Climate Change – Sustainability Within Reach

Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD): Why it is important!

Climate Change, Climate-related risks, Corporate sustainability, ESRS, European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ISSB, Security Exchange Commission, Sustainability, Sustainability reporting, Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, TCFD / Gwendolen White / May 5, 2024

How did TCFD get its start? In 2015, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors requested that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) create a task force to recommend climate related risks disclosures. Why was this request so important? The creation of TCFD by the FSB illustrated the direct connection of climate risks to global […]

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Climate-related Risks – Why are they so important for businesses to disclose?

CDP, Climate Change, Greenhouse gas emissions / Gwendolen White / April 18, 2024

The impacts of climate-related risks have the attention of companies. You can see this in the increase in companies reporting on their climate-related risks and impacts through a variety of voluntary sustainability frameworks, standards, and questionnaires. These include CDP, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Recommendations, and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Although these

New GRI Climate Change Topic Standards Exposure Draft

Climate Change, Climate-related risks, Global Reporting Initiative, GRI Standards / Gwendolen White / February 16, 2024

GRI has issued the GRI Climate Change Topic Standards Exposure Draft, which is available for review and public comment until February 29, 2024. What is the purpose of this new standard, given that other topic standards such as GRI 305 Emissions and GRI 302 Energy already exist? GRI explains it as follows: The primary objective

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