Corporate Environmental Reporting

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What content to include?

The following fifteen point checklist* highlights the key elements to be included in a report. This provides a comprehensive template of a good practice. Companies are recommended to select and report on the issues that suit their own priorities, business focuses and target audiences.

Checkpoint
Contents
1. Organizational profile
  • Processes / activities and products / services
  • Financial data
  • Number of sites and geographical locations
  • Number of employees
  • Subsidiary businesses / joint ventures
  • Inclusions / exclusions from the report
2. Environmental policy
and commitment
  • Environmental policy
  • Senior management commitment
3. Target audiences
  • Audiences
4. Environmental
management
  • Responsible employees
  • Management structure
  • Environmental management system
  • Audits and key findings
  • Risk assessment and management techniques
  • Training and internal awareness raising
5. Main environmental
impact
  • Areas of environmental impact
  • Controversial issues openly addressed
  • Action programmes to minimize impacts
6. Data on release to
the environment
  • Data on emissions to air
  • Data on discharges to water
  • Data on solid wastes produced
  • Solid wastes management methods
  • Use and release of hazardous materials
  • Historical data to illustrate trends
  • Changes in organization
  • Performance measures chosen
7. Use of resources
  • Data on energy
  • Data on transport fuel
  • Data on non-renewable resources
  • Data on water consumption
  • Data on process raw materials
  • Waste minimization measures

 

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