PERI recognizes this, and allows organizations to provide information from the Guidelines in the format most appropriate to their situation. Regardless of format chosen, the Guidelines enable audiences to monitor how an organization's environmental performance changes over time. A broad spectrum of organizations can use these Guidelines to publish environmental reports. However, each participating organization has the opportunity to decide how, when and to what extent it responds to each element. Customers, employees, shareholders, environmentalists, communities, legislators and government agencies, the media and many others desire more information on the environmental performance of organizations.
PERI seeks to improve and encourage environmental reporting.
This is considered a necessary component for constructive dialogue and cooperation among the different sectors of society. The need to provide a systematic framework for organizing environmental and related information, and The desire to expand environmental reporting to all sectors of society. PERI, through its recommended Guidelines, provides a framework for improved environmental reporting by identifying areas for collecting and organizing information. The Guidelines represent an evolving statement of the best practices in environmental reporting and have been updated to reflect initial industry experience and input from various organizations. PERI reports should clearly indicate the environmental progress made by your organization.