Tag: non-financial reporting
Investment Association calls for better climate risk reporting
It’s the latest warning that investors want to see companies explain the impact climate change will have on their business operations and future prospects.
EU set to review its Non-Financial Reporting Directive
The sustainability reporting rules have faced criticism for failing to produce the detailed disclosures required to confront climate change.
UK watchdog to review companies’ climate reporting
The Financial Reporting Council will analyse how UK firms and their auditors “assess and report” the impact of climate change.
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.
Most EU non-financial reporting is ‘poor quality’
Study finds firms are delivering the minimum required under existing EU directive, with only 14% reporting how they align targets with the Paris Agreement goals.
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.
Narrow sustainability reporting boundaries ‘can amount to greenwashing’
Researchers found 72% of FTSE 100 sustainability reports limited the activities reported on or used illustrative examples to suggest wider compliance.
Better data and consolidated standards needed to drive ESG investing
Speakers at the Global Invest Forum discussed the difficulty of integrating ESG into investment decisions without clear data or definitions of sustainability.
Net effects of mandatory CSR reporting ‘difficult to assess’
Academics warn that introducing mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting rules could have “unintended consequences”.
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.