This article aims to present the level of adhesion and publication volume of sustainability reports of Brazilian companies according to the Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) between 2000 and 2008. For the analysis, five variables were defined: i) Economic Sector of companies; ii) Year of adhesion; iii) Application Level Guidelines; iv) Existence of Shares Traded at BMF & BOVESPA; and v) Participation in Composition of the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) of BMF & BOVESPA. As regards the methodological procedures were applied single and multiple analyzes by correspondence between the sectors of economic activity and the 5 variables of studies defined. The results show that the number of organizations that have published environmental reports through 2008 is low. However, there is growing acceptance elsewhere, mostly in Europe, as demonstrated by the number of publications. Brazilian companies accounted for half of the volume of publications in 2008 in Latin America, and the energy sector led this process, comprising 35% of the sample.
Sustainability reporting; Economic sectors; GRI guidelines
