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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

They recognized that without reliable climate-related financial information, assets could be mispriced and capital could be misallocated, meaning the global economy potentially could face a tumultuous transition to a low-carbon future. So, the TCFD was born. Out of 727 companies headquartered in the U.S.

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TNFD: A Pivot Point for Nature

Chris Hall

The final version was set up to address the information gap between various firms’ interactions with biodiversity in nature and the impacts on financial performance and longer-term financial risks.

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ISSB’s First Sustainability Reporting Standards Target Granularity

Chris Hall

“By building on the TCFD’s framework, the ISSB’s climate proposals will create further consistency, comparability and reliability across climate disclosure so investors can make more informed financial decisions,” said Mary Schapiro, Head of the TCFD Secretariat. .

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In Defence of Corporate Climate Action

We Mean Business Coalition

Recent research (scientific-peer-reviewed, unlike many of those recent reports attacking corporate climate action) by the University of Münster definitively established the positive link between corporate carbon emissions performance and corporate financial performance.