Reporting Matters

Good reporting serves as a strategic tool to drive change and lead with credibility. For this reason, Reporting Matters helps businesses strengthen the quality, usefulness and impact of their sustainability information beyond compliance.

Every year, we review and assess our members’ publicly available sustainability information and commitments, placing them on a scale of maturity, effectiveness, ambition and action. We provide tailored feedback and identify emerging trends, leading practices and key challenges across the reporting landscape. Through insights, strategic discussions, case studies and one-to-one guidance, Reporting Matters helps companies use sustainability reporting to inform decisions, strengthen accountability and create long-term value.

Reporting Matters is developed in partnership with RY and powered by Manifest Climate.

The challenge

Sustainability reporting is becoming more complex and resource-intensive, yet its strategic value often remains unclear.

Businesses need to adapt to rapidly evolving regulations and growing investor and stakeholder expectations for decision-useful sustainability information. However, a complex and fragmented reporting landscape can make it difficult to communicate clearly, demonstrate progress and turn this information into insights that support decision-making and business transformation.

The business case

Reporting creates value when it informs decisions.

The shift to mandatory sustainability reporting has accelerated developments, and compliance remains an important driver of sustainability reporting. Full value is found beyond compliance. Used strategically, reporting can help companies identify priorities, strengthen governance, allocate resources, and help navigate change.

The solution

Realizing this value depends on understanding the needs of its intended audiences. Providing information that is relevant, credible and impactful, is essential for reporting to become more decision-useful to both businesses and their stakeholders.

Reporting Matters helps companies unlock the strategic value of sustainability information by showing how forward-thinking companies use the reporting process to drive change inside their businesses, while effectively meeting their stakeholders’ needs.

Every year, we review members’ publicly available sustainability information, placing them on a scale of maturity, effectiveness, ambition, and action. Through tailored feedback sessions, we also help members identify opportunities to strengthen their reporting and make it more relevant, impactful, and useful to their stakeholders.