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ACCA supports latest GRI initiative

ACCA is proud to be partnering with the Global Reporting Initiative for this year's Readers Choice Awards. ACCA has had a long association with GRI and was represented on the GRI's first board of directors.

For more than 20 years, ACCA has been campaigning to encourage organisations to report on the environmental impact of their activities. It supports the GRI mission to develop and promote standardised guidelines for reports, which will enable readers of those reports to more easily make comparisons between organisations and regions.

Roger Adams, ACCA's Director of Policy and its representative on the first GRI board, is a member of the Integrity Committee overseeing the development of this year's GRI Readers' Choice Awards. He said: “The survey of the readers of sustainability reports will give a clear indication of how effectively organisations are communicating these key issues. It is not a question of what reporting organizations think should be included - and avoided -in such reports, but of what the end users, investors, clients, environmentalist and other stakeholders want to see. ACCA has long campaigned for greater transparency in sustainability reporting and is wholeheartedly behind this initiative.

"Asking preparers why they published the data will also help to build a clear picture of both sides of reporting and will enable next year's GRI conference to address a number of key issues," he said.

ACCA will also be working to communicate details of the RCA survey through our network of more than 80 national offices and active centres.

For further information on The Readers' Choice Awards visit: The Readers' Choice Awards website 

For further information on the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency visit: Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency website 

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