Pakistan Environmental Reporting Awards (PERA) journey has come along six years now and in this time frame the scheme has not only increased environmental awareness in the corporate sector but has also improved environmental performance of companies and industrial concerns enhancing their corporate reputation as green citizens.
It has also provided corporations with an excellent opportunity to communicate their sense of responsibility towards the environment by publicly disclosing their environment friendly policies, targets and long-term objectives. This year an even better trend than last year has been witnessed in terms of quality and quantity of the reports received.
Quite a diverse group of companies are coming forward and sharing their companies information which indicates a very healthy trend towards a transparent corporate sector. With this encouraging figures we are very hopeful that the scheme jointly launched by WWF Pakistan and ACCA will go a long way in promoting sustainability reporting in the country.