Trucost uses its expertise to provide cost-effective services that help company directors demonstrate that they are taking the necessary steps to meet existing and proposed additions to company law in respect of environmental stewardship.

This service will:

Identify the environmental impacts that are material to your specific business and the appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to include in the Business Review

Determine whether the company’s current environmental reporting is in accordance with UK Government Guidelines - Environmental Key Performance Indicators: Reporting Guidelines for UK Business. If its reporting is not in accordance, Trucost will advise on how to achieve this

Ensure key environmental data required by institutional investors is presented in an accessible form

Provide the Trucost independent assurance statement that a company’s environmental reporting complies with UK Government Environmental Reporting Guidelines and includes the company’s material environmental impacts, after any necessary changes have been made, for use in annual report and accounts. Trucost has been recognised over a number of years as experts in the analysis and reporting of environmental performance.

Rosemary Radcliffe CBE, Chairman, OFR Independent Working Group and former Chief Economist at PwC: “Trucost has a well established and robust process which can help boards of directors decide which of their businesses’ environmental impacts should be disclosed” Prudential Plc: “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”