The Global eporting Initiative (GRI) is an international organization founded in 1997 to promote global environmental sustainability reporting standards. GRI was established to create a reporting framework that will help organizations measure and report on the impacts of business strategies on sustainable development and environmental conduct. It published its first sustinability guidelines in 2000. In 2016, GRI introduced global sustainability reporting standards and has since expanded its standards. In 2022, GRI marked its 25th anniversary by releasing sector standards for various industries.