporting structures.

GRI aligns with UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct.  GRI has entered into an MOU with the IFRS Foundation, and is also working together with EFRAG- with the aim being to ensure there is alignment on key concepts, terminology and definitions.

In late March, 2023, GRI published Bridging corporate reporting and due diligence (external link) , which provides an up-to-date examination of the fast-evolving connections between responsible business conduct/environmental, social, governance and due diligence.

The purpose of this session is to discuss the evolving role of GRI and connections to due diligence.

About Tabitha Bailey

Tabitha is a Senior Policy Coordinator in the Policy team of GRI’s Secretariat, based in Amsterdam. The GRI policy team work sclosely with governments, capital markets, multi laterals and regional government bodies and others, with the aim to embed the GRI Standards in policy. She specializes in business and human rights, and due diligence that covers adverse impacts on the economy, human rights, and the environment. Tabitha has been at GRI since 2019, and her academic background is in international law. Tabitha and a GRI colleague are participating in the drafting of the Responsible Business Conduct Due Diligence and Reporting standard (external link)  for Canadian companies active abroad, which is currently in development.

Moderator

Moderating the session will be Dr. Kernaghan Webb, Director of the Toronto Metropolitan University CSR Institute and a Law and Business professor in TMU's Ted Rogers School of Management.

The talk is co-sponsored by the TMU Corporate Social Responsibility Student Association, and the TMU Law and Business Student Association.  

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Latest News:

TMU Professor Kernaghan Webb appointed Chair of due diligence standards group (November 15, 2022)

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