CDSB Managing Director Mardi McBrien says reporting will need to play a key part in the world achieving the World Business Council’s Vision2050 strategy.
Written by Mardi McBrien, Managing Director of CDSB
Following the release of the new CDSB Water Guidance, we caught up with investors, companies, and NGOs to discuss water-related financial disclosure at the World Water Week.
The Water Guidance offers companies a means of developing their reporting practices and ensuring that investors are receiving the information needed to drive the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and water secure economy.
The UK’s consultation to implement the TCFD in its mandatory requirements means that it could be the first G20 country to implement the Task Force’s recommendations.
CDSB’s Managing Director, Mardi McBrien, introduced the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) at the IBM Think Summit Australia & New Zealand.
The third consecutive review of environmental and climate-related disclosures in Europe shows signs of improvement, but the information remains insufficient for investment decision-making.
CDSB welcomes mandatory implementation of climate risk disclosures using the TCFD recommendations across major sections of the UK economy by 2025
29th October 2020 – The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has today endorsed efforts by the world’s most widely used ESG standards and the IFRS Foundation to align sustainability reporting globally.
What is the Enhanced Reporting Europe campaign?
CDSB reaffirms its commitment to support New Zealand businesses and the market in implementing these new requirements.
Natural capital disclosure is still in its nascence, despite the fact that businesses and their investors have already been exposed to its financial impacts. For the financial sector to be able to take natural capital into account, they need nature-related financial information from the businesses they invest in.
How can we advance the integration of climate-related matters into financial reporting? CDSB's Technical Manager, Sundip Jadeja, shares insight into the work of the Technical Working Group on Climate Accounting Standards.
Ricardo, a global strategic engineering and environmental consultancy that specialises in the transport, energy and scarce resources sectors, outlined four steps to strengthen climate-related disclosure in line with the TCFD Recommendations.
ACCA, Accountancy Europe, Association of German Banks (BdB), CDSB, EFAMA, Frank Bold, IIGCC, Schroders, ShareAction, WWF have decided to form an informal group on Sustainable Finance. The group is used as a platform for collaboration and coordination and can serve in the future as a useful forum for further interactions with the EU institutions.
CDSB's Policy Manager, Axelle Blanchard shares key takeaways and useful resources from the launch of CDSB’s latest analysis of environmental and climate-related disclosure by Europe’s major companies.
Follow the 9 steps as outlined in the TCFD to-do list to ensure that you are making effective TCFD aligned disclosures.
Ambitious goals are underpinned by collaboration with the private sector and initiatives to support implementation.
Company management reports found lacking key environmental and climate information, with French and UK companies most in line with EU regulation.
In the past year, CDSB ran a series of webinars and workshops to raise awareness on the TCFD recommendations and climate risk disclosures. This infographic shows some of the key themes that emerged from the conversations with our audience.
Between October and March, we held a number of interactive workshops on the TCFD recommendations and climate risks to provide some guidance on the topic and gather feedback on the significant challenges that organizations are facing on this journey.
Scenario analysis presents one of the biggest challenges organizations are facing when reporting climate information following the TCFD recommendations. Here are a few tips to get you started.
The first online platform dedicated to the latest resources, tools and insights on the TCFD recommendations.
Mardi McBrien writes her personal reflections on the past 10 years of CDSB, highlighting the key achievements of the organisation.
On 31st January, the EU High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG) released its recommendations for Financing a Sustainable European Economy. This is a summary of and initial reactions to its recommendations around TCFD implementation.
CDSB's new discussion paper looks at the application of materiality to climate-related financial disclosures, highlighting the main challenges and potential strategies for materiality determination
Simon Messenger, Managing Director at CDSB, rounds up the key highlights and announcements of from the One Planet Summit, with some personal reflections
Following our webinar on directors' duties and liabilities around climate risk, we summarize some of the most recent developments in this space.
The users of the CDSB framework at a glance: 374 companies in 32 countries, across 10 sectors
CDSB is organising a series of capacity building workshops and webinars to support rapid, high-quality implementation of the TCFD recommendations.
A group of ten companies across seven sectors become the first companies to make the commitment to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures within three years
The World Resources Institute (CDSB's Board Member) developed the first-ever comprehensive methodology to measure and report potential emissions from oil, gas and coal reserves
CDSB's newsletter rounds up the key updates from our network and our most recent work
This paper is designed to drive conversations about how companies can use the accounting standards to deliver on the TCFD recommendations, focusing mainly on IFRS 7 and 9
Here is what companies can do now to get ahead of the pack and prepare for the new reporting cycle.
Prof. Carol Adams, member of CDSB's Technical Working Group, shares her views on the Task Force recommendations and harmonisation in the reporting world
Businesses across the globe are about to make “climate disclosure” and “climate risk” this year’s buzzwords.
Navigating the technicality of the over 200 pages of the report is a daunting task. This factsheet presents the answers to 20 questions we know will be crucial to understand why the work of the Task Force matters and how organizations can implement the recommendations.
With a few weeks left until the official release of the draft set of recommendations for companies to disclose climate-related financial information, we round up the main questions that will help you understand what they mean and why this matters.
The TCFD has stipulated that it is focused on financial risks related to climate change, but what does this mean? CDSB Founding Director Lois Guthrie considers this in the second part of our TCFD series.
At the start of New York Climate Week 2016, CDSB and CDP reflect on the Task Force for Climate related Financial Disclosures and the role of the reporting community in supporting the successful implementation of their recommendations.
In the first of a 4 part series, Lois Guthrie considers some of the questions that might be on the minds of TCFD members.
