How many FTSE-All Share companies disclose information on their environmental impacts?
To find out, we analysed the 2009-2010 statutory annual reports and accounts of 458 companies in our third review of the FTSE All-Share. You can download our full or summary report, or search for your company to see how you performed.
Search for a company or sector
We commissioned Trucost Plc to analyse data for those FTSE All-Share companies listed in May 2010. Trucost analysed data from the statutory annual reports and accounts for financial years ending May to December 2009, and January to April 2010.
You can search for a FTSE All-Share company in one of two ways using the links below:
- Search alphabetically for a company
This takes you to our A-Z guide. Click on the first letter of a company name to see details of its environmental disclosure (or impacts).
You can search by sector to see how companies in that sector compare to each other. You can also see which are disclosing the most and least information on their environmental impacts.
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Key findings
More companies listed on the FTSE All-Share are including information about environmental impacts in their statutory annual reports and accounts;
- Increasingly these disclosures contain quantitative data;
- While more companies provided environmental data, relatively few are following the latest Government guidance.
This is a significant improvement on previous years' disclosures, however this still leaves investors and other key stakeholders with a somewhat incomparable picture of corporate environmental performance on which to base their decisions.
Why have we measured FTSE companies' environmental disclosures?
This report is part of our ongoing work:
- For Defra - to monitor the uptake of existing voluntary Government guidance on corporate environmental reporting;
- For companies - to help your company understand your legal obligations in relation to disclosing your environmental impacts, where the legislation can be found and where the guidelines exist;
- For investors - investors have comparable company information to use when reviewing how FTSE companies are managing and measuring their environmental impacts and related risks.
What is an environmental disclosure?
We followed Defra's guidance for our definition of a disclosure of an Environmental Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
Our report refers to two kinds of environmental disclosure – qualitative and quantitative.
A qualitative disclosure is where a company has made some kind of reference to a key environmental topic in its statutory annual report and accounts.
- In 2009-2010, 99 per cent of companies in the FTSE All-Share made qualitative disclosures.
A quantitative disclosure for our reporting purposes is disclosure of an absolute quantity. For example, total tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. We also look for companies that have followed published Government guidance when making these quantitative disclosures. Lastly, environmental impacts must be reported in a company's statutory annual report and accounts for the purposes of our research.
- In 2009-2010, 67 per cent of FTSE listed companies made a quantitative disclosure of one or more of the three core environmental KPIs.
- In 2009-2010, 28 per cent of FTSE listed companies disclosed quantitative environmental data on KPIs following Government guidelines (an increase from 10 per cent in 2004).
How to measure and report environmental impacts
Download our latest report
Previous reports
2006 Environmental disclosures (PDF, 930KB) Report looking at the 2006 environmental disclosures of the 500+ companies in the FTSE All-Share.
2004 Environmental disclosures summary report (PDF, 1.85MB)
Summary report that examines environmental disclosures in the 2004 annual report and accounts of companies in the FTSE All-Share.
2004 Environmental disclosures full report - part one (PDF, 1.64MB)
Part one of the full report, Environmental Disclosures in the 2004 annual report and accounts of companies in the FTSE All-Share.
2004 Environmental disclosures full report - part two (PDF, 1.92MB)
Part two of the full report, Environmental Disclosures in the 2004 annual report and accounts of companies in the FTSE All-Share.
