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NEW METRICS - We’re scratching our heads over the Global Reporting Initiative’s recent release of the [Exposure Draft](https://www.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/G4/G4-Exposure-Draft.pdf) of its fourth generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (dubbed “G4”).
NEW METRICS - “Now, explain it to me like I’m a four year old,” says Denzel Washington to Tom Hanks in the 1993 film Philadelphia. We pose this same question to the Global Reporting Initiative, the standard-setter for sustainability reporting.
NEW METRICS - While it is common practice now for corporate sustainability reports to include materiality matrices, whether or not they actually serve their purpose is debatable. Indeed, we (the Center for Sustainable Organizations) don't think they do, and have some suggestions for how to improve them.
NEW METRICS - GRI has now formally responded to the *Enforce or Explain* campaign we (the Center for Sustainable Organizations) launched last month in which we suggested that it either enforce the ‘sustainability context’ principle in its Guidelines, or explain why it doesn’t. Motivated, in part, by GRI’s own [Report or Explain Campaign](http://www.globalreporting.org/CurrentPriorities/ReportOrExplain/), in which GRI exhorts businesses around the world to issue sustainability reports or explain why they don’t, our campaign was aimed at GRI itself.
NEW METRICS - On April 30, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will conduct a [second public workshop](http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/story/brands/ftc_sets_sights_on_green_packaging_claims) in its continuing efforts to address the question of how sustainability claims in advertising should be handled.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - The ice cream brand aims to help 5,000 female cocoa farmers in Côte D'Ivoire achieve financial stability and diversify their incomes, for greater prosperity in the cocoa-farming offseason, by 2025.
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CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Earlier this year, P&G outlined a comprehensive framework for its leading brands to increase their positive impacts on society and the environment. But forest-conservation NGOs say they need less talk, more action when it comes to P&G's tissue products.