How to find a company's sustainability report

A company's sustainability information can sit in several places, and the document you need may not be called a sustainability report. This guide covers where to look, what the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) changed, and how to be sure you have the right year.

Where companies publish it

• A standalone report: a sustainability, ESG, impact or corporate responsibility (CSR) report, usually on the company's website under “Sustainability”, “ESG” or “Responsibility”.
• Inside the annual report: an integrated report, or a sustainability section of the annual report. For a company reporting under the CSRD, that section is its sustainability statement.
• Framework reports: a separate climate report following the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), whose work now continues in the ISSB's IFRS S2 standard, or the company's answers to the CDP questionnaires on climate, water and forests, which CDP publishes when the company makes them public.

The CSRD sustainability statement

A company in the scope of the CSRD reports under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), and its report is a dedicated section of the management report: the sustainability statement. It is therefore inside the annual report rather than a separate document. Look in the annual report's contents for “Sustainability statement” or for references to the ESRS.

• The first companies, large listed companies and other public-interest entities with more than 500 employees, reported on 2024 in 2025.
• The “stop-the-clock” directive (Directive (EU) 2025/794) moved the next wave back by two years: large companies that were due to report on 2025 now report on 2027, in 2028.
• The Omnibus I directive (Directive (EU) 2026/470), in force since 18 March 2026, limits the CSRD to companies with more than 1,000 employees and more than EUR 450 million of net turnover, and to non-EU groups with more than EUR 450 million of turnover in the EU and an EU subsidiary or branch above EUR 200 million. Member states have until March 2027 to bring it into national law.

Many companies outside the narrower scope will go on publishing voluntary reports, with or without the ESRS.

Finding the right year

Sustainability reports are titled inconsistently. Some carry the year their data covers (a “2025 Sustainability Report” published in 2026); others carry the year they were published. Check the reporting period on the first pages before comparing two companies. Searching for the company name with “sustainability report”, the year and “pdf” usually finds the document, and the company's own website is the safest source for it.

How Report Scout lists them

Report Scout tracks sustainability, ESG, impact, CSR, TCFD and CDP reports as separate types and shows them together as the company's sustainability reports. Integrated reports count as annual reports, because they are the company's annual report too. Each report is read before it is listed, and its year is the latest year in its reporting period or title (see the methodology). An alert can tell you when the next one is published.

Examples on Report Scout

Companies whose sustainability reports Report Scout holds, those with the most reports first. Each page lists the documents by year, with links to the originals. All of them: sustainability reports on Report Scout.

• Ameren
• Cemig
• E.Sun Financial
• Freeport-McMoRan Copper
• Inventec Co
• Masco
• Naturgy Energy Group
• Qantas Airways

More guides

• Annual report vs 10-K: what is the difference?
• What is a Universal Registration Document (URD)?

How Report Scout finds, checks and dates the reports it lists is described on the methodology page.