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03 Jul 2020

Four steps to a stronger TCFD disclosure

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.
03 Jun 2020

Is the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive falling short of its intended goals?

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.
28 Apr 2020

New EU renewed sustainable finance strategy: challenges and opportunities

As the EU’s new strategy for a sustainable financial system is debated in Brussels, CDSB’s Policy Manager Axelle Blanchard identifies some challenges and opportunities of this important initiative.
31 Mar 2020

EU Green Deal and NFRD review: Will the EU manage to turn strategies into actions and move towards more consistent and comparable non-financial reporting?

As the new European Commission is currently implementing the priorities set out in the 11 December Communication on the European Green Deal, CDSB’s Policy Manager, Axelle Blanchard, gives insight into the first round of feedback from stakeholders from the initial inception impact assessment consultation on the NFRD review.
18 Mar 2020

A snapshot on water-related disclosures: What are companies reporting in their annual reports?

With World Water Day just around the corner on Sunday 22 March 2020, CDSB’s Technical Manager, Francesca Recanati, shares a snapshot of current practices in water-related reporting by companies.
10 Mar 2020

Tips for making effective environmental disclosures under the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive

Following the launch of the EU Environmental Reporting Handbook, CDSB's project manager, Gemma Clements, shares four essential tips on how to disclose environmental information in line with reporting requirements in Europe.
03 Feb 2020

Second time lucky? How to make the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive work this time around

Mardi McBrien, CDSB's Managing Director, outlines how the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) should be rewritten to make it work for investors.
31 Jan 2020

Scope 4: do we need a new category of emissions to better address corporate climate action?

CDSB's Technical Working Group member, Jarlath Molloy, investigates whether the progress being made by companies to reduce their greenhouse (GHG) emissions has been overlooked to date and what a solution could be.
08 Jan 2020

Which ESG issues are most important to corporate sustainability?

Recent research by CDSB and WBCSD has found 40 ESG issues key to corporate sustainability, including 10 emergent issues. Here we present the findings of the research and offer helpful tips to companies on how they can better report against them.
18 Nov 2019

8 ambitious ways to improve your non-financial reporting practices

CDSB, WBCSD and RY discuss their top tips for enhancing corporate reporting based on the findings of Reporting Matters 2019.

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