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  • 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.

  • Industry slams UK government over mandatory reporting delay

    27 March 2012

    The UK government has ducked a decision on whether to introduce mandatory carbon reporting – generating criticism from both business and environmental groups.

  • Forest Footprint Disclosure Project brands oil sector disclosure as 'shameful'

    09 February 2012

    The oil and gas sector remains a black hole in terms of disclosure around its use of commodities that can lead to deforestation, such as biofuels, according to the latest report from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFDP).

  • Multinationals failing to push emissions reductions down supply chain

    01 February 2012

    Multinational companies are failing to encourage similar levels of emissions reductions in their supply chains as they are managing in their own operations – despite high levels of supply-chain climate risk.

  • Recycling fund delivers 50% return since 2008

    26 January 2012

    A UK recycling fund has reached £100 million ($157 million) in assets and delivered an almost 50% return since its launch in 2008.