How to: Use the Accountability Framework to guide reporting
20 March 2025
This guide explains how the Accountability Framework can be used to support clear and effective sustainability reporting related to agricultural and forestry production and sourcing. Companies can use it to craft disclosures that are credible, comprehensive, and aligned with stakeholder expectations.
The Accountability Framework provides a structured approach for credible reporting in line with the expectations of buyers, investors, civil society, and other stakeholders. To help reduce company reporting burdens, the Accountability Framework initiative does not provide its own separate reporting platform. Rather, the Framework guides companies in designing their public sustainability reporting and business-to-business reporting, including through the use of existing reporting standards and platforms.
This guide explains how companies can apply the Accountability Framework to support clear and comprehensive reporting on risks and impacts related to deforestation, ecosystem conversion, and human rights in commodity supply chains.