19 November, 2020
Roadmap to mandatory TCFD reporting ‘should focus minds’
When it comes to mandatory climate-related risk reporting there isn’t as much time as recent headlines might suggest. The government has said the legal framework to make it compulsory will be in pla...
30 October, 2020
BlackRock backs global sustainability reporting standards
BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund manager, has put its shoulder behind the creation of a single set of global sustainability reporting standards. The support is timely. If implemented, new stan...
26 June, 2019
‘Single all-encompassing framework’ needed for sustainability reporting
When it comes to sustainability reporting, corporate accounting departments are confronted with a plethora of choices; a huge number of systems that could be used to report a company’s environmental...
24 June, 2019
Climate reporting: TCFD urges companies to disclose data
Last week climate emergency protestors from Greenpeace disrupted the annual Mansion House speech of the UK chancellor, Philip Hammond. A pep talk to the financial world’s great and good, this year...
18 June, 2019
CDP criticises top companies over environmental disclosures
Being named and shamed is never a comfortable event, but hundreds of companies this week shared the experience as campaigners criticised their lack of transparency on environmental information. Ama...
28 January, 2019
Battling climate change boosts stock performance
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS COMES thick and fast. Here’s the news from last week. UN chief António Guterres warned attendees at Davos that the world is “losing the race” against climate change; news ou...
17 October, 2018
Regulators make climate demands of financial services
It’s little more than a week since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...
7 June, 2018
Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
In 2014, when I first started engaging pension funds on the issue of climate change, a worrying number would respond that they could not take savers’ “ethical concerns” into account. Not only a ...
8 February, 2018
Investors’ fiduciary duty should ‘require’ attention to climate change
The UK's investment regulation should be reformed so that fiduciary duties for investors include a consideration of climate change and ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues. The call co...
15 January, 2018
