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Current practice in environmental reporting: The chemicals industry

Bob Ceurstemont, Tom Bolton and Clive Capps

 - a detailed picture of reporting across the chemicals industry
 - a comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of major companies
 - a ranking system showing the top performers in the industry
 - essential information on reporting guidelines, standards and legislation

The corporate environmental report (CER) is becoming an increasingly important part of the way in which companies report their activities. As the focus shifts inevitably towards greater and greater accountability for environmental impact, implementing an effective reporting strategy and producing a CER which shows how seriously your company takes its environmental responsibilities is essential.

Current practice in environmental reporting: the chemicals industry is the second in a major new series of looseleaf surveys reviewing the current state of environmental reporting in a number of key industrial sectors worldwide. It brings together and analyses the CERs of the leading international chemicals companies. Each company's CER is examined in detail using a comprehensive set of environmental performance indicators (EPI's).

It is invaluable to the wide range of stakeholders concerned with corporate environmental performance and to the many verifiers involved. No organisation involved in the worldwide chemicals industry can afford to ignore its findings.

ISBN 1 85573 471 0
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 471 5
July 2001
406 pages  297 x 210mm  looseleaf  
£775.00 / US$1320.00 / €930.00

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About the authors

Bob Ceurstemont is a chartered chemical engineer with over 30 years' experience in coal chemical, fine chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing. As a process engineer and multi-disciplinary team leader he has broad experience of developing and scaling-up batch processes for pharmaceutically active ingredients (PIAs), and of designing and commissioning manual and computer-operated plants. From 1995 to 2000 he worked for BASF, where he was responsible for transferring the technology required for synthetic hormone manufacture in the USA. He also coached the professional engineers during the Knoll Pharmia business reorganisation. Bob is co-founder of Chemical and Process Engineering Associates (CPEA Ltd) - a consultancy based in Nottingham, England, specialising in front end process engineering and environmental reporting.

Tom Bolton has accumulated a lifetime's experience in the international paper industry having worked for a number of major manufacturers as a research and development scientist and in technical and production management and general management. He is author of The international paper trade and, with Clive Capps, is author of the recently published Current practice in environmental reporting the pulp and paper industry and series editor for the Woodhead Current practice in environmental reporting series as a whole.

Clive Capps has over 30 years' experience in the paper and chemicals industries. Since 1990 he has been general manager of CJC Marketing Associates, a consulting and market research company, which specialises in the analysis and review of environmental issues in the paper industry worldwide. He has acted as a consultant to CEPI (The confederation of European Paper Industries) in Brussels, and was coordinator of the handbook, The impact of environmental legislation.He made a major contribution on environmental issues to the 1997 FT Management Report, Managing change in the paper industry. His collaboration with Tom Bolton has led to the establishment of the Current practice in environmental reporting series

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Contents

SECTION A: Review of global environmental reporting
SECTION B: Analysis of worldwide pulp and paper industry environmental reporting
SECTION C: The further development of environmental reporting
SECTION D

Executive Summary

SECTION A: Review of global environmental reporting

Introduction
 - Scope of this report
 - Corporate governance
 - The future of the annual report
 - The environmental reporting concept

Background to environmental reporting
 - Calendar of events
 - The main drivers
 - Environmental pressure groups
 - Benefits and barriers
 - Mandatory or voluntary?
 - UK government support

Current status of environmental reporting
 - The first companies
 - Structure of the CER market
 - Length of CERs
 - The dating issue
 - Extent of group coverage
 - Environmental management systems (EMSs)
 - Award schemes
 - Verification
 - Supply chain management
 - The social reporting element
 - Link with financial performance
 - Cost of environmental reporting
 - Lack of comparability
 - Feedback

Environmental reporting guidelines
 - The range of guidelines
 - Advisory committee on business in the environment (ACBE), UK
 - Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA), UK
 - Business in the Environment (BiE), UK
 - European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), Belgium
 - Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), USA
 - Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI), USA
 - International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), France
 - Public Environmental Reporting Initiative (PERI), USA
 - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), France
 - World Business Council Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland
 - Other guidelines and approaches
 - Design considerations

SECTION B: Analysis of worldwide pulp and paper industry environmental reporting

The chemicals business
 - Definition of chemicals industry sector
 - Profile of chemical industry sector
 - Main environmental concerns
 - Sustainable development
 - Chemicals industry associations
 - Chemicals industry initiatives
 - Legislation

Analysis of corporate environmental reports
 - Methodology
 - Section headings and environmental performance indicators
 - Analysis of global chemicals industry CERs
 - Air Products and Chemicals Inc, USA
 - Akco Nobel, The Netherlands
 - Ashland Inc, USA
 - BASF, Germany
 - Bayer, Germany
 - The BOC Group, UK
 - Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Switzerland
 - Clariant, Switzerland
 - Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Japan
 - Degussa-Huls, Germany
 - Dow Chemical Company, USA
 - DSM, The Netherlands
 - DuPont, USA
 - DuPont Herberts, Germany
 - Eastman Chemical Company, USA
 - Elf Atochem, France
 - EniChem, Italy
 - Henkel, Germany
 - Hickson International Plc, UK
 - ICI, UK
 - Kemira, Finland
 - Methanex, Canada
 - Neste, Finland
 - Norsk Hydro, Norway
 - Perstorp, Sweden
 - PPG Industrials, USA
 - Rhone-Poulenc, France
 - Sasol, South Africa
 - Solutia UK Ltd, UK
 - Solvay, Belgium
 - Sumitomo Chemical, Japan
 - Tioxide, UK
 - UCB, Belgium
 - Union Carbide Corporation, USA
 - Wacker, Germany

Main findings from chemicals industry CER's
 - Overall profile of CER providers
 - Comparison of environmental reporting
 - Utilisation of selected EPIs
 - Comparison of environmental reporting in chemicals and paper industries

SECTION C: The further development of environmental reporting

The future of environmental reporting
 - Key factors inducing changes
 - Future trends in the chemicals industry impacting on environmental reporting

SECTION D

Appendices
 - References
 - Glossary of terms
 - Abbreviations
 - Units