The Green Bottom Line : Routledge : 9781874719243 : 1874719241 : 01 Sep 1998 : To date, both internal and external corporate environmental reporting and management systems have focused on physical input?output measures. However, external stakeholders are increasingly demanding that organisations provide more financial information about the costs and benefits of their environmental actions. As environmental costs rise, internal decision-makers are also seeking such information to ensure that money is well spent. Beyond basic compliance, many companies will not countenance environmental actions for which a "business case" cannot be made.  A number of companies ? such as Baxter, BT, Xerox, Zeneca and others ? are now beginning to develop a better understanding of the costs and benefits of environmental action. The US Environmental Protection Agency has also done considerable work on models designed to understand the "full costs" of pollution control investments, with the aim of demonstrat