How to improve the credibility of environmental reporting

This article asks 'Can investors, government and companies work together to improve the usefulness of environmental measurement and reporting?' It explores voluntary pollutant emissions reporting by industry as a means of demonstrating corporate responsibility. The authors find that the registers that have been established are often not entirely compatible. Common problems include inconsistencies in the reported data, data not being available for all years, the general absence of data on incidents or breaches of compliance, and the limited links with related data such as ambient air quality or health.(Original source: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=3816)