Sustainability

• UK body provides finance sector climate-related risks guide

  A new guide for the UK’s financial industry offers guidance on risk management, scenario analysis, disclosures, and innovation.

• Strategies for embedding climate reporting

  Unilever’s finance team has been at the forefront of moves to create a level playing field for climate-related financial disclosures.

• The trouble with tyres

  Scrap tyres contain valuable materials that can be extracted for new uses. But there’s also demand to turn them into cheap fuel through a process that can have harmful effects.

• Accounting profession leaders call for action against climate change

  Leaders of the accounting profession across the world made a united stand in calling for accountants to put their skills to work to help businesses fight climate change.

• A look at the Natural Capital Protocol

  Finance departments will increasingly need to account for the natural world as part of their strategic mandate. One framework offers a way to identify risks and opportunities amidst the change.

• Inspecting the ‘crop’

  Take a look at a solar farm and the state of renewable energy.

• Farming gets vertical

  Under efficient LED lighting, leafy greens are an environmentally friendly food source grown indoors in containers stacked several stories high.

• Finance’s role in accounting for climate change

  Accountants and finance professionals have an outsized role in supporting informed discussions on climate change risks.

• Demand for sustainability assurance is growing

  Seventy percent of companies participating in a survey by The Conference Board that obtain assurance on their sustainability information said the need for such assurance will increase over the next five years.

• Climate-related reporting frameworks highly aligned

  Assessed against TCFD’s recommendations, report shows GRI, SASB, CDP, CDSB, and IIRC standards have high levels of agreement.

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