The Environmental Policy and Reporting subcategory includes a company’s policies and intention to reduce the environmental impact of a company and its value stream to levels that are healthy for the company and for the environment, now and in the future.

The data includes the company’s environmental reporting performance, adherence to environmental reporting standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative, and compliance with investor, regulatory and stakeholders’ requests for transparency. Compliance data consists of breaches of regulatory limits and accidental releases.