Summary
The objectives of the Australian Framework for Public Environmental Reporting are: (1) to provide flexible and broad guidance at a national level on voluntary public environmental reporting; (2) to facilitate voluntary environmental reporting within private and public sectors to provide simple and effective guidance on how to report and what to report; (3) to facilitate reporting to stakeholders with reliable information relevant to their needs and interests; (4) to facilitate transparency, credibility and more consistency in reporting; (5) to be compatible with other related national and international guidelines such as GRI; (6) to be a continuously evolving document that is periodically reviewed and updated.