Adhering to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines

Summary

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a long-term, international, multistakeholder initiative whose objective is to develop and distribute guidelines for voluntary reporting on sustainable development. These guidelines are designed for organizations that wish to disclose the economic, environmental and social dimensions associated with their operations, products and services. The GRI's approach helps to promote comparability, transparency and accountability among organizations of any size, irrespective of nationality or business sector.

Since 2001, Hydro-Québec has used the GRI guidelines to benchmark its performance in the area of sustainability.

In its Sustainability Report 2007, Hydro-Québec issued a self-declaration of Application Level B using the G3 guidelines and this self-declaration was checked by the GRI.

For more information on the GRI and the criteria to be met.

1. Strategy and analysis
   
   
2. Organizational profile
   
   
3. Report parameters
   
   
4. Governance, commitments, and engagement
   
   
5. Management Approach and Performance Indicators:
   
   5.1 Economic
   
   5.2 Environmental
   
   5.3 Social

• The tables in sections 1 to 5.3 contain hypertext links and notes related to GRI standard disclosures.
• The numbers of the basic GRI performance indicators the company is required to report on are indicated in bold in the tables.
• The numbers of supplementary indicators the company is not required to report on are indicated in unbolded italics in the tables.
• Symbols (,,)are used to indicate Hydro-Québec's degree of compliance with GRI standard disclosures (see legend at the beginning of each section). Degree of compliance is the opinion Hydro-Québec alone.