Corporate Reporting

27 Jul 2020

CDSB’s Climate Guidance marks the launch of application series

Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) released the CDSB Framework application guidance for climate-related disclosure (Climate Guidance). The release is the first in a series of guides on nature-related financial disclosure, with Water Guidance to follow early next year.
21 Jul 2020

2020: The disruption and the lasting change

Last week the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, announced that it voted against 53 companies worldwide due to lack of progress on climate concerns. CDSB’s Senior Technical Officer, David Astley, warns that the “freshness” of climate reporting phenomenon should not be mistaken for fleetingness.
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.
29 Apr 2020

CDSB’s ambitious push towards climate & nature-related financial reporting wins support from EU LIFE Programme

A four-year plan is currently underway by Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) in a bid to bring natural capital, including climate change, into the heart of financial decision-making.
05 Feb 2020

CDSB publishes changes needed to ensure successful revision of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive

Non-financial reporting must be in the management report to satisfy investor needs and ensure that the Directive on Non-Financial Reporting is fit for purpose to achieve Europe’s ambitious sustainable finance goals.
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.
19 Feb 2020

CDSB and CDP release handbook to meet challenges of environmental and climate reporting across the EU

The EU Environmental Reporting Handbook evaluates company disclosure in line with the Non-Financial Reporting Directive
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.