Your Company's Next Leader on Climate Is…The CFO

Can accountants save the planet? Yes, predicted Peter Bakker of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in 2012, and now CFOs are stepping up. Feeling the squeeze from inside and out—internal cost pressures, external reporting expectations—more and more finance chiefs are overseeing creation of internal carbon markets, incorporating climate risks into financial disclosures, issuing “certified climate bonds,” and so on.