GRI EXAM ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND

GRI EXAM (ACTUAL / ) UPDATED QUESTIONS AND

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GRI Standards are required for all reports or other materials published that apply the GRI framework on or after..... - ---- Answers----July 1, 2018 To publish any kind of in accordance report (Core or Comprehensive option), what needs to be true with regards to 10 Reporting Principles? - ----Answers----ALL 10 Reporting Principles are required to be applied by reporting organizations to be in accordance with the GRI Standards.

Each or the Reporting Principles consists of ... and ... on how to apply the principle. - ----Answers----requirement and guidance

The guidance for each of the Reporting Principles includes ... to help an organization assess whether it has applied the principle. - ----Answers----tests

What does GRI suggest as the first 3 steps toward report development? - ----Answers----1. Identify and create a reporting team 2. Create awareness and secure commitments about reporting 3. Hold a kick-off meeting

When reporting General Disclosures: the General Disclosures

request .... about an organization and its sustainability reporting practices. - ----Answers----contextual information

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The 'organizational profile' in General Disclosures consists of 13 disclosures that provide an overview of an organization's...., ...., ...., and .... - ----Answers----Organizations size, geography, operations, and activities

The strategy section of General Disclosures consist of 2 disclosures, intended to give insight on.... - ----Answers---- strategic issues for addressing sustainability

General Disclosures' Ethics & integrity section consists of 2 disclosures that reveal... and ... - ----Answers----1. the organizations values, principles, standards, and norms; 2. the mechanisms for advice and concern about ethics

General Disclosures "Governance' consists of 22 disclosures that provide an overview of .... ? - ----Answers----the governance structure, composition, and the organization's highest governing body in the sustainability reporting

General Disclosures: 'Stakeholder engagement' consists of 5

disclosures to provide detail about .... - ----Answers----items such as a mist of stakeholders engaged, how they were identified/selected, type of engagement, topics raised

General Disclosures: "Reporting practice' consists of 12

disclosures that provide an overview of .... - ----Answers---- the process used to define the context of the report, the material topics, and boundaries, reporting period, external assurance 2 / 4

Materiality is the principle that determines which topics are sufficiently important to ... Are all topics/materiality of equal importance? - ----Answers----sufficiently important to report on; Materiality topics emphasis within a report is expected to reflect their relative priority

Material assessment assesses topics against 2 dimensions.What are they? - ----Answers----1. significance of the organization's economic/environmental/social impacts 2.substantive influence on assessments and decisions of stakeholders

Define 'impact.' - ----Answers----In the GRI Standards, unless otherwise stated, 'impact' refers to the effect an organization has on the economy, the environment, and/or society, which in turn can indicate its contribution (positive or negative) to sustainable development.

Note 1: In the GRI Standards, the term 'impact' can refer to

positive, negative, actual, potential, direct, indirect, short-term, long-term, intended, or unintended impacts.

Note 2: Impacts on the economy, environment, and/or society

can also be related to consequences for the organization itself.For example, an impact on the economy, environment, and/or society can lead to consequences for the organization's business model, reputation, or ability to achieve its objectives.

It is possible for organizational impacts to be positive and negative; ... and ...; ... and ...' ... and ...; and ... and .... - ---- 3 / 4

Answers----actual and potential; direct and indirect; short- term and long-term; intended and unintended

What does GRI require regarding a materiality matrix? - ---- Answers----GRI does not require a materiality matrix nor a specific matrix, but if a matrix is used, it should have 2 dimensions. 1.) reflect the organization's significant economic environmental and social impacts, and 2.) influence the assessments and decisions of stakeholders. note that a topic can be considered material finite registers on only a single dimension or axis.

An organization identifies material topics primarily by applying which 2 principles? - ----Answers----1. Stakeholder Inclusiveness Principle 2. Materiality principle

When possible, GRI requires a link between identified ... and topic-specific Standards. - ----Answers----Material topics

All material topics, including those not covered by GRI Standards, from the content of the... - ----Answers---- sustainability principles

What are examples of GRI sector-specific standards? - ---- Answers----airport operators, electric utilities, event organizers, financial services, food processing, media, mining/metal, NGO's, oil/gas, real estate/construction

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