Business and the environment

This report is aimed at the business and financial sectors, which are beginning to develop strategies on integrating the environment into their activities, following the current legal and political moves to promote the 'integration' of environmental issues into economic activities. It provides an overview of these and other developments in corporate environmental reporting (CER), in corporate environmental performance indicators (EPIs), and in corporate environmental performance ranking tools (EPRTs), including the emergence of standards such as the global reporting initiative.