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GSSB virtual meeting

16 January 2024

Session 1
Welcome to meeting
Introduction to new members
Carol Adams

Agenda – 16 January 2024
Start End Duration Session(minutes)

Agenda item

Introduced by Public/
private12:30- 12:45151

Welcome to meeting
Introduction to new GSSB members

Carol Adams/
New members

Public12:45- 13:00

15

2Matthew Dunn

Public13:00- 13:20

20

3

Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact
Working GroupGRI Topic Standard Project for Pollution

Thamar Zijlstra

Public13:20- 13:25

54

Carol Adams

Public13:25- 14:00

35

5

Any other business and close of public
sessions
Private Session

All

Private4

New GSSB members
Re-elected and new GSSB members will commence on 1 January 2024

Giulia Genuardi
Business Enterprise
2nd term 2024-2026

Rebeca Coriat
Investment Institution
2024-2026

Igazeuma Okoroba
Business Enterprise2024-2026

Tomoo Machiba
Mediating Institution
2024-2026

5

Session 2Topic Standard Project for
Economic Impact Working Group
Matthew Dunn

GRI Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact
Timeline
Project
initiation

Project
commencement

Draft
development

PublicexposureStandard
revision

Approval &publication• Project proposal approved by GSSB on 14 September 2023
• Nominations for working group (WG) members (first group) – approval GSSB today• First WG meeting February 2024

7

GRI Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact
Division of responsibilities
WG to develop the draft recommendations to the GSSB:• The WG will comprise 17 members;• The WG will be divided into subgroups to develop recommendations on specific topics as part ofthe content development;• For the subgroup work, WG members can second colleagues with specific expertise.

WORKING GROUP 1 ECONOMIC IMPACT

Economic
Performance

Anti-Corruption

Anti-Competitive
Behavior

Public Policy

8

GRI Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact
The Working Group nominations presented for approval:

4 3mediating(two academicfrom Europe and North Americabusinessinstitutions
enterprise (NorthAmerica,institutions)Asia)
5 civil society organizations (Africa, Europe and North America)

6 mediating institutions (Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America)
2 labor organizations (Europe, Oceania)
1 investment institution (Africa)*GSSB Sponsor (Chulendra Da Silva)

9Scheduled approvals
Item 01– GRI Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact – Proposed members forthe working group

Does the GSSB approve:
Item 01 – GRI Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact –Proposed members for the working group

GSSB Decision 2024.01 GSSB resolves to approve Item 01 – GRI
Topic Standard Project for Economic Impact – Proposed members forthe working group10

Session 3
GRI Topic Standard Project forPollution
Thamar Zijlstra

GRI Topic Standard Project for Pollution
GSSB Work Program 2023-2025
Update GRI pollution-related disclosures to:• Align with recent developments and relevant
authoritative intergovernmental instruments.

Include in the project:•••

Disclosure 305-6 Ozone-depleting substances;
Disclosure 305-7 NOx, SOx, and other air emissions;Disclosure 306-3 Significant spills.

Other identified new topics: plastics, critical incident management, management of hazardous
chemicals

12

GRI Topic Standard Project on Pollution
Timeline

Project
initiation

Project
commencement

Draft
development

PublicexposureStandardrevision

Approval &publication

Status• Draft proposal to be presented and discussed during GSSB meeting of 16 January 2024.
• Continue research into scope and stakeholders and other preparations.

13

GRI Topic Standard Project for Pollution
Theme 1 – Emissions to air, soil and, waterAir•

Disclosure 305-6 Ozone-depleting substances and Disclosure 305-7 NOx, SOx, and other air emissions of GRI 306 Effluents and Waste 2016.

•Various authoritative documents, including:•United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention, ‘Geneva Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile
Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes’, 1991.

•United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention, ‘Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication andGround-level Ozone’, 1999.

•

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention, ‘Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or theirTransboundary Fluxes’, 1988.

•

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention, ‘Sofia Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of NitrogenOxides or their Transboundary Fluxes’, 1985.

Soil•

No GRI Topic Standards disclosures.

•No international legally binding document.

•International Network on Soil Pollution (INSOP), part of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Water
•

GRI 303: Water and Effluents 2018.

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GRI Topic Standard Project for Pollution
Theme 2 – Critical incident management (including spills and leaks and emergency
response management) and management of hazardous substances• Revision of Disclosure 306-3 Significant Spills of GRI 306 Effluents and Waste 2016.

• Input from sector programme: broaden to critical incident management.
• New authoritative reference:• United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA), ‘Zero draft text of theinternational legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine
environment,’ 2023.

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GRI Topic Standard Project for Pollution
Proposed division of responsibilities and timeline

16Session 4
Any other business and close of
public sessions
Carol Adams

Session 5
Private session

GSSB meetings for 2024
Dates 2024
Thursday, 22 FebruaryTime
12.30 CET

Thursday, 14 March

12:30 CET

Tuesday, 9 and Wednesday, 10 April

2 day in person meeting

Thursday, 16 May

12:30 CEST

Thursday, 20 June

12:30 CEST

Thursday, 18 July

12:30 CEST

Thursday, 12 September

12:30 CEST

Tuesday, 15 and Wednesday, 16 October

2 day in person meeting

Thursday, 21 November

07:00 CET

Thursday, 12 December

07:00 CET

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