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Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

Patrick Hanrahan — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:01:18 +0000

31 Jan 2022

It is now time to turn our legacy over to the new home: the IFRS Foundation - Mardi McBrien

For CDSB, it’s “mission achieved”

Patrick Hanrahan — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:43:31 +0000

26 Jan 2022

Paul Simpson, CDSB Board Member and CEO of CDP

Building the TCFD Knowledge Hub

Enock Chinyenze — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:36:19 +0000

29 Jan 2022

Creating the TCFD Knowledge Hub has been one of my greatest achievements and, hopefully, a legacy that will continue long after I have left CDSB. The idea for the Hub came in 2017 from our Managing Director, who came back from an external meeting and announced to the team that we should create an online platform to support the implementation of the TCFD. We planned for a central repository to bring some order to the overwhelming amount of guidance, research and resources that were starting to be published in the wake of the TCFD recommendations.

CDSB’s hidden hero: Michael Zimonyi

Enock Chinyenze — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:16:20 +0000

28 Jan 2022

Often when people talk about CDSB they talk about the leaders. For most of the organisation’s existence, CDSB has been a small Secretariat under 5 people. Lois Guthrie, CDSB’s Founding Director and I often said we ran the company on fairy dust, a little magic and a lot of coffee.

Looking back at CDSB

Patrick Hanrahan — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:08:24 +0000

19 Jan 2022

In this article Founding Director Lois Guthrie remembers some of CDSB's key moments

We can’t afford fragmented financial reporting

Enock Chinyenze — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:56:25 +0000

24 Nov 2021

Hundreds of billions of dollars each year are spent on our fragmented financial reporting system. With CDSB’s announcement that it will sunset early next year and converge to form the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), it is worth reflecting upon the foundational work CDSB and the sustainability reporting community have been involved in across the years, and how a great deal of it remains relevant to the future work of the ISSB.

We filled a gap for 15 years, now the ISSB will take us the rest of the way

Patrick Hanrahan — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:06:50 +0000

16 Nov 2021

Wednesday, 3 November, was a historic day at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The news of the ISSB resonated globally...

Connecting CEO legacy, GHG emissions, climate in-action and mainstream reports

Patrick Hanrahan — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:45:38 +0000

15 Nov 2021

In this article the carbon footprint idea comes full circle to big polluters and the CEO’s who are accountable.

6 characteristics of biodiversity assessment corporates need to know

Enock Chinyenze — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:40:49 +0000

11 Nov 2021

Climate change is a human-induced phenomenon that has been etched in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Businesses are rolling out a barrage of actions to reduce emissions and conform to climate-risk disclosure regulations. With corporates grappling to meet their net-zero targets, new talk of nature-related risk disclosures, such as biodiversity, may seem overwhelming.

You can’t opt out of financial reporting, so why does it continue to be okay to opt out of reporting financially material sustainability risks?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:56:37 +0000

26 Oct 2021

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.

TCFD Status Report – Following the brick road to better disclosures

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:33:29 +0000

14 Oct 2021

Written by Mardi McBrien, Managing Director of CDSB

Water risks: why investors care about sustainability

Enock Chinyenze — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:46:08 +0000

29 Sep 2021

Heatwaves and droughts are some of the effects of climate change that have become evident in recent years. The intensity and frequency of these occurrences has increased. But since these events are not new, it could be years before some people are motivated to address climate change. While the effects of climate change may therefore seem far removed, water-related risks are widespread. Water is arguably the medium through which we feel the effects of climate change most.

How to prevent biodiversity loss through value chain tracking

Enock Chinyenze — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:28:27 +0000

13 Sep 2021

Food production is the primary cause of global biodiversity loss (60-70%). At the same time, approximately one third of the food produced (1.3 billion tonnes) is wasted along the supply chain. Food waste increases pressure on agriculture and therefore drives biodiversity loss. Finding efficient ways to track value chains can reduce food waste.

World Water Week recap: Can better disclosure solve the water crisis?

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:13:33 +0000

27 Aug 2021

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.

3 water-related impacts to business you hadn’t thought of

Enock Chinyenze — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:32:29 +0000

08 Jul 2021

Over 2 billion people live in countries with high water stress levels. Global water use has more than doubled in the last 40 years. Coupled with the effects of climate change, the strain intensifies. Businesses are already experiencing financially-material impacts related to competition of water resources and its associated degradation of ecosystems.