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Five Attributes That Make a Sustainability Report GreatEcoStrategy Group’s new report, Trends in Sustainability Reporting:  A Close-Up Look at Bay Area Companies, provides a helpful overview of the business value for reporting on environmental sustainability and a solid checklist of issues to take into consideration if you are about to embark on a sustainability report.

The study analyzes how the top Bay Area companies report on their sustainability efforts and rates their performance based on 14 specific attributes including: materiality, stakeholder relevance, target setting/tracking and completeness.

The report begins by exploring the question, “Why Companies Report?” I find two of the answers most compelling: to respond to increasing volume of inquiries and to manage reputation and brand image.

It includes an assessment of what elements make a sustainability report stand out.

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Author: Deborah Fleischer