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17 Feb 2020

Author:
Alliance for Corporate Transparency

Landmark research on 1000 European companies shows troubling poor quality of reporting on sustainability issues

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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...

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