Corporate sustainability – 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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Aspects of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

Corporate sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Sustainability Reporting Standards, European Union / Gwendolen White / March 4, 2024

This is part one in a series of posts to come. In this and future posts, I want to highlight some of the major aspects of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). I will start with how the ESRS deal with materiality, which is fundamental to all sustainability reporting. What are the ESRS? The ESRS

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An important event for sustainability reporting just occurred in the European Union

Corporate sustainability, European Sustainability Reporting Standards, European Union, Global Reporting Initiative, GRI Standards, Sustainability, Sustainability reporting / Gwendolen White / October 29, 2023

On October 18, 2023, the European Parliament reaffirmed its commitment to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). This means that approximately 50,000 companies will have to comply with the ESRS starting in January 2024. The adopted ESRS was amended from its original draft issued in November 2022. Who will have to report? EU companies are

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Demand is increasing for ESG (environmental, social, and governance) Skills!

ESG (environmental, social, and governance) skills are in high demand! I think this is wonderful news. Why is it happening now? A major reason is that ESG reporting is moving from being a voluntary to a mandated activity in many parts of the world. Even in the voluntary arenas, investors are finding that ESG metrics

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Notable

Notable Sustainability Developments of Note Sustainability reporting is rapidly changing. Although this is not a “blog” in the usual sense, from time to time I will post my observations about noteworthy developments here.

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Courses

Courses and Training I teach courses on the Global Reporting Initiative 2021 Standards, the CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) Investor Climate Change and Supply Chain Survey, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Standards (SASB) Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Level I Exam Curriculum. To deliver these certified and licensed courses, I work with ISOS Group,

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