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Intertek supports your organization Corporate Sustainability Services enable with Corporate Sustainability solutions you to: that transform values and ambitions • Improve resource effi ciency & productivity into tangible, profi table results. With our integral approach through • Aid corporate image and brand value assessment, sustainable strategy • Demonstrate regulatory compliance and implementation we assist you in aligning systems with your • Mitigate operational company’s vision of sustainability • Stay ahead of reporting trends and embed it into every part of your business.

Is your company struggling with the challenges and opportunities presented by the complex world of corporate citizenship? Global Reporting Initiative GRI is now the most widely used sustainability may choose to cover only some of the content in reporting framework. Whilst the GRI Guidelines working towards improving their reporting. With seek to enhance comparability between reports this in mind, organisations are also asked to clearly through encouraging the use of common indicate how they have used the GRI Guidelines indicators, it can also incorporate fl exibility so that and in particular, the core indicators. With time organisations can take steps to refl ect the context and practice, organisations are encouraged to in which they operate. The GRI Guidelines can also move gradually towards more comprehensive be used with a more informal approach consistent reporting built on the content of the GRI with organisation’s capacity. The organisation framework.

Potential benefi ts • The GRI Guidelines provide a holistic to encourage employees to understand framework that addresses broad performance and contribute to progressively better – social, environmental and economic – as performance. to how an organisation is reporting to • The Guidelines are fl exible and can be used in stakeholders. different sectors and geographical contexts. • They guide an organisation’s approach to • The Guidelines support and integrate other ‘proving’ its impact. tools such as and the • GRI is used widely internationally as a AA1000 Series generally accepted reporting framework and, Openly communicating this as such, provides a method for increased to stakeholders can build trust and support, comparability. enhancing your company’s reputation. Working • Organisations can use GRI reporting to help with an independent body reassures stakeholders measure and benchmark performance, both that the information is accurate and free of against their own targets and externally. bias. Beyond verifying report data, independent Management can use the GRI indicators assurance also ensures that the right kind of information is communicated.

Current Situation The Solution In recent years, corporate environmental and Our range of service includes: social responsibility has risen to the forefront of • Corporate Carbon Footprint Support company concerns. Increases in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) investment, more scrutiny of • Corporate Sustainability Reporting Assistance corporate governance and a greater demand for • Corporate Environmental, Social and now means that Corporate Social Economic Data Verifi cation Responsibility and Sustainable Development issues have gained a fi rm place on the agenda of • Sustainability Reporting Assurance (GRI Boards and senior management worldwide. New Assurance) legislation and voluntary standards are continually • Corporate Sustainability Program introduced to ensure companies are made Development Intertek accountable for their impact on the environment and society at large. Phoenix Yard 69 Kings Cross Road London WC1X 9LN Tel: +44 (0) 207 239 4958 For more information visit: www.intertek.com/sustainability, contact: [email protected] Fax: +44 (0) 207 713 8963 or call us +44 (0) 207 239 4958. To fi nd an offi ce or laboratory in a particular country, please visit www.intertek.com/contact. www.intertek.com