Sweep: an official GRI Licensed Partner
Sweep, the sustainability data management platform, has unveiled that it officially became a GRI Licensed Partner, with a new module to further facilitate GRI reporting now being made available to Sweep’s hundreds of customers worldwide.
This development underscores Sweep’s commitment to supporting the evolution of global sustainability standards, and to making sophisticated sustainability reporting accessible and actionable for organizations worldwide.
John Knights, Director of Services at GRI, said:
“GRI is committed to enabling any organisation – large or small, private or public – to understand and report on their impacts on the economy, environment and people in a comparable and credible way. We are pleased that Sweep has joined our growing list of Software & Tools Partners, helping their clients to use the GRI Standards to fulfil their sustainability reporting needs.”
Rachel Delacour, CEO and cofounder of Sweep, added:
“At Sweep, we believe sophisticated sustainability reporting should be accessible to all organizations. Our GRI licensing represents our commitment to making complex ESG data management simple and actionable.
Automating cross-framework data mapping is a key element of Sweep’s principle of “load your data once, use it everywhere”. By facilitating this, we’re helping companies transform non-financial data into a strategic business advantage while meeting the highest global reporting standards.”
Unmatched global recognition
GRI remains the world’s most recognised framework for sustainability transparency, with over 14,000 companies and 77% of the world’s 250 largest companies using it for annual sustainability reporting.
Sweep’s support for the standard strengthens this foundation for comprehensive impact assessment, while the GRI-focussed Sweep functionality supports the infrastructure needed for transparent, comparable sustainability performance across industries and geographies.
Rich framework for value-driving analysis
After nearly 30 years in operation, GRI has become the gold standard for organizations reporting on economic, environmental, and social impacts As the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework, the GRI Standards enable organizations to create value by understanding and communicating their sustainability impacts.
GRI’s comprehensive approach, with 450+ indicators across 32 topic standards, enables organizations to fully grasp their sustainability performance – when supported by the right sustainability intelligence platform.
Furthermore, GRI’s focus on impact materiality (how organizations affect people and the planet) provides the “inside-out” perspective that’s increasingly valuable for stakeholders. This complements financial materiality approaches and often serves as the foundation for double materiality assessments.
Sweep and GRI: a sophisticated yet simple combination
Thanks to Sweep’s GRI licensing, the software platform now delivers sophisticated materiality assessment capabilities directly in the platform, giving customers a head start on sustainability reporting. Our experience with global leaders has informed these tools to make complex assessments accessible. This is particularly important as sustainability is fast becoming a cross-functional practice, no longer restricted to the sustainability experts.
Sweep’s new GRI module supports all the GRI’s indicators, with pre-built data points, ready-to-use datasets, and complete ownership and tracking of Impact, Risks, and Opportunities (IROs).
Because disclosures often overlap, Sweep also automatically maps indicators between frameworks like GRI, ISSB, and CSRD, identifying shared data points and recommending where to record information, averting duplicate entry and manual cross-referencing.
Users of the GRI module can be confident that their disclosures are complete, accurate, and aligned with the latest requirements – transforming sustainability data into a source of value-creation which works across all frameworks without duplication.
