Tag: ESG reporting
Sustainability in spotlight at IIRC Global Conference
This year’s IIRC Global Conference will be held online, enabling it to reach a wider audience in a year that has made integrated reporting more relevant than ever.
Better sustainability disclosures require clear reporting boundaries
Sustainability reporting needs to be internally consistent, theoretically sound and a useful source of data for decision-making. We’re not there yet.
How to hold businesses to account on carbon? Include their supply chains
Supply chains contribute significantly to a firm’s carbon footprint and can amount to four times the organisation’s own operational emissions.
UK firms urged to improve carbon emissions reporting
Study reveals a lack of reliable data from UK companies and their suppliers, with large unexplained spikes in carbon emissions.
Hong Kong companies ‘failing to integrate ESG’ into policies and planning
Report warns that a majority of Hong Kong companies still regard ESG as an “ancillary” subject and not a “key concern in actual company business”.
Controversy in Hong Kong over mandatory ESG reporting
While many organisations see mandatory ESG reporting as essential for the future of Hong Kong’s markets, others argue they are too expensive or undermined by a lack of standardisation.
Integrated reporting: a framework for a more sustainable future
The International Integrated Reporting Framework will help companies translate their commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals into business models and corporate purpose.
‘Single all-encompassing framework’ needed for sustainability reporting
Research by the Better Alignment Project highlights confusion over differing sustainability reporting frameworks and the language and taxonomy they use.
CDP criticises top companies over environmental disclosures
Organisations including Amazon, Apple and Berkshire Hathaway are named and shamed by the international non-profit for ‘insufficient transparency’ in their environmental disclosures.
ESG catalysts: how consumers can change corporations
Some companies encounter obstacles to full integration of ESG principles. It may be that consumers have more power than they imagine to change corporate behaviours for the better.