Announcing the winners of ACCA/WWF PERA 2002
“Unlike government inspired legislation, which has the chance of being implemented without being currently understood by the enforcing executive authority, the PERA experiment seeks to motivate the business community to assess its production processes, factor inputs, the impact of ecology and surroundings ” said Yawar Irfan Khan during his speech.
“I commend this initiative taken by ACCA and WWF Pakistan to raise the profile of environmental reporting among companies in Pakistan by introducing ACCA/WWF Pakistan Environmental Reporting Awards ( PERA). We hope that the initiative will encourage more voluntary environmental reporting from all type of businesses, thus proving that we can integrate the environmental concerns in economic decision-making.”
Arif Masud Mirza, ACCA’s Head of Pakistan Affairs said “The aim of the Awards is to identify and reward innovative attempts to communicate corporate performance, although ACCA/WWF do not comment on performance itself. We want to reward organisations which report and disclose environmental information, raise awareness in corporate transparency issues and encourage the uptake of environmental reporting.”
The inaugural ACCA/WWF Pakistan Environmental Reporting Awards was launched in April 2002. When entries closed on 30 September 2002, eleven entries were received:
Please find further details on the winners in the 2002 Report of the Judges.
For further information please contact:
Sophia Amjad
ACCA
sophia.amjad@pk.accaglobal.com
Hania Aslam
WWF-Pakistan
epu@wwf.org.pk