The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation has this week announced further consolidation plans between global sustainability reporting standard setters.
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International accounting standards group Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) is seeking input from corporate finance and investment chiefs on trends and views on the evolving ESG investment landscape.
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Over 70% of listed, high-polluting companies around the world failed to adequately account for climate-related risks in their financial statements last year, according to research coordinated by the Climate Accounting Project (CAP) and issued by Carbon Tracker.
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One in three applicants to the UK’s Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Stewardship Code did not meet the required standard, owing to shortcomings in evidence and relying too heavily on policy.
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UK-based asset owners have warned that the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) portfolio alignment proposals could undermine efforts to transition to a low carbon economy.
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Tech giants resist adding ESG to financial reports June 25, 2021 Leading global tech groups are resisting plans to include ESG disclosures in financial statements to US regulators. Tech giants including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook have written to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warning of the complexity and potential legal risk of combining […]
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CDP attracts record support for environmental reporting work June 25, 2021 The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has attracted record support for its 2021 campaign for corporate environmental reporting. The non-profit group said this week that 168 investors and financial institutions were backing this year’s campaign. The investment groups, which between them have assets under management […]
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FCA signals the expansion of climate disclosure rules June 25, 2021 The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published plans to extend climate-related disclosures to all companies listed on London’s main stock market as well as to all asset managers, life insurers and pension providers that it regulates. Companies with a premium listing in the […]
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Investors managing $2.9 trillion worth of assets have written to US congressional leaders calling on them to back a new law to improve tax transparency
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Not-for-profit sustainability advocacy organization Ceres is urging companies and investors to get behind its campaign for more disclosure on carbon footprints.
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