Report Parameters
Since 2007, Fairmount Minerals has published an annual report detailing the organization’s goals and performance in sustainable development. 2010 marked a year of growth and development at Fairmount Minerals, and we are delighted to acknowledge and celebrate key milestones in our fifth Corporate Social Responsibility Report. In addition to our full online report, we also produce a printed annual highlights brochure, providing a short overview about progress and accomplishments for the year.
The scope of this Corporate Social Responsibility report includes facts and figures relevant to the 2010 fiscal year and cover Fairmount Minerals’ global operations, including subsidiaries. To better enable accurate reporting on our energy footprint and associated greenhouse gas emissions, we made the decision to adjust our reporting period back one quarter from January 1-December 31 to October 1-September 30 for each year. We have recalculated greenhouse gas emissions and energy data from previous reports to follow the new reporting cycle in this report.
Transparency around our company’s performance through external reporting is an important element to Fairmount Minerals. We follow the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines in our reporting practices. In order to help our stakeholders easily recognize the detail of our disclosures under the G3 Guidelines, Fairmount Minerals participates in a GRI Application Level check. Our 2010 report, which has been verified by GRI for completeness, aligns with GRI application Level A.
We apply the following G3 principles to ensure a strong representation of information and sustainability performance in our report.
Materiality & Stakeholder Inclusiveness
Our reporting process is strengthened by the participation of our valued stakeholders. We define report content by integrating stakeholder feedback into our own sustainability assessment process to ensure our primary sustainability objectives reflect an inclusive approach. Our Sustainable Development Initiative Teams set environmental, social and economic goals on an annual basis to ensure we are addressing our significant impacts and stakeholder concerns, while building on our strengths. These goals are reviewed by our Sustainable Development Advisory Committee.
Sustainability Context & Completeness: A strong report addresses material stakeholder issues, relevant sustainability objectives and goals pertinent to our impacts across our value chain. The facts and figures found within this report are related to our environmental, social and economic objectives and performance.
Balance: We demonstrate transparency in reporting by sharing progress updates and opportunities for improvement on all sustainable development goal areas. We present favorable and unfavorable results equally and communicate our real performance.
Comparability: We aim to provide metrics over a minimum of four years (less only when the information is not available) and include a thorough GRI Content Index to assist in readability.
Timeliness: Fairmount publishes our Corporate Social Responsibility report on an annual basis each April, following the evaluation of the previous year’s data, performance metrics and feature stories.
Accuracy and Reliability: This report was reviewed by the Fairmount Minerals’ senior management team and is published with their support and approval.