AmeriGreen Strategies

WHY SARBANES-OXLEY?

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed by Congress in 2002 to establish strict standards for the reporting, accounting and auditing of the financial and IT operations of publicly-held corporations. It establishes strict standards governing everything from the qualifications of the auditors to the specific procedures, documentation and accountability standards that must be met during the audit process.

Professionals from various government agencies, municipalities, industry trade groups and manufacturers have voiced concerns over the lack of any formal accreditation policies to address the growing number of claims dealing with sustainable performance and environmental benefits. A representative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently commented that “All products are green. Until we have standards in place that define what is considered green, anything can be claimed.”

Even though our work with various corporations, products and spectator events has little to do with Information Technology or balance sheets, AmeriGreen Strategies has chosen to embrace the internationally accepted SOX reporting, monitoring and assessment protocols and adapt them to the green environment in order to provide a single standard basis for objective evaluation.

We couple these auditing and reporting methods to equally-established industry sustainability standards, such as those developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and this forms the basis for our methodology.