• The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) promotes the use of Sustainability Reporting and produces free Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to enable companies to report their economic, environmental, social and governance performance.
• August 2010: the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) was formed and aims to create a globally accepted framework for a process that results in communication by an organization about value creation over time
• May 2013: GRI published G4 guidelines with more focus on stakeholder engagement and materiality
• December 2013: the IIRC published the first version of it’s International Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework.
• December 2014: EU Directive to disclose relevant and material environmental and social information in their Annual Reports that must be transposed into national law by December 2016
• February 2015: GRI has published ‘ Making headway in Europe’ a new linkage document that shows how companies can use GRI’s G4 guidelines to comply with the European Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information.
• April 2015: CSR2report is founded to support companies in determining Corporate Social Responsibility reporting strategy / roadmap and assist during implementation of CSR software and reporting process.