Translation of "Umweltberichterstattung" in English

Increasingly public initiatives are supporting the development of social and environmental reporting.

We will further promote environmental reporting and accounting as effective tools to this end.

It will be accompanied with appropriate legislative proposals to streamline the environmental reporting.

The Commission is presently reviewing the current system of environmental reporting.

Eco Smes - What is Environmental Reporting?

Data sources include in particular internal environmental reports, product specifications and data from external ecological audit databases.

A dialogue between the parties involved in environmental reporting is still necessary.

Indicators are becoming ever more relevant for environmental reporting, both at the national and the international level.

In contrast, well-directed environmental reporting systematically appraises your target groups and their information needs.

Voluntary environmental reporting forms a good basis for working with environmental authorities.

The value of your business’s environmental reporting will be determined by the reaction of your target groups.

The "tools" path provides checklists to help with environmental reporting:

Since 2002, investors have been coming together through CDP to demand more and better corporate environmental reporting.

With the amendment of the EMAS Regulation, six core indi- cators have been provided for environmental reporting since 2010.

In a subsequent step, the previously developed quality recommendations are applied to existing methodologies for environmental reporting.

The new core indicators for environmental reporting (compiled from EMAS III Annex IV C):

The results of WaMos 2 will serve as a basis for forest related policy, and the forest- and environment-related reporting of FOEN.

Secondly, will Commissioner Diamantopoulou repeat her assurance, made to Parliament on 30 May, that if business fails to make progress on annual social and environmental reporting within the two years, the Commission will consider making such reporting mandatory?

It will also support integrated assessment and environmental reporting of the ecosystems that are shared by Switzerland and its neighbouring countries.

Mandatory social and environmental reporting goes against the Lisbon Strategy and militates against the reduction of bureaucracy to such an extent that I find myself unable to support it.

Other supportive instruments for the strategy are environmental management and audit systems (section 4.4.1) and accounting and reporting for the environment (section 4.4.4).

Responding to this, the Commission asked the expert group on transport and environment to produce a further report in which the experts should make recommendations concerning the use of environmental targets for transport policy, a legal framework for the Transport Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) and the impact of e-commerce.

Efforts will be made to incorporate elements of this reporting to the work of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) on general environmental reporting.

The EIR process is related to the ongoing Fitness Check of environmental reporting which aims at delivering a more coherent and coordinated approach to reporting information on implementation and compliance.

Since the objective of this Decision, namely to amend or repeal Union legal acts in the field of environmental reporting that are no longer applicable or relevant, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of its nature, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.

Environmental reporting by companies and authorities needs to make information available at a local level so that people can easily obtain data on emissions from factories or other installations in their area.