Thursday, April 2, 2009

Our World


The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) vision is that reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance by all organizations becomes as routine and comparable as financial reporting. GRI accomplishes this vision by developing, continually improving, and building capacity around the use of its Sustainability Reporting Framework. The GRI Guidelines are the most common framework used in the world for reporting. More than 1000 organizations from 60 countries use the Guidelines to produce their sustainability reports.

The City of Amsterdam hosted the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency with GRI May 7-9, 2008. In conjunction with the conference a photo exhibition on the themes of Sustainability and Transparency through the eyes of some photographers was presented at The Melkweg Galerie to stimulate discussions on important themes.

The photographers included Spain's Pep Bonet, the 2005 winner of the Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant, (he is represented by Noor) America's Chris Jordan and Danfung Dennis, Germany's Katherina Mouratidi, The Netherland's Jan-Joseph Stok and Vincenzo D'Alto of Canada. I was proud to be a part of this thought provoking event.

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