The Business Case for a Green Economy, complements and extends the UNEP Green Economy Report.¹ Written for a corporate audience, it illuminates and clarifies the business benefits to companies that pro-actively participate in – perhaps even lead – the transition to a resource efficient and Green Economy.

This summary of UNEP's activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization’s contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining challenge of our era. The report also looks at the broad range of other activities carried out by UNEP as it follows its mandate to provide environmental leadership and promote sustainable development.

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.

The goal of this publication is to promote reporting by exploring why some companies produce corporate environmental reports while others choose not to, Which major companies are still not reporting? What barriers to disclosure do non-reporters perceive? And how do these compare with the actual obstacles faced by companies that do report?