Resources for Directors
Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to remain competitive
The 1.5°C Business Playbook
Climate change is already harming societies and the global economy. Evidence shows that humanity is taking grave risks with the stability of the Earth’s life support system if global average surface temperature continues to rise. Reducing this risk means working together to stabilise temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. To achieve […]
Proposed Changes to the SASB Conceptual Framework & Rules of Procedures
The SASB Conceptual Framework sets out the basic concepts, principles, definitions, and objectives that guide SASB in its approach to setting standards for sustainability accounting; it provides an overview of sustainability accounting, describing its objectives and audience.
The emergence of foreseeable biodiversity-related liability risks for financial institutions: A gathering storm?
Recent economic literature identifies liability as a key category of foreseeable financial risk associated with biodiversity loss. However, it has not, to date, provided further guidance on the nature and extent of litigation and legal risks that should be considered in determining the potential materiality of relevant risks for a given financial actor or system. […]
A4S Essential Guide to Management Information
The guide has been created to support finance professionals to develop and integrate the information needed to respond to social and environmental risk and opportunity into core management information processes.Business performance is no longer solely judged in terms of financials. So, the way decisions are made, and the information upon which they are made, needs […]
Questions to Assist Non-Executive Director Oversight of Physical Climate Risk Management
The climate is changing. For corporates, this means building resilience to the risks associated with a changing climate and adjusting to new stakeholder expectations and also meeting the changing needs and demands of customers and clients as they respond to the impacts of climate change. Ensuring that companies are braced for these changes requires clear […]
Application Guidance for Climate-Related Disclosures
Despite much progress in climate-related disclosure, many contend that more work is needed to ensure that reporting on material climate-related issues is of sufficient quality and detail to support decision-making by investors and others. The current standard of mainstream reporting on climate risks and opportunities means that there is an information deficit for investors and […]