Tag: TCFD
Roadmap to mandatory TCFD reporting ‘should focus minds’
Some premium listed companies will see compulsory climate reporting as soon as next year. And experts warn that much work remains to be done.
BlackRock backs global sustainability reporting standards
The fund manager says investors and corporates need common and comparable data, amid IFRS consultation on global sustainability reporting.
‘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.
Climate reporting: TCFD urges companies to disclose data
While recent speeches by Philip Hammond and Mark Carney—and a Greenpeace protest—have helped to focus attention on climate reporting, a status report from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures says more needs to be done.
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.
Battling climate change boosts stock performance
Davos became a story about climate change. One research group found that good climate change policies helps boost stock performance—good news for investors.
Regulators make climate demands of financial services
The Bank of England regulator has published proposals on what it expects the boards of financial services firms to do to tackle climate risk.
Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
Investors serious about climate change cannot settle for disclosure; their attention must now be on action, writes Sophia McNab of investment charity ShareAction.
Investors’ fiduciary duty should ‘require’ attention to climate change
Investment campaign group calls for changes to investment regulation so that climate change and ESG factors are included fiduciary obligations.
MPs ask if voluntary climate-risk reporting recommendations are enough
A inquiry by UK MPs into green finance initiatives will also ask whether climate-change-risk disclosure recommendations from a G20 task force will work as a voluntary process.