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8th December 2005 - Trucost conducts survey of UK companies' awareness of their environmental reporting obligations

Trucost finds that only 9% of UK companies are aware that their environmental reporting obligations continue despite the OFR being abandoned

28th November 2005 - OFR Environmental Reporting requirements set to continue under EU Accounts Modernisation Directive

Trucost explains the implications of today's announcement by Gordon Brown.

31st October 2005 - Trucost runs OFR Workshops in London throughout November

Trucost, who developed the latest Government Environmental Reporting Guidelines with Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), is running a series of workshops to help companies prepare for the environmental reporting requirement of the new Operating and Financial Review (OFR) regulations.

11th October 2005 - Trucost sponsors UNEP Finance Initiative Global Roundtable in New York

Trucost sponsors the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Finance Initiative Global Roundtable in New York on 25-26 October 2005.

1st August 2005 - Trucost Sector Report - Climate Change and the UK Road Transport Sector

Trucost analyses the impact of the UK Road Transport sector on climate change.

20th July 2005 - Trucost Guide - Requirements of the OFR

Trucost explains the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) regulation that applies to all UK listed companies for financial years starting on or after 1st April 2005.

18th July 2005 - Trucost Briefing - EU Emissions Trading Scheme: UK National Allocation Plan Update

Trucost analyses the UK National Allocation Plan for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

12th July 2005 - Trucost expertise helps Financial Service Companies manage environmental risks

Trucost provides advice to many financial service companies on climate change and other environmental issues, most recently Legal & General, Prudential, Henderson Global Investors and Standard Life.

Trucost's report analyses how the environmental impacts of metal mining companies affect company's valuations.

3rd December 2004 - Trucost Briefing - OFR Update: Sensible compromise or climb-down?

On Thursday 25th November 2004 the DTI published the final Operating and Financial Review (OFR) regulation to a mixed reception. This Trucost Briefing analyses what this means for companies, investors and auditors.

29th November 2004 - Bob Monks invests in Trucost

Today Trucost plc announces that Bob Monks, the veteran US corporate governance activist, has taken a substantial minority equity interest in the London-based environmental research company.

4th November 2004 - Trucost Briefing - OFR and EU Modernisation Directive

Trucost publishes a review of the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) and EU Modernisation Directive, following the possible phased or delayed introduction of the OFR.

26th August 2004 - Trucost Special Report - Developing Environmental Key Performance Indicators for UK Companies

Trucost publishes a special report revealing the environmental KPIs that companies could include in their OFR's in order to provide shareholders with the required information and comply with the new regulation.

15th July 2004 - New report: 'Environmental disclosure in the FTSE All Share'

Less than a quarter of FTSE All Share companies make any quantitative environmental disclosures in their Annual Reports and Accounts, despite new DTI regulation calling for this from January 2005.

15th July 2004 - Enhanced environmental research now available to investors through RREV

UK investors are now able to access environmental data expressed in quantity and financial terms on over 1,700 companies worldwide, helping mainstream and specialist fund managers to incorporate the impacts of the environment into company assessments. Trucost is providing this environmental research through RREV (Research Recommendations Electronic Voting

24th June 2004 - OFR Breakfast Briefing

Trucost and Casella hold a free Director's seminar at the Chartered Accountants Hall, London, on Thursday 24th June2004, discussing the important implications for Director's liability within the OFR.

18th June 2004 - Trucost Briefing - OFR Update

Trucost publishes a review of the Operating and Financial Review (OFR), which will apply to all UK listed companies for financial years beginning in 2005 onwards.

21st May 2004 - Trucost sponsors Green Mountain Summit on Investor Responsibility, Vermont, 23-26 May 2004

Trucost is sponsoring the Green Mountain Summit on Investor Responsibility, one of the largest responsible investment conferences in North America, covering fiduciary responsibility, sustainable investment and corporate governance issues. Trucost is exhibiting and speaking at this annual event.

4th May 2004 - Trucost Special Report - Climate Change And The S&P500

Trucost Analyses the S&P500 constituents for carbon dioxide emissions disclosures, provides estimates of emissions for those companies that do not disclose and applies abatement costs to those emissions, helping companies and investors to forecast which companies will be most financially affected

26th March 2004 - Trucost and Business Eco help companies prepare for upcoming OFR regulation

Trucost and Business Eco launch a special package to visitors at EMF (31 March - 1 April 2004 at Birmingham NEC) - visit Stand 32 for more details

23rd March 2004 - Trucost Research Report - Emissions Trading and European Aviation

Trucost looks at the implications for the European Aviation Indusrty, should it be included in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 2008 as is the UK Government's stated objective

5th March 2004 - Trucost Briefing - Environmental Reporting - Expect More

Trucost analyses the ever-increasing burden of environmental reporting that company directors are facing, stemming in part from a wider legislative focus on improving corporate governance standards.

23rd February 2004 - Dr. Robert Repetto joins Trucost Advisory Panel

Trucost is delighted to announce that Dr. Robert Repetto (Professor in Economics of Sustainable Development at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) has agreed to become a member of its Advisory Panel.

9th February 2004 - Trucost Briefing - EU Emissions Trading Scheme: UK Draft National Allocation Plan for 2005-7

Trucost analyses the UK National Allocation Plan, the UK Government's draft allocation proposals under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which will come into force on 1st January 2005.

10th November 2003 - JP Morgan Utilities Report - No windfall expected for European Utilities

JP Morgan's report on the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme on the European Utilities Sector, uses Trucost data and analysis to reveal that utilities will not receive a windfall as a result of this scheme.

30th October 2003 - Trucost Briefing - EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Trucost sheds light on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and plans to analyse some likely scenarios of the National Allocation Plan (which will determine who the winners and losers ultimately are).

24th October 2003 - Trucost sponsors 5th Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference

As a sponsor of TBLI, a major international SRI event in Amsterdam from 6-7th November 2003, Trucost is exhibiting and Chairman, Simon Thomas, is speaking on 'Can the valuation of external costs lead to a single bottom line?'

8th September 2003 - Trucost is Gold Sponsor at Green Mountain Summit on Investor Responsibility in Vermont, USA, on  14-17 September 2003

Sponsorship gives Trucost a platform for introduction into the USA, with Simon Thomas (Chairman) and Dr Robert Costanza (Advisory Panel Co-ordinator) speaking and Trucost exhibiting.

10th July 2003 - Trucost Briefing - OFR has important implications for Director's liability

This one-page document highlights important issues for company directors and investment managers in relation to the recent release by the Operating & Financial Review Working Group on Materiality, including detailed assessment of future environmental liabilities that companies may have to disclose.

20th June 2003 - Trucost Briefing : US Environmental Reporting for UK Companies

Trucost is sponsoring the Green Mountain Summit on Investor Responsibility, one of the largest responsible investment conferences in North America, covering fiduciary responsibility, sustainable investment and corporate governance issues. Trucost is exhibiting and speaking at this annual event.

9th June 2003 - Launching today - The Trucost Environmental Cost Calculator. Environment Minister, Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP, "strongly commend(s) it."

Today sees the public launch of the Trucost Environmental Cost Calculator. 'Communicating Environmental Performance to Investors', an IRS conference in London on Wednesday 4th June, heard renewed calls from the government, ACCA, Hermes and Arthur D Little, for greater corporate disclosure of external environmental costs.

6th June 2003 - Trucost Chairman, Simon Thomas, speaking at INSEAD conference and University of Leeds conference in June 2003.

Following recent speeches at UKSIF and IRS conferences in London, Simon Thomas, Chairman of Trucost Plc, will be speaking at INSEAD’s CMER (Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources) conference ‘Investor Interest in Corporate Sustainability and the Disclosure of Material Risk’ on 19th June 2003 and at the University of Leeds conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management' on 30th June 2003.

4th June 2003 - New tool puts financial value on companies' environmental impacts - Trucost Environmental Cost Calculator

Previewing today , the Trucost Environmental Cost Calculator allows fund managers, consultants and companies to evaluate the real environmental impacts of companies and sectors in financial terms for the first time. Valuations of these environmental costs are provided as a proportion of a company's turnover, putting them into context. This helps companies meet the environmental reporting obligations set out in the Company Law White Paper.

6th May 2003 - Communicating Environmental Performance to Investors - Trucost sponsoring Investor Relations Society Conference (4th June 2003)

With increasing pressure on companies to demonstrate their environmental performance, what should they measure and report to their investors? Additionally, how can companies most effectively communicate this to investors and increase shareholder value?

13 November 2002 - "Trucost is an excellent system" says Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP, Minister for the Environment and Agri-Environment

Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP delivered a speech at the UKSIF / Trucost seminar in London, to which 160 people attended from the mainstream and SRI fund management community, along with corporates and government bodies.