Sustainability publications


Tackling emissions growth

Green electricity to make a difference:
An international overview of renewable electricity labels and markets (Flyer)

CSR: From risk to value

The sustainability agenda:
Industry perspectives

The sustainability yearbook 2008

Review of carbon markets
As part of Tony Blair and The Climate Group’s Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative, we were commissioned to review the state of the carbon markets.

Waking up to REACH: Global companies weigh risks and rewards of Europe’s newest law on the safe use of chemicals
Despite a November 30 deadline for taking steps to comply, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ survey shows awareness of REACH is low, especially outside Europe and the chemicals industry. Failure to meet the terms of this European regulation could lead to a ban on exports to the EU and is a growing concern to EU-based companies.

Sustainability: Are consumers buying it?, July 2008
The report gives you an insight into what consumers think and how they are likely to behave - as well as how retailers and consumer businesses will need to change to address the issue of sustainability.

Going green: Sustainable growth strategies
This PricewaterhouseCoopers report is based on both a global on-line survey of technology industry executives conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and in-depth personal interviews with industry leaders and PwC subject matter professionals.

The corporate responsibility report: December 2007
Using a stakeholder panel, in addition to an assurance provider, can give a more complete picture of a company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance, according to a new survey by PwC.

Ready for take-off? The inclusion of aircraft operators in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
This report examines some of the challenges such a scheme will pose aircraft operators and takes a look at the industry’s present readiness to meet the resultant monitoring and reporting obligations and strategic and operational challenges, based on a survey among leading aircraft operators executed in the summer of 2007.

Becoming a sustainability leader
PwC and SAM Group are teaming up to offer you a unique opportunity to obtain a benchmarking analysis of your company's sustainability performance based on the widely accepted leading assessment methodology used for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) and to address sustainability performance gaps with a view to long-term business value creation and business improvement.

Sustainable investments for conservation: The business case for biodiversity
This study which was presented on 22 February 2007 in Brussels under the patronage of the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, suggests that the model of a "Sustainable Investment Holding" can be considered as suitable for coordinating such a strategic collaboration between institutional investors and environmental organisations.

Building trust in emissions reporting
This report highlights the key characteristics of the world's main emission trading schemes, presents a new vision for compliance in emissions trading and calls for global action to develop this.

Sustainability yearbook 2007: Executive summary
The Sustainability yearbook is the world’s most comprehensive reference publication for sustainability trends such as climate change, new energy technologies and the global shortage of natural resources as well as human capital management. In addition, it addresses the current and future challenges for companies in 58 specific industry sectors.

Corporate responsibility: Strategy, management and value - How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help
PricewaterhouseCoopers Sustainable Business Solutions practice compiled the Corporate responsibility handbook in the hope that it will help to illuminate some of the main issues that businesses operating in a variety of regions and industries are facing, and provide a useful guide to leading practices.

HealthCast 2020: Creating a sustainable future
While no one nation has all the answers to the healthcare dilemma—most have pieces that ARE working.

Financial analysts on social, ethical and environmental information (SEE)
This study examines how, and to what extent, mainstream analysts consider social, environmental and ethical information important to their work.

Sustainability yearbook 2006 - Executive summary
The report clearly shows, a corporate sustainability assessment conducted by SAM in 2005 perceived an improvement in sustainability performance across all sectors: Companies are converging in first generation sustainability themes like corporate governance, and transparency and accountability along the whole supply chain are increasingly visible through policies and control mechanisms.

Sustainability yearbook 2005 - Executive summary
A primer on how to develop metrics for sharing your white water to blue water partnership successes.

Communicating successes of public-private partnerships (2005)
A primer on how to develop metrics for sharing your white water to blue water partnership successes.

Nothing but the truth - Best practice guide for sustainability reporting (2004)
This guide updates the 2001 best practice guide produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers and provides examples of best practices in the area of sustainability reporting from companies in the energy, mining, chemicals, and forestry and paper products sectors.

Integral business — Integrating sustainability and business strategy Global finance annual survey: When doing the right thing provides a pay-off
The corporate world is still searching for definitive proof that corporate responsibility pays — and now the evidence is piling up. Sunil Misser, PricewaterhouseCoopers' global sustainability leader, is featured on page 4.

Sustaining value through people - Turning corporate responsibility into corporate opportunity
PwC analyses the critical people-related success factors that business needs to embrace and a suggested framework within which to address them.

Delivering sustainable communities
This paper addresses the delivery and practical challenges flowing from the policy framework of the Communities Plan of February 2003, rather than the framework itself.


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