The phrase "extractive companies" refers to businesses that gather natural resources from the earth. These companies extract and take materials like oil, gas, minerals, or metals from the ground for various uses. Full definition
Financial reporting used by extractive companies does not present the full picture needed by investors (carbontracker.org)
And do not forget that this has all run in parallel to the government's determined effort to resist an important legislative effort a few years ago to establish a legal framework to hold Canadian extractives companies accountable for their overseas human rights impact. (slaw.ca)
In this first look at the reporting landscape of fossil fuel reserves, it is apparent extractive companies do not present the full picture of risks that some coal, oil and gas reserves may not be combusted. (carbontracker.org)