Sustainability and Environmental Reporting: A Critical Review

Finance Assignment

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By student name
Professor
University
Date: 25 April 2018.
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Contents
Introduction and Background......................................................................................................................3
Critical Review on Sustainability through case studies................................................................................4
Paper 1 : A case of Tailing Storage Facilities............................................................................................4
Paper 2: Corporate Social Responsibilities: Alternative Perspectives About the Need to Legislate.........5
Paper 3: A test Of Legitimacy Theory.......................................................................................................6
Paper 4: A study Of a Multinational Gas Company..................................................................................7
Critical Review on BHP.................................................................................................................................8
References.................................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction and Background
In the given assignment, a report has been prepared on the topic of sustainability and
environmental reporting. In the first section, the critical review of the sustainability has been
done using some of the case studies like Legitimacy Theory, the study on multinational gas
company, alternative perspectives to the need of statute on the corporate social responsibility. In
the second section of the report, the sustainability report of one of the listed companies, BHP
Billiton has been studied to understand the various aspects of sustainability and corporate social
responsibility and how the companies are making putting in efforts and making reforms to meet
their social responsibilities. It has also been analysed that whether the company has made the
proper disclosures about the same as the law and business charter demands the same to be a part
of public reporting. It has been particularly seen off late that the companies involved in mining
business are very transparent in this aspect as it forms a part of the Global Reporting Initiative
(GRI) Reporting. Therefore, the companies disclose all the social, environmental and economic
aspects in relation to the same.
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