Discussions concerning companies’ environmental aspects gained considerable importance and challenged business in recent years. Comprehensible and authentic as well as customised corporate environmental reporting requires substantial quantities of relevant information. In order to automate corporate environmental reporting, ...

Umweltberichte bilden die Kerninstrumente der betrieblichen Umweltberichterstattung. Angesichts steigender Anforderungen bzgl. Automatisierung, medialer Verfügbarkeit und Zielgruppenspezifizierung bietet der Einsatz des Internet in Verbindung mit der Auszeichnungssprache XML dabei große Gestaltungschancen und eröffnet ...

The paper provides an outline of a research initiative embedded in the environmental informatics community focused on the use of environmental informatics methods and the application of current internet technologies and services with the goal to improve sustainability reporting at corporate level. The outline includes ...

In this paper, we propose a reference architecture for sustainability reports based on the eXtensible Businesses Reporting Language (XBRL) which in particular meets – among others – the forthcoming requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) sustainability reporting guidelines, to be released in late 2006. ...