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  • Climate performance of 3,000 suppliers to be assessed

    31 July 2012

    FirstCarbon Solutions is to score around 3,000 companies on their climate change disclosure and performance, in an extension of its collaboration with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

  • UK opens consultation on mandatory GHG reporting

    26 July 2012

    The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has opened a three-month consultation on its planned regulation on mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting.

  • UK mandates carbon reporting for large listed companies

    20 June 2012

    

All companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's main market will have to report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from April 2013, the UK government announced today at the Rio+20 sustainable development conference.

  • Sustainability reporting falling among large corporations

    18 June 2012

    Regulation is required to reverse a fall since 2008 in the percentage of large companies reporting sustainability data, according to Aviva Investors.

  • Forest Footprint Disclosure Project to join CDP

    12 June 2012

    The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFDP) is to become part of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in a rare merger of two not-for-profits.

  • A mandate from Rio?

    07 June 2012

    Sustainability reporting has come a long way over the past two decades – but could Rio+20 see it become mandatory? Wim Bartels considers the implications

  • Taking stock of non-financial reporting

    22 May 2012

    With corporate sustainability reporting high on the agenda at the forthcoming Rio+20 meeting, Paul Scott reflects upon how far the practice has come in the past two decades – and how far it still has to go

  • Microsoft carbon neutrality goal would cost below $10m

    10 May 2012

    Microsoft would need to pay less than $10 million a year if it were to meet its new goal of becoming carbon neutral entirely through carbon offsets – a fraction of the IT giant's $5.1 billion in profits for the last quarter.

  • Coca-Cola wins poll for CR reporting

    24 April 2012

    Coca-Cola Enterprises has won the award for best Corporate Responsibility Report produced in 2010-2011, in the annual poll organised by CorporateRegister.com.

  • Co-chairs weaken Rio+20's call for sustainability reporting

    24 April 2012

    The call for companies to report on sustainability issues has been watered down in the most recent text to emerge ahead of the landmark Rio+20 sustainable development summit.