The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has published its 2021 Status Report. It finds that disclosure in line with the TCFD’s recommendations has accelerated significantly, growing by 9% in 2019–20.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is likely to require mandatory climate disclosures as early as April next year, covering carbon emissions as well as other climate-related risks.
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) recently published its ‘Climate standard prototype’ working paper, setting out its current thinking on climate-related reporting standards. It has now released its accompanying ‘Basis for Conclusions,’ discussing the rationale behind the draft standards in substantial detail, from objectives and scope to specific climate policies, targets and metrics.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken the interesting step of publishing a sample letter, illustrating comments that the Division of Corporation Finance might make on a company’s disclosures as they relate to climate change.
François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, spoke recently at the International Conference on Statistics for Sustainable Finance, emphasising the need for good data.
It is still relatively early days, but do you want to know more about the thinking thus far as the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) works toward shared sustainability standards?
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has published a framework for implementing global sustainability standards at the local level.
The UK’s Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) rules, which came into effect from 1 April 2019, provide an interesting example of mandatory climate reporting and potential insights for other jurisdictions implementing similar regimes.
With mandatory climate and other sustainability disclosure requirements apparently gaining impetus around the globe, the latest news this week has a Pacific flavour.
The Swiss government, the Federal Council, has recently set a timeline and other parameters for mandatory climate disclosures by large companies.
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