Triple bottom line
ESG & GovernanceAn approach that measures company performance on three dimensions: people, planet and profit.
The triple bottom line asks companies to report on their social and environmental performance alongside their financial results. The term was coined by John Elkington in the 1990s. It helped move sustainability into business reporting, but it has a weakness: social and environmental results are hard to measure in the same way as profit, so the three "bottom lines" are rarely comparable. Modern frameworks such as GRI and BRSR build on the same idea with more specific metrics.
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