About RICE
Introduction
Beyond financial information, corporate sustainability has emerged as one of the most important factors considered by consumers, shareholders, investors, current and prospective employees and other stakeholders when evaluating companies.
GCNS' Responsibility Index Communicator for Enterprises (RICE) tool provides a snapshot of the sustainability efforts of a company, enables measurement of responsible business practices, and indicates areas for improvement.
RICE has been designed to map a company’s sustainability efforts to various international sustainability standards, these are:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Ten Principles
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
International Labour Organization (ILO) Multinational Enterprises (MNE) Declaration
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
How RICE can help
Provides a snapshot of your company’s sustainability efforts
Built-in performance scoring that enables you to track your company’s sustainability position
Indicates areas of improvement and suggests where and how your company can improve on its sustainability efforts
Provides a summary document of your company’s sustainability efforts, which can be used to communicate to your stakeholders
For UNGC/GCNS members, the RICE report is sufficient for United Nation Global Compact’s (UNGC) Communication of Progress (COP) purposes
Note on Data Privacy
GCNS and the RICE tool may collect, use and disclose aggregated data externally in a form that does not identify Users. Please rest be assured that this aggregated data does not identify individual User or Corporate representatives. This aggregated data is used to analyse, improve, support and operate GCNS’ services and otherwise for any business purpose, including the process of generate benchmarks or best practices guidance. More details can be found in the RICE Tool's Terms of Use Agreement which is available for review when signing up.