2 December, 2019
Integrating climate reporting is key to effective risk management
As we approach the UN climate conference, COP25, in Madrid, the urgency of tackling climate change is greater than ever. As more businesses become aware of the need to act and report on climate risk, ...
23 October, 2019
TCFD summit confirms climate risk should be your board’s priority
The recent global summit of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) made it clear that companies will increasingly be subject to challenge on management of climate risk by regula...
5 July, 2019
Integrated reporting: a framework for a more sustainable future
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) are working together to help companies report their performance, as the world looks to ach...
17 October, 2018
Sustainable Development Goals: which comes first?
In 2015, to establish a combined global effort to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, the United Nations set out 17 specific social and economic development goals, which natio...
16 March, 2018
Paradigm shift: Jane Diplock, IIRC
Tipping points are sometimes hard to see when they’re actually happening. Much easier to spot them in retrospect, when the faultlines between the past and present are more easily defined. When it...
8 November, 2017
Non-execs need the right skills for effective integrated reporting
It is a clear expectation that board members are financially literate and any board using a skills matrix will encapsulate this in some way. But what about an understanding of value beyo...
6 November, 2017
Sustainable development means securing the future of business
We need to turn our approach to sustainable development on its head. We need to get it out of our minds that committing to sustainable development is about doing ...
18 October, 2017
FTSE350 governance compliance rises, while stakeholder engagement low
Despite an increasing number of FTSE350 companies meeting all corporate governance requirements, the level of stakeholder engagement has fallen for the third year in a row. Grant Thornton’s
2 October, 2017
