Sustainability and GRI reporting support

Mumbai-based Nitium helps businesses across India bring sustainability information into a report with a clear purpose and reporting basis. We support reporting using GRI Standards, organising relevant topics, evidence and narrative for your intended audience.

 

Discuss a sustainability report

 

When this support is useful

• Policies, operational data and previous reporting are scattered across teams.

• You have material-topic or stakeholder work and need to connect it to disclosure preparation.

• The report needs to distinguish supported performance, management actions and unresolved information.

 

What we do

• Clarify the intended audience, reporting purpose, period and basis.

• Organise relevant topics using your available policies, reports and completed stakeholder or materiality work.

• Map agreed disclosures to the evidence and owners needed.

• Prepare the report outline and draft narrative around the information available.

• Review the draft with your team and record information gaps or decisions still required.

 

What you receive

• A report outline suited to the agreed audience and reporting basis.

• Disclosure mapping for the agreed work.

• Draft reporting content for management review.

• A list of information gaps and open decisions; file formats and handover arrangements are agreed at scoping.

 

What we need from your team

Share your reporting objectives, existing policies and reports, ESG data and any completed stakeholder or materiality work. Identify the people responsible for topic decisions, underlying records and final approval. If foundational work is incomplete, identify it during scoping rather than assuming a writing exercise can replace it.

 

How the work proceeds

• Clarify: settle who will use the report and the reporting basis.

• Scope: agree the topics, disclosures, available materiality inputs and responsibilities.

• Prepare: build the outline, map evidence and draft supported content.

• Review and hand over: reconcile feedback, preserve gaps and identify the version approved by management.

 

Example: keep an impact and an initiative distinct

Hypothetical reporting example, not a Nitium client assessment. A manufacturer records a concern about groundwater withdrawal at one plant and a separate water-reuse initiative. The draft should explain the evidence and unresolved questions for each. Describing the initiative does not settle whether withdrawal affects neighbouring users. A technical or stakeholder evidence gap remains visible in the topic record.

 

Scope and responsibilities

The service covers the agreed reporting preparation. A completed outline, index or workshop does not automatically justify an “in accordance with the GRI Standards” statement. The intended statement of use must be supported by the relevant requirements and completed work. Independent assurance, legal opinions and certification are outside this offer. Specialist impact assessment or new stakeholder research should not be assumed to be included.

 

What affects the scope and fee?

The reporting audience and basis, topics and disclosures in scope, availability of supporting records, and number of review rounds affect the work involved. Share the reporting period, intended release date, existing reports and outstanding topic decisions so we can agree the deliverables and responsibilities before quoting.

 

Questions before you begin

Do we need completed material-topic work before speaking to you?

No. Share what exists and what remains undecided. The reporting scope should distinguish using existing inputs from any further work needed before disclosures can be supported.

 

Can one report satisfy BRSR, GRI and climate reporting needs?

These can have different audiences and requirements. Identify the actual obligations and intended use, then map the agreed outputs; do not assume one reporting label covers them all.

 

Can you promise a report “in accordance with the GRI Standards”?

That statement depends on the relevant requirements and completed reporting work. It is not promised simply because GRI informs the report outline or disclosure mapping.

 

Who approves the report’s claims?

Your team supplies the evidence and management approves final disclosures. Drafting and reviewing content do not transfer that responsibility.

 

How do we set the timetable?

Share the intended release date, existing reports, data availability and outstanding topic decisions. Agree preparation and review dependencies before committing to a schedule.

 

​Discuss your sustainability report

Tell us who the report is for, the reporting period, your intended basis and the information or topic work already available.

 

A short, non-confidential outline is enough. Do not include confidential records or sensitive personal information in the initial enquiry.

 

Discuss a sustainability report