Marina Mattera: My welcome to this new course on certified sustainability reporting for all of you managers or people that want to be managers in this field in order to be able to understand better this context, all the elements that are fundamental and we're gonna go over a little bit of all the content that we will be seeing in this particular certification.
Marina Mattera: You can see that it's very cold out here as I'm recording this, so we're going to get through this to warm us up and understand better what are the ends and outs of sustainability reporting. So in this case to introduce our queries, we need to go over the 10 different modules that we're going to be covering. First one is an introduction to sustainability reporting. We're going to understand what it really means, what was its evolution throughout history, what were the different elements that marked the development of this.
Marina Mattera: Even some of the scandals that have happened that followed through the evolution and helped us to understand better how elements that are non financial disclosures of information can really help understand better how an organization is doing. We're then going to move forward with module 2, which is compliance and sustainability reporting compliance. Of course, one of the fundamental elements. So we're going to dig deeper into this one particular area, module 3 is going to cover the global sustainability reporting landscape. We will get a brief introduction in module 1.
Marina Mattera: But we're going to cover all the different elements that could be included and what each framework is targeting, and then we're going to focus on the two most widely used in modules 4 and five, which are the United Nations Global Compact. And this also offers a model for business management. And then in #5 are module will be dedicated to the Global Reporting Initiative or DRI. I'm sure you will all become familiar with these.
Marina Mattera: Acronyms as we move forward with the course after that, we're going to talk about in module 6 of sustainability reporting and stock exchanges. There are a number of stock exchanges nowadays that require reporting to be not only done on financial elements, but also on environmental, social and governance. The ones that now are known as ESG variables. So we're going to understand which are some of the stock exchanges around the world that are requiring this.
Marina Mattera: What type of information should be disclosed? What does this entail for your organization? Because it's important to understand that to be able to report, you must have targets, measurements, and data collection mechanisms. Otherwise, you're not gonna be able to give information about those key areas in module 7. We're going to talk about other guidelines and standards outside of the United Nations Global Compact and Geri, that could be helpful in creating these reports and then in module 8, we're going to talk about the integrated reporting.
Marina Mattera: A fundamental element is that we don't have a separate area for our financials and non financials nowadays. More and more companies are having just one annual report and that includes absolutely all the elements. Some companies choose to have two separate documents, two separate PDFs and that's also great. So depending on which type of framework you're operating in and then we're going to talk about the number one thing that we need to do, which is the materiality assessment to understand better our stakeholders.
Marina Mattera: We're going to introduce this concept in modules one and two, but we're going to go through this much more in detail in case you have to manage the entire design and implementation of sustainability reporting. It will start with materiality assessment. So it's important for you to understand more in depth what this means and how to implement it in your organization. And then of course, module 10 is going to go over different types of successful sustainability reports and going over the elements that should be included.
Marina Mattera: To make sure that you are going to have a sustainability report that targets all the different type of stakeholders in this context is also important to understand how to select the best way to communicate with your stakeholders. So this is it. I hope you are a little bit more excited here. We have the different modules and the ends and outs that we have in each of them. Module one and two introduction Compliance 3 and four DRI United Nations Global Compact.
Marina Mattera: And then five, the Global reporting initiative, Stambler reporting and Stock Exchange Module 6. And then of course other guidelines and standards, the integrated reporting, how we can ensure that we have the different elements being integrated, OK, what are the differences between the different areas and of course, materiality assessment, what does it mean? What are the key steps? How do we integrate it and what are the keys to successful reporting? So I hope you're excited and let's get started.