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Article

10 Apr 2002

Author:
John Vidal, Guardian [UK]

Eco soundings: Voluntary inactivity [UK]

In October 2000, Tony Blair exhorted Britain's leading 350 companies to publish environmental reports of their activities by the end of last year. New research by Friends of the Earth shows that just 23% of those companies have reported, 7% say they might and the rest aren't planning anything. So, after the failure of this voluntary approach, FoE, Save the Children Fund, Amnesty and the New Economics Foundation are working together to introduce a new draft law.