An on-line archive of corporate sustainability reports, stretching back to the 1980s, has been developed as part of a joint project involving the German federal environment agency (Umweltbundesamt) and the London-based Next Step Consulting. It can be found at http://www.corporate-register.com.

Around two-and-a-half thousand reports have been documented on the site, which is searchable by company, year, sector or country. Also catalogued are any company affiliations, for example to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development or to the various sustainable development stock market indexes.

Headline figures from the archive reveal that the country with the largest number of reports published is the UK, followed by Germany, the US and Sweden.

For further details, contact Paul Scott (post@nextstep.co.uk) or Reinhard Peglau (reinhard.peglau@uba.de).