Gaia Metrics for CSR
Gaia Metrics for CSR is the foundation of Gaia Metrics information services. It provides the information that fuels reporting and recognition of who and what are important to your company and its stakeholders. It also powers the comparative analysis performed by Gaia Metrics Benchmarking and financial risk assessment accomplished by Gaia Metrics for Finance.
Process not event
Corporate Sustainability Reporting is an ongoing process. Whether or not you publish a formal report, you’re engaged year round recognizing stakeholder points of view, finding common interests, weighing differences and performing due diligence.
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Taking the pulse of stakeholders
To succeed at your job, you need to meet and engage with stakeholders. But you can’t stop there. You also want to digest their web sites, blogs and other documents, and to show you are considering their points of view. And focus discussion on how their views of CSR may affect your bottom line and business model, not just what to put in an isolated report.
A quick start
Gaia Metrics for CSR is the jumpstart solution for companies looking to show CSR is an integral part of their business model.
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Interactive reporting
For many companies, the process of engaging with stakeholders helps shape the type of reporting. With Gaia Metrics, it becomes easier to shift from downloadable reports to highly interactive forms built around stakeholder dialogue.
Building a business case for social investing
With Gaia Metrics for CSR, you can prove the business value of social investing by showing the impact of your social investments on the bottom line.
Comprehensive
With Gaia Metrics for CSR, you know your reporting is thorough, comprehensive and linked to the business model.
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Semantic search technology tuned to CSR
Gaia Metrics semantic search technology substantially automates the extraction and synthesis of meaningful information from large quantities of documents and sites, so you can quickly, easily and inexpensively acquire the information you need.
Gaia Metrics for CSR helps CSR professionals:
- Distill all the electronic information your business reports, to ensure the CSR team is aware of supporting or conflicting information that stakeholders may consider material.
- See, weigh and analyze stakeholder positions in one easy place, based on what they report on their own websites — before engaging with them.
- Create an easy to navigate index for any CSR reporting standard such as GRI, linking CSR indicators to relevant snippets of information, not just a file name.
- Jumpstart the CSR reporting initiative by building a CSR site map to the information dispersed around your website or other sources.
- Ensure CSR reports aren’t missing anything relevant (positive or negative) that can be gleaned from a public information source …before you publish.
- Compare what the company is reporting relative to industry peers, and also what it’s not.
- Identify the gaps in reporting in order to meet or exceed peers’ reporting.
- Expand the breadth and depth of reporting so the company can show conformity with multiple standards (GRI, UN Global Compact, AA1000, Ceres Principles, Pacific Sustainability Index, ISO 14000 & 26000, etc.)
- Stay up to date with changing regulatory and reporting requirements.
High impact/low cost
Gaia Metrics for CSR costs just a fraction of typical CSR-related information services. Click here to get started saving time and money on the way to publishing your CSR.
Assess and decide
Gaia Metrics can also help companies that want to know where they stand and what may need to be done, before actually committing to a CSR.
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Click here to learn more about how to use Gaia Metrics for CSR to help populate your Corporate Sustainability Report.