About us

The history of ESRA

The European Sustainability Reporting Awards have been held since 1995. Winners from national awards schemes are entered into the scheme and an overall European winner selected by a panel of judges. These judges are from a variety of backgrounds and professions, but all share an interest in sustainability reporting standards.

Since the introduction of the European awards, there has been a vast improvement in both the number and quality of reporting, with more and more countries becoming involved.

In 2006, for the first time, the European participants are focusing on sharing European reporting developments and best practice from both country-specific and regional perspectives. This is (perhaps temporarily) replacing the European Awards scheme and the ESRA acronym now stands for "European Sustainability Reporting Association", whose purpose is "to inspire and improve sustainability reporting in Europe by sharing developments of European countries".

Governance/ structure of ESRA

ESRA was formed by national accountancy bodies and is not a legally registered entity.   Participants in the scheme include national institutes and local universities.  Please download the participants document for a list of those that took part in the project.

Helle Bank Jørgensen, Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers has now stepped down as ESRA's chairperson and another will be selected in due course. Vicky McAllister, ACCA, is the day- to-day ESRA project manager.

Methodology

Please download the methodology document for a detailed explanation of the project.

Click on one of the individual country pages to download the individual reports and statistics sheet for each one.

Further information

For further information on the ESRA project, please contact:

Vicky McAllister
ESRA Project Manager
Vicky.mcallister@accaglobal.com