Integrity Matters Checklist

Source: DTE

Subject: Environment

Context: The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched the UN-endorsed “Integrity Matters Checklist”, a new tool designed to help companies align their climate disclosures with UN standards for credible net-zero commitment.

About Integrity Matters Checklist:

• What it is? An UN-endorsed climate disclosure framework that helps companies and investors transparently report on net-zero targets, transition plans, and greenhouse gas reduction efforts.

• An UN-endorsed climate disclosure framework that helps companies and investors transparently report on net-zero targets, transition plans, and greenhouse gas reduction efforts.

• Developed by: GRI in partnership with the United Nations, aligning with recommendations of the UN High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Net Zero Commitments.

• Aim: To operationalise the Integrity Matters report of the HLEG by ensuring corporate climate action is credible, science-based, and transparent, supporting both the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda goals.

• Key Features:

• Alignment with UN guidance on verifiable net-zero targets and just transition principles.

• Integrated with GRI 102: Climate Change 2025 Standard, enabling consistent and comparable sustainability reporting.

• Encourages companies to phase out fossil fuel investments and adopt science-based transition pathways.

• Provides a checklist-based reporting tool to track progress from pledges to delivery, enhancing investor and policymaker trust.

• Endorsed by UN officials as a bridge between corporate ambition and climate accountability.

About Global Reporting Initiative (GRI):

• What it is? An international independent standards organisation that provides the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework for businesses, governments, and NGOs.

• An international independent standards organisation that provides the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework for businesses, governments, and NGOs.

• Launched in: 1997, by Ceres and the Tellus Institute, with support from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

• Aim: To promote transparency and accountability by helping organisations measure and communicate their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts in a standardized and comparable way.