Monitoring and reporting

With extensive expertise chairing multiple FTSE350 boards, as an investor and pension fund trustee, Chapter Zero Supporting Chair Sarah Bates shares her top five tips for this annual reporting season.

This Deloitte blog looks specifically at the interaction between CFD and TCFD requirements, what it means for companies caught by both, and what changes CFD implies for TCFD.

An Accenture blog on the 2022 TCFD progress report for banks.

Chapter Zero recently organised a series of two roundtables for Audit Committee Chairs and members in partnership with Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) to explore forward planning, effective communication, and an understanding of emerging requirements for Audit Committees to drive climate action on boards.  With expert input from A4S, the second session focused on transition planning and the changing sustainability reporting landscape. These are two topics that are critical for Audit Committees to keep ahead of, and you can find the key takeaways from the second session below.

In September 2023, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) published its final Recommendations for businesses and financial institutions to disclose material interactions with nature. This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative, explains what these recommendations mean for you as a board director and key questions to ask in the boardroom.

In 2023, Chapter Zero organised a series of two roundtables for Audit Committee Chairs and members in partnership with Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) to explore forward planning, effective communication, and an understanding of emerging requirements for Audit Committees to drive climate action on boards.  With expert input from A4S, the first session focused on external reporting requirements and internal audit and assurance controls. These are two key topics that continue to evolve and are critical for Audit Committees to keep ahead of, and you can find the key session takeaways below.

A UKEB analysis of 2022 UK Company Annual Reports: A Study in Connectivity.

The world’s material circularity currently stands at 7.2% - having decreased from the 8.6% material circularity recorded for 2020 and the 9.1% for 2018. This WBCSD research provides a practical example of the data flows that may exist and be utilized to enable a circular economy across four sectors.

This working paper sets out research in progress by Bank of England staff. They explore the determinants of firm disclosures by creating a unique, firm-level panel data set on climate-related disclosures of UK financial institutions.

Watch Deloitte's discussion into the TNFD disclosure recommendations, including how they may be used to inform future standard setting and regulations, alongside considering the actions companies can take now to integrate nature and biodiversity into decision-making and reporting.

Year-end climate related reporting for listed companies: Do you know the essential questions to ask your management team? This EY UK video explores the topic.

In collaboration with Deloitte, we discussed the current climate and ESG reporting requirements with observations on reporting best practice. Some of the key issues for boards to consider over the coming months and to factor into your year-end accounts’ disclosures were also shared.