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Alphabet Soup: Selecting and Using Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

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ADEC Innovations | Sep 02, 2022
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CSR, CSA, CDP, SBTi, TCFD, GRESB, GRI, FTSE4GOOD—the list goes on. The sustainability space is growing, and the number of acronyms grows with it.

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