While debates over climate change rage, there is a growing movement to back the theory that companies placing sustainable practice at the heart of their business will be best placed for long-term success.

This book is effectively a manifesto for this campaign, but also a practical guide to the benefits that accrue to those companies able to combine financial reporting and sustainability reporting. Too many are content to present sustainability activity in a separate statement within the annual report.

While not one for the faint-hearted, this title offers weighty case-study material from a range of organisations that have embedded sustainability best practice not just into their financial reporting but into the core of their activities. Where this gets really interesting is when it starts to force organisations to change not just sustainability activities, but their core operations as well.

While it is easy to make bland corporate statements about sustainability, embedding it into an organisation is much harder, but the results make the effort worthwhile.