Carbon emissions disclosure is on the up – of that there is no question. The first decade of the new millennium has witnessed a deluge of data.

ExxonMobil illustrates this upward trend. The US oil major now produces climate change statistics at almost the same rate as barrels of oil. Its latest corporate citizenship report, published in May, is well-stocked with pie charts and percentage tables: 131m tonnes of direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 1.5bn gigajoules of energy consumed and a 30% reduction in upstream hydrocarbon flaring since 2007.

Eight years ago, readers of the company’s first corporate citizenship report were lucky to find a stray carbon emissions figure amid the anti-global-warming rhetoric.

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