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creating a better place

Environmental disclosures

The Second Major Review of Environmental Reporting in the Annual Report & Accounts of the FTSE All-Share

We are the Environment Agency. It’s our job to look after your environment and make it a better place – for you, and for future generations. Your environment is the air you breathe, the water you drink and the ground you walk on. Working with business, Government and society as a whole, we are making your environment cleaner and healthier. The Environment Agency. Out there, making your environment a better place.

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About the authors

Trucost Plc is an environmental research company, which helps companies and investors understand the environmental impacts of business activities in financial terms.

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Environment Agency FTSE All-Share Environmental Disclosures

Foreword

A key priority of the Environment Agency identified in our corporate strategy is “greening business”. We think business and the city has a key role to play in protecting and improving the environment for current and future generations.

Companies that manage environmental risks and reduce their consumption of natural resources can save significant sums of money which benefits their profitability and public reputation. How companies use raw materials and energy, transport goods and services, carry out their day to day business, release emissions and dispose of waste, and respond to climate change, is important to our economy, shareholders, customers and society. Therefore we think that companies should report and summarise their environmental performance against specific targets using key performance...