On 31st January 2022, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) was consolidated into the IFRS Foundation to support the work of the newly established International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). While this site and its resources remain relevant for preparers looking to improve sustainability disclosure until such time as the ISSB issues its IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards on such topics, no further work or guidance will be produced or published by CDSB. For further information please visit the IFRS website.

Task Force

Webinar: A Practical Guide to Climate Disclosures

Hosted by C2ES, this webinar focuses on frameworks developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) to facilitate the implementation of TCFD recommendations.

Webinar: Scenario analysis case studies

Following a webinar discussing the first steps of getting started with scenario analysis, this session takes a deeper dive by discussing 2 cases studies of how companies have undertaken their scenario analyses. The case studies are presented by South Pole.

Webinar: TCFD scenario analysis – First steps

This webinar provides practical information and first steps for companies who have publicly committed to implement the TCFD recommendations. We will attempt to assist companies starting to understand how scenario analysis applies to their business, provide some guidance on scenario analysis within the context of the overall disclosure recommendations as well as signposts to useful support resources.

Webinar: The significance of climate related risks and new recommendations for financial disclosure

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has partnered with the Climate Disclosure Standards Board to bring you this webinar to explore the latest developments in climate-related financial disclosure. The webinar provides an overview of why including climate change related-risks in financial disclosures is becoming more mainstream, and what this might mean for the accounting profession.

Webinar: How to prepare for the TCFD recommendations

Following the release of the final report of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations, companies may wish to explore how they might implement them effectively. We heard from a series of experts who provided a deeper view on the issues companies need to take into account to report climate-related financial information for the first time, starting from a checklist of practical steps companies can take now and looking at some of the accounting challenges that will arise.

Infographic: What organisations have said about the TCFD

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.

Webinar: Materiality and the TCFD

Following the release of our discussion paper "Materiality and climate-related financial disclosures", we hosted this webinar to discuss the key challenges we identified for the application of materiality to climate-related financial disclosures, highlighting potential strategies for materiality determination.

TCFD Knowledge Hub to be launched in Spring 2018

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures will be working with CDSB to develop a knowledge hub to better support companies interested in implementing its recommendations.

Climate risk and TCFD event series

CDSB is organising a series of capacity building workshops and webinars to support rapid, high-quality implementation of the TCFD recommendations.

June newsletter: TCFD special edition

This special edition of CDSB's newsletter rounds up key information on the TCFD recommendations and how companies can begin implementation

Defining 'material' climate risks

How can organizations categorize the unpredictable, long-term impacts of a changing climate as specific financial risks? Prof. Robert Eccles and Lois Guthrie explore the issue of climate risk materiality

Factsheet: a guide to the Task Force Recommendations

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.

Mark Carney appoints Michael Bloomberg as Climate Disclosure Task Force Chair

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board and CDP welcome the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) announcement today at COP21 of the formation of an industry-led Climate Disclosure Task Force (CDTF) which will bring together best practice climate disclosure under the chairmanship of Michael R. Bloomberg.