{"title":"GRI \u2013 Reporting Chemical Sector's Environmental Item Disclosures","authors":"M. Suutari","volume":42,"journal":"International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering","pagesStart":1403,"pagesEnd":1410,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/13598","abstract":"
In this content analysis research note the aim was to explore to how sustainability and especially environmental issues are conveyed into environmental items in annual reports and disclosures. As The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a globally wide multistakeholder process, the enterprises using voluntarily GRI framework are considered to be aware of sustainability and environmental concerns. The findings were that although these enterprises included in an environmentally sensitive industry sector and had special capabilities to consider environmental issues there were few GRIreporting enterprises presented substantially detailed environmental items in audited financial statements. There were only slight differences between publishing years 2008 and 2009 - the beginning years of economic turmoil. 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