Accounting for the Environment, a new report by OXERA Environmental, finds that major companies within the FTSE 100 index still do not produce a corporate environmental report. Although standards of reporting among utility companies are good, companies in the banking, >>> read more

GRI MEETING SET FOR FEBRUARY 2000 IN BOSTON. DISCUSSION PAPER ON OPTIONS FOR PERMANENT GRI INSTITUTION AVAILABLE. PRELIMINARY 2000 MEETING CALENDAR GRI MEETING SET FOR FEBRUARY 2000 IN BOSTON. The next GRI working meeting will take place on February 8-9, >>> read more

The Environmental Protection Agency of Mexico (PROFEPA) has released its first report rating thousands of the county’s companies on three environmental performance indices. For the last five years PROFEPA has collected data on 6,048 Mexican companies’ air emissions, generation of >>> read more

Managing social issues is a critical reputation asset, vital for the survival of todays corporations. This was the message today at the World Business Council for Sustainable Developments London launch of its second report on Corporate Social Responsibility, Making Good >>> read more

Denmark’s system of mandatory green reporting by companies  with a significant environmental impact (the "green accounting system") is set for its first major overhaul in five years, under a proposal expected to go before parliament before the summer. The most >>> read more

Modern environmental regulation holds polluters strictly liable for the costs of the pollution they cause. But does this liability extend to the banks that fund polluting firms? And if not, should it? New ESRC-funded research led by Professor Alistair Ulph >>> read more

"The Copenhagen Charter – a management guide to stakeholder reporting", has been published by the Danish offices of Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the House of Mandag Morgen. The Copenhagen Charter was launched at the Building Stakeholder Relations conference >>> read more

More than $2 trillion is invested today in the United States in a socially responsible manner, up a strong 82 percent from 1997 levels, according to a study released today by the nonprofit Social Investment Forum. The $2.16 trillion includes >>> read more

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has received a grant totaling $3 million over two years from the United Nations Foundation (UNF) to support the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international effort designed to develop guidelines for measuring the social, >>> read more

A recent study by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a New York-based financial advisory firm, found that utilities with above average environmental performance outperformed those with below-average performance by over 600 basis points during the previous year. The study confirms nearly >>> read more

A recent study by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a New York-based financial advisory firm, found that utilities with above average environmental performance outperformed those with below-average performance by over 600 basis points during the previous year. The study confirms nearly >>> read more

The European Union study report about environmental accounting and reporting has been published and is available online. The study has been carried out by the University of Sunderland (UK), by great suprise in the field of experts of environmental reporting >>> read more