The recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) received a major boost on 22 March with Belgian capital markets supervisors and its stock exchange publicly declaring their support. Pan-European stock exchange Euronext, the Financial Services and Markets >>> read more

A new report released today by CDP and CDSB shows that there is a gap between the way companies identify climate-related risks and opportunities and how they are preparing to tackle them. The research into 1,681 companies across 14 countries and 11 sectors >>> read more

This week’s Smarter Sustainability Reporting conference saw a number of industry experts discuss the evolution of the sustainability report, with some going so far as to argue that an individual annual report no longer carries the necessary impetus to drive >>> read more

Greater integration of environmental social governance (ESG) factors in boardroom decision making and investor risk analysis long has been seen as a crucial building block towards a sustainable, low carbon economy. After all, finance, companies and markets largely dictate how >>> read more

Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) released a new report that maps global and regional Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting trends. The report shows that in the past 25 years, environmental >>> read more

Sustainability reporting practitioners possess excellent insights into the challenges faced when writing sustainability reports and other sustainability disclosures. They navigate the complex mix of reporting standards, meet the needs of a diverse range of report users, tell the company’s sustainability >>> read more

Integrated reporting is critical to long term value creation.  Since IFAC issued Policy Position Paper 8, Enhanced Organizational Reporting: Integrated Reporting Key, professional accountancy organizations (PAOs) and other interested organizations have raised various issues and questions as they explore and encourage >>> read more

Confronted with an ever-growing demand for transparency and materiality, companies need to find an adequate format to publish both financial and pre-financial information to their stakeholders in an effective way. While traditional reporting reaches its limits, online integrated reporting features a >>> read more

​Understanding how companies contribute to solving the great issues of our time, like combatting poverty, acting on climate action, and supporting sustainable cities and communities is crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But showing how companies are addressing >>> read more

Yesterday at GreenBiz 2018, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released draft Guidance for applying Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-related risks.  ​ The >>> read more

In the last few months, several publications have exhorted regulatory authorities to craft policy interventions that would incentivize a long-term analytical orientation of companies’ disclosures and within investment research content. Clearly, a lot of firepower is being expended on enhancing >>> read more