Trucost has worked with Defra (the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) to produce the latest guidance on environmental reporting: Environmental KPI's - Reporting Guidelines for UK Business. These Guidelines are designed to help businesses address their most significant environmental impacts and report on these in a way that meets the needs of current regulation, such as the EU Accounts Modernisation Directive (AMD).

Trucost has analysed the environmental performance of over 3,000 companies worldwide, which means that we can conduct a benchmarking analysis of your company’s environmental disclosure both against your chosen peer group and against Defra’s Guidelines.

This analysis will identify where your company’s environmental disclosures currently meet best practice and where there are gaps. It assists the identification of KPIs that may be necessary for the AMD and provides an understanding of your company’s positioning against peers and standards.

Benchmarking will enable you to:

• Compare your company's performance with a peer group of your choice and Defra's Environmental Guidelines
• Highlight best practice in environmental performance and measurement
• Illustrate gaps in your current reporting of environmental impacts
• Highlight where environmental performance could be improved

David Glinski, Head of Group Environment Health & Safety, Prudential Plc: "During 2004 Trucost Plc was commissioned to carry out research into the environmental impacts of our business activities, and to present the findings in financial terms. As a result of this research, we were able to rank our environmental impacts in order of significance and materiality."