When communicating with stakeholders, it is important to link your sustainability efforts to the company's ability to create long-term value. Sustainability reporting alone will not help investors understand long-term value creation. What is needed is an explanation of how environmental and social impacts are linked to economic performance.

Integrated Reporting <IR>, now part of the IFRS Foundation, can be a valuable framework to help you think about the business long-term value creation, and how to communicate about it to the board, banks and investors. Read more on our sustainability reporting resource.

Integrated Reporting is based on Integrated Thinking, which revolves around the relationships between the organisation and the different types of capital: Financial, Manufactured, Natural, Human, Social, and Intellectual capital.

Analysing how the different natures of capital are affected by the company's operations will improve the quality of the reporting and make the allocation of investments more efficient and sustainable.