Key takeawaysGRI’s Sector Standards program enhances sustainability reporting by providing sector-specific guidance, improving accountability, and building trust. Effective sustainability reporting supports business strategy, informs decision-making, and enhances stakeholder trust and reputation. Gelkha Buitrago helms the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sector Standards program, designed to help businesses streamline disclosures, improve accountability and build trust through sector-specific sustainability reporting. The GRI standards were already the most widely used sustainability reporting standards globally, but their critical role as a common foundation for reporting was further underpinned earlier this year. Secondly, the UN endorsed the GRI standards by calling on member states to utilize them ‘in a flexible and country-specific manner’.