The IIRC's remit is to create a globally accepted framework for accounting for sustainability: a framework which brings together financial, environmental, social and governance information in a clear, concise, consistent and comparable, integrated format.
Defra, in partnership with Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), has published guidance on how to measure and report your greenhouse gas emissions on the Defra website.
Charity Finance Directors' Group ('CFDG')
CFDG launched its guidance for charities, Sustainability in Practice: monitoring and reporting at its annual conference on 19th May 2009. It gives charities guidance on how and why they should act and report on their environmental and social sustainability, with best practice examples drawn from a wide range of organisations.
Charities already reporting in their accounts
The following charities include information about their operational environmental impact or sustainability in their annual trustees report. Those disclosures take a variety of forms since there is at present no requirement to make such a report and therefore no suggested or required format. Some of them also publish their policy document or details of their carbon footprint on their website.
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