ACCA announces UK Sustainability Reporting Awards shortlist for 2008

ACCA's Awards for Sustainability are held in over 20 countries around the world and reward companies for excellence in environmental, social, and sustainability reporting. The aim of the awards is to identify and reward innovative attempts to communicate corporate performance, with the aim to reward transparency.
 
Speaking about the UK shortlist, Rachel Jackson, head of social and environmental issues at ACCA, said: 'This shortlist includes a wide range of industry sectors, including small businesses. This broad range of organisations shows that reporting transparently and credibly is becoming accepted, albeit slowly, as normal practice. And as the economic climate continues to turn ever-more gloomy, it is now more important than ever for organisations to be accountable for their impacts, and to ensure that corporate social responsibility remains at the forefront of everybody’s business strategy.'

The ACCA Awards judging panel is made up of experts in sustainability reporting, accounting and assurance, and they will be reviewing the shortlist in September 2008 to select the winners. The results will be announced at the awards presentation ceremony to be held on 3 December 2008 at The British Library in London. This event will include speakers who will present on topical sustainability issues. As well as the winners' presentations, the results of ACCA's annual reporting research will also be discussed. This year’s theme partner is the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, who will present their findings on the standard of reporting on Human Capital Management by the 2008 entrants. 

ACCA SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AWARDS 2008 finalists

Large corporations

• Anglo American
• BAT
• BHP Billiton
• BP
• BT
• Camelot
• Co-operative Group
• GSK
• Shell
• Unilever
• Vodafone
• Xstrata

Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

• REAP
• Traidcraft