The Truth About South African Corporate Environmental Impacts, Compliance and Disclosure
The Centre for Environmental Rights’ Full Disclosure series of reports assesses the public disclosures of listed South African companies with significant environmental and climate impacts. The reports analyse the extent to which these companies accurately reflect their environmental compliance records, and their environmental impacts and liabilities, in their reports to shareholders. Centre for Environmental Rights
Using the TCFD Recommendations as a framework, Full Disclosure 5 highlights the importance of disclosing a strategy to mitigate climate change risks for companies and banks, investors, and communities.
View ReportAssessment of the compliance of eight large coal mining operations in Mpumalanga with their water use licences which paints a dismal picture: gross violations and water pollution by the operators, as well as massive failures by the Department of Water and Sanitation and supposedly independent environmental auditors.
View ReportAnalysed disclosures by eleven mining companies listed in South Africa about their financial provision for environmental rehabilitation, i.e. the money that mining companies must set aside to rehabilitate the environmental damage they cause.
View ReportProvides further evidence that some listed South African companies are committing serious violations of environmental laws, and are failing to disclose this adequately to shareholders. Full Disclosure 2016 includes new assessments of 10 listed South African companies with significant environmental impacts over the period 2011-2016; and updated information on the 20 listed companies assessed in 2015.
View ReportShowed that many companies which have been hailed as shining examples for their approach to managing environmental, social and governance factors have in fact committed serious violations of environmental laws, and in many cases have failed to disclose those violations to their shareholders.
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