As world leaders coalesced in Paris to agree an historic treaty to commit nearly 200 countries to a global greenhouse gas reduction target, a similar, renewed focus has been brought recently across borders to enhance corporate disclosure to stakeholders on the effects of climate change on their operating and financial results. Corporate climate change reporting remains a fragmented and inconsistent practice around the world and even within many countries, largely because disclosure practices have been driven by ad hoc corporate social responsibility, or CSR, initiatives using any number of voluntary standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative’s G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and CDSB’s Climate Change Reporting Framework. Of late, however, there has been some push to crystallise and harmonise reporting, at least on the national level. Here, we discuss the most significant recent enforcement, regulation and industry initiative developments as related to corporate climate change reporting to stakeholders.
View full memo, Corporate Climate Change Reporting: Recent Developments
