15 Global Climate & Sustainability Frameworks You Need to Know
Discover the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) & Sustainability frameworks and standards implemented by Benchmark GensuiteĀ® and how they can help your business
The sustainability management and ESG disclosure landscape is composed of an array of different standards, guidelines, and reporting frameworks and the number is growing. While many aspects of them may overlap, each is unique and comes with its own set of objectives, focus, and form.
Aligning with the right framework is essential to meeting your sustainability & ESG program objectives, whether voluntary or mandated. These climate and sustainability frameworks provide businesses like yours with a blueprint for how to operate in a way that is environmentally friendly and economically viable.
Weāve outlined a number of these global frameworks & standards below, all of them embedded into the Benchmark Gensuite platform.
Frameworks Embedded into Benchmark Gensuiteās Digital Suite
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project)
Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB)
EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
EU Taxonomy
GHG protocols
Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB)
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
ISO 26000
Non-Financial Reporting Directive
Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD)
World Economic Forum metrics
Diving into all these varied and diverse frameworks might seem intimidating, but with industry-leading digital software solutions like those from Benchmark Gensuite it doesnāt need to be. Our software keeps you in align with all of them.
Learn more about each framework, including its specific objective, scope, and focus, with this comprehensive guide.