The Global Reporters

The Global Reporters spotlights emerging best practice around the world, focusing on a number of key sectors and 'hot topics Significantly, it introduces and applies a radically revised methodology for assessing reports. As far as we are aware, this is the first-ever international benchmark survey of corporate sustainability reports and reporting. This report is part of the joint UNEP/SustainAbiIty Engaging Stake holders programme, which had the early aims of: promoting wider and more honest company environmental reporting; cataloguing and analysing sectoral trends; tracking and evaluating trends in the main world regions; reviewing and responding to the latest reports; exploring the links between current reports and sustainable development reporting. Building on these aims, the specific objectives of the 2000 survey are to establish a robust basis on which to assess the quality of the latest sustainability reports; explore the main trends in relation to different sectors and emerging hot topics'; highlight indications of how sustainability reporting presently aligns (or not) with society's emerging sustainable development agenda; indicate early expectations for 2001 and 2002 reporting.