Global Reporting Initiative promises to make green reports easier to navigate

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New XBRL tagging system to help investors and stakeholders better track firms' environmental performance

It is one of the most common complaints levelled at firm's sustainability reports: they are difficult to navigate and hard to compare. Now leading standards body the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)...

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