In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development first spelled out the common goal of sustainable development. Almost two decades later, The Independent on Sunday has found that nearly a fifth of the UK's top public companies are still failing to deliver comprehensive reports detailing the economic, environmental and social impact of their business.
This week, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) will hand out awards to companies that have produced glossy and informative corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. But some FTSE 100 businesses are being accused of providing disclosures just a few pages long.
According to data from Cor-porateRegister.com, which has an archive of more than 10,000 corporate non-financial reports, 12 companies in the FTSE 100 had, by the start of this month, produced a document running to less than six pages. The longest report over the past 12 months was filed by the mining group BHP Billiton in September, coming in at 380 pages.
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