The Internet Reporting Report is not simply a survey of corporate reporting over the Internet. It begins to explore some of the ways in which virtuality will drive - or impede - the sustainability transition. But the central question addressed is whether the Internet will spur new forms of accountability. Some reporting companies have experimented with novel IT formats for their reports, including diskettes and CD-ROM. Broadly, these have not been a great success. But anyone who thinks of the Internet as just one more format option needs to think again. Treating the Web as an electronic blackboard to educate outsiders is courting disaster.

This report presents a case study on the impact of trade and investment policies on the environment, focusing of the fisheries sector in Uganda. The study identifies three main concerns: water pollution by fish processing and other manufacturing firms; over-fishing as evidenced by declining harvests in the last 4 years - leading to use of unconventional and harmful fishing methods, including use of poison; and poor quality standards at fish landing sites and in some processing firms which has led to an export ban by the European Union, which takes over 70 percent of Uganda's fish exports. The study proposes both command-and-control measures and economic instruments for sustainable environmental management.