Tag: sustainability reporting
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.
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.
How corporate governance can drive a sustainable economy
The current social and environmental crisis requires radical action from businesses. Corporate governance can be a key driver in transforming the economy.
‘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.
New drive to integrate UN SDGs into corporate reporting
The UN Conference on Trade and Development and the International Integrated Reporting Council have agreed to work together to promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for building sustainable business models.
Diversity disclosure improvements in US required, says financial watchdog
SEC chief warns that a new rule demanding more diversity disclosure is on its way for US companies.