ACCA-WWF Pakistan Environmental Reporting Awards ceremony 2006 would be held on April 23 at Islamabad. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and World Wide Funds for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P).
The world's largest conservation organisation, began these awards in 2001 to recognise and reward the organisations which encourage best practices in environmental, social and sustainability reporting and raise awareness of corporate social responsibility issues and performance, disclosed a WWF-P's spokesman here on Thursday.
The winners of the Environmental Reporting Awards and Sustainability Reporting Awards in different categories (multinational, local listed and non-listed) would be announced at the event. The event would feature speeches by chief guest Malik Amin Aslam Khan, Minister of State for Environment, sponsors and winners.
These awards have now reached their sixth year. In recent years the awards have demonstrated their growing influence as the scheme is endorsed by the Ministry of Environment and IUCN.
The ACCA is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body with 296,000 students and 115,000 members in 170 countries. ACCA works to achieve and promote the highest professional, ethical and governance standards and advance the public interest. The WWF-P is working for the conservation of nature and ecological processes, through the concept of sustainable development in more than 90 countries around the world for the past four decades.