The US Financial Stability Board (FSB) will present its final report on the adoption of recommendations to provide a voluntary framework for disclosing climate-related information in financial filings at the G20 Summit next month in Hamburg, Germany. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created by the FSB in December 2015 and its …
The European Commission (EC) has adopted non-binding guidelines on the disclosure of non-financial information by companies which aims to help companies to disclose relevant and useful information on environmental and social matters in a consistent and comparable way. These guidelines follow on the EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large …
A group of more than 100 business leaders and companies are backing the recommendations of a task force on providing a voluntary framework for disclosing climate-related information in financial filings. The Financial Stability Board created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures nearly two years ago. It released its final report and supporting materials on …
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) welcomes the release of the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations – which uphold the key principles of Integrated Reporting – that companies should adopt an integrated approach to their risk management and that climate change is itself not simply an environmental issue, but a financial challenge …
The latest news and developments. In this newsletter published June 2017: IFAC calls on G20 governments to embrace Integrated Reporting European Commission Guidelines on Non-Financial Reporting underline encouragement towards Integrated Reporting Sharing, learning and inspiring. Have you joined the <IR> Network? Integrated Reporting becoming mainstream in Japan Academics research underpins development of Integrated Reporting You …
The 11th AMBS/LSE conference was organised by AMBS lecturers Dr Wei Jiang, Dr Alice Liang Xu and Dr Colin (Cheng) Zeng. Co-funded by the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk (CAIR) at AMBS, the LSE and the ICAEW’s charitable trusts, the one-day conference in June encouraged the search for multiple perspectives and stimulated insightful …
In an uncertain world, investors are increasingly looking for more than financial results when making investment decisions. Memories of the financial crash have cast a long shadow – even when things look good on paper, the examples of Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have shown that seemingly robust financials are not always as …
EU experts took stock of progress made so far and discussed a way forward for a European strategy for sustainable finance at recent multi-stakeholder conference jointly organised by ACCA, AVIVA, Barclays and the IIRC in Brussels. Building on work already undertaken at the international level by the G20 Green Finance Study Group and the Financial …
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) welcomes todays’ release of the European Commission’s Guidelines on Non-Financial Reporting, which references the leadership and knowledge the IIRC provided in the guideline’s development. The Non-Financial Reporting Directive provides an important impetus to 6,000 businesses across Europe to start thinking about broader value creation. At a joint IIRC, ACCA, …
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants is an <IR> Breakthrough Partner The term ‘business model’ is well-established and frequently used in the world of commerce. However, it is also a concept many people don’t give a second thought about. This can be dangerous as not understanding your business model and adapting it to market changes, …