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Production reported to AFEAS, calculated emission, reporting companies only, estimated global production, O calculated global emission, AFEAS = Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability... 

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Half of the reporting companies used Option 1 for their source selection while 30% used Option 2. Two companies used both Options. Of those who did use Option 1, 86% used a xenon lamp source. 

Transparency in Issue Selection. One of the most significant challenges facing reporting companies is determining what information to include in a sustainability report. There are trade-offs to be made between completeness (an approach encouraged by the GRI) and a focus on the issues that are of greatest importance to a company, its shareholders and other stakeholders, and the audience for whom the report has been prepared. Whatever approach a company uses, transparency of process can enhance the report s credibility. 

H. A. Verfaillie and R. Bidwell, Measuring Eco-efficiency A Guide to Reporting Company Performance, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Geneva, 2000. 

Reporting companies estimate their emissions by the use of emission factors, rather than by actually monitoring their emissions. 

Meacher added that if companies did not follow up this voluntary course, he would not rule out mandatory action. He also hinted that he might revert to the name and shame technique to scare the non-reporting companies into action. Eventually, he did in fact single out five non-reporting companies - Asda, Cable Wireless, House of Fraser, Somerfield and the Woolwich. 

The 1998 PIRC survey of FTSE 350 companies gave a figure of 35% of reporting companies disclosing some form of audit, either for the company as a whole or for subsidiary parts of the company. 

As far as costs are concerned, one section of an environmental reporting survey by EAG Environ, a UK consultant, is devoted to this. Using a comprehensive questionnaire, over 100 reporting companies were contacted and asked for their views on the three issues of drivers, benefits and costs of environmental reporting. The questionnaire was designed to capture cost information from companies with different approaches to environmental reporting. These ranged from companies that carried out in-house CER production to companies that relied totally on external assistance. 

There is a high degree of flexibility offered when using the guidelines to accommodate the unique aspects of organisations, based on different geographical locations, industry sectors, or variations in size, structure or operations. Each reporting company may decide how, when and to what extent, to utilise the individual components. 

Reporting Processes Definition of an incident and spili (company vs. regulatory requirements) Data/information to be reported (company vs. regulatory requirements) Incident notification and initiation of emergency response Communications/incident command... 

Data access will replace traditional forms of reporting. Companies will employ complex, multifaceted, client/server report-processing environments that include intelUgent report viewers, tiered report processors, flexible report schedulers, report distribution schemes, user flexibility, and administration tmd control mechanisms. Content agents that allow users to customize their reports and receive data in real time will support these databases. 

Very infrequently a company that wants to commercially manufacture or import a chemical substance that it did not originally report for the Inventory might believe that substance is not properly described in the Inventory. While the non-reporting company is not allowed to use the normal Inventory correction process, EPA may agree to amend the identity of the substance based on information provided by the non-reporting company. ... 

In some special circumstances, such as if the substance is no longer of commercial interest to the reporting company, the non-reporting company may not be able to obtain the cooperation of the reporting company to submit the correction request." In such limited circumstances, EPA may allow the non-reporting company to make the correction request to avoid placing it in an untenable situation." ... 

One side effect of the glacial pace of issuing test rules has been to give industry an added opportunity to be heard before issuance. Not only can a company follow the lists of designated and recommended chemicals by reading the ITC reports, companies are often given an opportunity to voluntarily submit data even before the ITC recommends a chemical for consideration. 

EPA established its Audit Policy to encourage companies to self-report and self-correct TSCA violations. It states the EPA s policy of forgiving any penalties it could assess, or forgiving 75 percent of the penalties, if a self-reporting company meets its prerequisite conditions. Over thirty-five hundred different entities had resolved violations by using the Audit Policy through mid-2008. ... 

VerfaiUie HA, BidweU R. Measuring eco-efficiency — a guide to reporting company performance. WBCSD—World Business Council for Sustainable Development 2000. 

Table I Phannaceutical R D for major companies (Source Annual Reports, Company Press Releases, 2008)...

The Conference Board made this statement early in Driving to 0 research report Companies aiming toward - and achieving - dramatically improved occupational safety and health performance are doing so in an increasing demanding business environment. Expectations for business are often contradictory. Persistent calls... 

After exploring the performance measures that interest CEOs, we can ask ourselves how we can help our CEO report company performance in a positive light. In other words, what can we do to make all of the performance measures listed earlier stack up against our competitors and while meeting or exceeding the expectations of our board members, shareholders, analysts, investors, and bankers Effective supply chain and operations management provides ample opportunity to add firm value and competitive advantage. 

WDR (Water Desalination Report). Company news section 46(3) (2010) 3. 

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