PracticalESG.com's Compendium of Sustainability Financial Disclosure Analyzes Reporting of Financial Gains from Sustainability by 100+ US Companies
Only 27% of companies disclose financial benefits of sustainability in 10-Ks; 34% do so in sustainability/ESG reports.
September 15, 2025 2:22 PM EDT | Source: EP Executive Press (dba CCR Corp)
Austin, Texas--(Newsfile Corp. - September 15, 2025) - CCRcorp, the parent company of environmental, social and corporate governance resource PracticalESG.com, is pleased to announce the release of the Compendium of Sustainability Financial Disclosure: Over 100 Selected U.S. Publicly Traded Companies on September 16.
The first-of-its-kind Compendium summarizes accounting and regulatory disclosure mandates impacting sustainability topics, with excerpts from over 100 U.S. publicly traded companies on financial values relating to sustainability programs publicly disclosed in financial statements and corporate sustainability/ESG reports. PracticalESG.com Editor Lawrence Heim goes on to explain why some costs and benefits may be material but not reported or identified in financial statements.
"Our research found a surprising disparity in how U.S. publicly traded companies treat sustainability in financial reports," he said. "Even in sustainability/ESG reports, financial elements focus heavily on spending. Few U.S. companies explicitly report returns or upsides of their programs in formal disclosures. Investors, activists, regulators and others are left to make their own assumptions about the value of corporate sustainability."
The publication also features a list of relevant and meaningful financial metrics/values that can be generated from sustainability data already gathered by companies, as well as guidance on how to use this information.
The Compendium on Sustainability Financial Disclosure: Over 100 Selected U.S. Publicly Traded Companies will be available for purchase online starting September 16 at memberships.ccrcorp.com/practical-esg-compendium.
As a point of curiosity, PracticalESG.com compared its results to those produced by common, publicly available artificial intelligence systems and found significant discrepancies and omissions in the AI results versus manual reviews of the source documents, demonstrating that the research cannot be replicated accurately using general AI systems.
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Contact: Chantal Ayers, PESG@CCRcorp.com
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