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Note: this draft document has now been superseded by the final published text.
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Who should produce an environmental report?
1.2 Why produce an environmental report?2. Before you start
3. The reporting process
2.1 Identify your audience
2.2 Ways of reporting
2.3 Incremental approaches to reporting (also see Chapter 5)
3.1 The content of environmental reports
3.2 Guiding principles4. Environmental performance indicators
4.1 Indicators
4.2 Relationship to other indicators
4.3 Indicators relevant to all organisations
4.4 Indicators relevant to certain organisations
4.5 Constructing indicators
4.6 Supplementary indicators
4.7 Use of absolute and normalised data
4.8 Role of trade associations in developing indicators5. Incremental approaches to reporting
5.1 Incremental approaches
5.2 Reporting by organisations with diverse or fluid business operations
5.3 Reporting by multinational organisations6. Other issues
6.1 Relationship of the Guidelines to other initiatives
6.2 Supply chain issues
6.3 VerificationAnnexes
1. Useful information
2. Glossary of terms
We are grateful for comments on these draft guidelines from:
The Scottish Executive, The National Assembly for Wales, The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and the Next Step, Environmental Context, and Oxera environmental consultancies.
Published 25 April 2001 / Updated 7 December 2001
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