Landmark research on 1000 European companies shows troubling poor quality of reporting on sustainability issues
17 February 2020
Common problems
- Disclosures are not specific enough to enable understanding of a company’s position and future developments...
Climate
- 13.9% of companies report on alignment of their climate targets with the Paris agreement goals...
- Only 13.4% of financial companies provide details on the exposure of their portfolios to the most polluting sectors.
Human rights
- 22.2% of companies provide some information on their human rights due diligence process, despite 82.8% reporting a human rights policy...
- 25.5% of companies disclose specific human rights risks facing them..., yet only 14.6% report on the actual impacts..
- 13.6% of companies in the Apparel & Textiles... do disclose their ultimate suppliers in high-risk countries for human rights, which is a major improvement
Anti-Corruption
- A vast majority (88.1%) of companies report on anti-corruption policies, but only 33.7% describe how these are implemented...