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1. If the company releases an Integrated Report (mark cell = 1, 0 otherwise)
None of the considered companies has filed an integrated report in the 2012-2014 period.
2. If the company releases a Sustainability Report (mark cell = 1, 0 otherwise)
General Motors, Caterpillar Inc and Suncor Energy filed an annual Sustainability Report in the 20122014 period.
3. If the company does not have any of these, look in the annual report for disclosures on
sustainability (mark cell = 1 if they have, 0 otherwise)
Even while Texas Instruments has not filed an independent integrated or sustainability report in the
period considered, the company started reported about its relationship with the surrounding
environment and its attempt to better protect it through sustainability in the annual report of 2014
(page 11). The Bank of Montreal, on the other hand, encouraged environmental protection and
sustainability in the 2012-2014 according to the information provided in the respective annual
reports.
4. If the company follows the GRI guidelines (mark cell = 1, 0 otherwise)
Texas Instruments does not only follow Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, but encourages its
suppliers to follow them as well. Even while no information as to when this has started is provided
by the company, the company used guideline G3 in the preparation of its Corporate Citizenship
Report in 2012. Similarly, Suncor energy uses the GRI guidelines in the preparation of its
sustainability reports, and Bank of Montreal takes them into account when evaluating the
company’s relationship with the environment and sustainability on its annual reports.
5. If the company follows the SASB standards (mark cell = 1, 0 otherwise)
None of the target companies seem to use the SASB standards in the 2012-2014 period.
6. We talked in class about these different reports and standards. Based on the data you collected.
Did these companies change their level of disclosure on sustainability during this period?
The only visible change in the reporting of their relationship with the environment and promoting
sustainability was observed in the 2014 annual report of Texas Instruments. These topics were not
included in the previous annual reports.
Pick one of the companies and answer the following questions:
1. Does the company provide information about the environment in the three years? Copy one
example from one of them with page #.
The Sustainability Reports of the Suncor Energy company analyse the environmental performance of
the company in the respective year and the fulfilment of the environmental goals. An example of
where the company provides information about the environment is the decrease in the water
consumption through recycling procedures (Suncor Energy 2012 Sustainability Repor...