The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced on June 23, 2025, the launch of its new Sustainability Taxonomy, offering a machine-readable version of its GRI standards, aimed at facilitating faster data collection and submission of sustainability disclosures, and enhanced interoperability with other sustainability reporting standards.

GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are one of the most commonly accepted global standards for sustainability reporting by companies, developed to enable consistent reporting across companies and industries, providing clearer communication regarding sustainability matters to a broad range of stakeholders, including investors

• The new taxonomy covers all GRI standards, across Universal, Sector and Topic.
• The new Sustainability Taxonomy will help organizations to share their data in a structured digital format based on XBRL, allowing for machine-readable sustainability disclosures, and improved comparability of disclosures, and enabling digital reports to be submitted directly to GRI either directly or through an online form.

The GRI said that the taxonomy will also strengthen interoperability with other standards, noting that it has been designed to ensure a high level of alignment with the XBRL-based versions of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Standards, and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The ISSB and EFRAG launched XBRL Taxonomy versions of the ISSB and ESRS standards, respectively, in 2024. The GRI added that the taxonomy will also help GRI reporting to be more compatible across different regions and countries.

“GRI’s Sustainability Taxonomy is a significant step forward in making sustainability information faster to retrieve and analyze, for both reporting organizations and data users. It closes the gap between reported impacts and the people who need to interpret and act on them – making it easier to assess the completeness and alignment of disclosed information. It is a practical, inclusive tool that helps ensure the GRI Standards remain world-leading and fit for purpose in an ever-evolving digital reporting world.”
– Cristina Gil White, GRI Chief Engagement Officer

ARTICLE SOURCE: https://www.esgtoday.com/gri-launches-digital-taxonomy-to-enable-machine-readable-sustainability-disclosures/