AA1000 represents not one standard, but three. All are linked by a common purpose: to provide accountability to stakeholders regarding companies’ approach to managing sustainability.

The standards owe their origins to AccountAbility, a London-based sustainability specialist.

The AA1000 AccountAbility Principles Standard (AA1000APS) leads the pack in terms of providing an ideological hook on which the other standards hang. Originally included as part of the original 2003 version AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS), the principles now stand by themselves.

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