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SUCCESSFUL REPORTING INITIATIVES

Tell everyone who may be interested about the groups that exist specifically to help businesses reduce their emissions. There is the Global Reporting Initiative, which has pioneered the development of the world’s most widely-used sustainability reporting framework. This sets out the principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance. The cornerstone of the framework is the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. The third version – known as the G3 Guidelines – was published in 2006, and is available free. Other components of the framework include sector supplements (unique indicators for different industry sectors) and protocols (detailed reporting guidance), and national annexes (unique country-level information). GRI promotes and develops this standardized approach to reporting to stimulate demand for sustainability information, which will benefit both reporting organizations and those who use information from their reports. GRI develops learning materials and accredits training partners, and also provides special guidance for SMEs. More than 1 500 companies worldwide, many of them household names, have announced that they have voluntarily adopted the Guidelines. The GRI is a collaborating centre of the UN Environment Programme.

Then there is the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which works with shareholders and companies to disclose the companies’ greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007 it published the world’s largest repository of GHG emissions and energy use data, covering 2 400 of the world’s largest corporations, which account together for 26 per cent of global anthropogenic emissions. The CDP represents institutional investors, with a combined US$57 million million under management. Individual governments have been reluctant to develop stringent national emissions limits for fear that big companies will move their factories to nations with laxer regulations. The CDP tries to get round these national interests by focusing on individual companies, not on countries. It unites institutional investors to focus attention on carbon emissions, energy usage and reduction wherever companies and assets are located. Some companies have higher GHG emissions than individual nations. A number have moved to become carbon-neutral, but others can still reduce energy use and emissions by adopting energy efficiency policies and business planning. The CDP has also begun establishing a globally-used standard for emissions and energy reporting. Much of the data it has obtained has never been collected before. An estimated US$27 thousand million will be spent over the next 30 years on energy-related capital developments (new power stations, fuel distillation plants, etc.), so it is vital that the right technologies are adopted. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119  |  Page 120  |  Page 121  |  Page 122  |  Page 123  |  Page 124  |  Page 125  |  Page 126  |  Page 127  |  Page 128  |  Page 129  |  Page 130  |  Page 131  |  Page 132  |  Page 133  |  Page 134  |  Page 135  |  Page 136  |  Page 137  |  Page 138  |  Page 139  |  Page 140  |  Page 141  |  Page 142  |  Page 143  |  Page 144  |  Page 145  |  Page 146  |  Page 147  |  Page 148  |  Page 149  |  Page 150  |  Page 151  |  Page 152  |  Page 153  |  Page 154  |  Page 155  |  Page 156  |  Page 157  |  Page 158  |  Page 159  |  Page 160  |  Page 161  |  Page 162  |  Page 163  |  Page 164  |  Page 165  |  Page 166  |  Page 167  |  Page 168  |  Page 169  |  Page 170  |  Page 171  |  Page 172  |  Page 173  |  Page 174  |  Page 175  |  Page 176  |  Page 177  |  Page 178  |  Page 179  |  Page 180  |  Page 181  |  Page 182  |  Page 183  |  Page 184  |  Page 185  |  Page 186  |  Page 187  |  Page 188  |  Page 189  |  Page 190  |  Page 191  |  Page 192  |  Page 193  |  Page 194  |  Page 195  |  Page 196  |  Page 197  |  Page 198  |  Page 199  |  Page 200  |  Page 201  |  Page 202
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