Businesses should embrace climate risk planning to avoid financial losses and maximize opportunities. An essential part of this process is bringing transparency to the material climate issues they face through clear, comprehensive, climate-related disclosures. The retail sector faces many climate risks and opportunities. Investors in retail companies want to understand how these are being managed […]
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Women Governance Trailblazers – Laura Zizzo
Episode 344: Sustainability Professionals Share Hopes for 2023
Emissions Reporting is About More Than Numbers
International climate action must be guided by clear, credible data. When it comes to climate mitigation targets, this means accurate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting and verification. There’s a lot more to producing high-quality emissions disclosures than crunching numbers, however. Organizations have to set up policies and processes for gathering emissions data from across business […]
Mastering TCFD Will Pay Dividends in 2023’s Regulatory Landscape
Climate Risk Regulation Rundown: November 2022
What happened in climate-related financial regulation last month, and what’s coming up. Americas The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) for failing to honor policies and procedures linked to three environmental, social, and governance (ESG) products. In an order published November 22, the agency said GSAM will pay a […]
Decision-Usefulness of Companies’ TCFD Disclosures Lacking
CDP Reporting Annual Disclosure Updates for 2023
Today’s climate disclosure landscape is quickly evolving. Amid the emergence of regulatory climate disclosure requirements, and in order to remain relevant, well known voluntary disclosure standards are changing. CDP, the sustainability disclosure non-profit, is one example. The organization updates its disclosure framework annually, adjusting its coverage of key climate issues, as well as the contents […]
Manifest Climate’s Disclosure Benchmark Review
Manifest Climate’s inaugural Disclosure Benchmark Review provides an in-depth look at the current state of private sector climate disclosures. It includes a first look at the findings of Manifest Climate’s proprietary assessment models, which measure the decision-usefulness of organizations’ disclosures and their alignment with established climate reporting standards and frameworks. Manifest Climate’s review of over […]
COP27 Week Two Round-Up
The second week of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP27) saw frenzied discussions between developed and developing countries on an array of topics crucial to the success of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Ultimately, negotiations spilled beyond the summit’s scheduled end, with a bundle of agreements forged in the early hours of Sunday. […]