Summary

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international, multistakeholder initiative whose objective is to develop and distribute guidelines for voluntary reporting on sustainable development. The guidelines are designed for organizations of any size–irrespective of status or business sector–that wish to report on their economic, environmental and social performance from a sustainable development perspective. The GRI's approach has three objectives: comparability of data, transparency of information and accountability to stakeholders.

Since 2001, Hydro-Québec has used the GRI guidelines to benchmark its performance in the area of sustainability. The third version of the guidelines is known as G3.

The GRI checked that Hydro-Québec's Sustainability Report 2008 was produced using G3 Application Level B.

More information on the GRI and its guidelines.

GRI content index

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

• For each type of disclosure above, there is a table containing explanations, references or hyperlinks concerning the reporting elements that apply to Hydro-Québec.
• Core GRI performance indicator numbers are shown in boldface in the tables.
• Additional (optional) performance indicator numbers shown in italics in the tables.
• Symbols (, , ) are used to indicate Hydro-Québec's degree of compliance with GRI standard disclosures reporting elements. Degree of compliance is the opinion of Hydro-Québec alone.