93% of firms use a mix of ESG standards, thwarting uniformity efforts: IFAC
The spotlight on confusion from a jumble of ESG frameworks comes just days before a vote on an SEC rule aimed at ensuring uniformity in climate disclosure.
IFAC: Professional accountants’ skillset essential to organisational transformation
Emissions-Cutting Plans Missing at Nearly Half of Firms Globally
[This story is behind a paywall.] Most of the companies that lacked concrete plans to curb emissions also had no intention of developing them, the survey of 1,000 companies worldwide found. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, International Federation of Accountants, and...
46% Of Firms Have No Emissions Plan And Most Have No Intention Of Making One
Nearly half of businesses have no carbon emissions plan despite growing fears of climate disaster, research from the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and PwC has found.
Public sector needs to prepare for sustainability reporting and assurance challenge
At the World Investment Forum in Abu Dhabi on 16th October three global bodies, ACCA, IFAC and IDI launched a summary of their forthcoming introduction to sustainability and assurance in the public sector.
The importance of developing sustainability reporting standards for the public sector
Demystifying Emissions Reporting
IFAC collaboration includes greenhouse gas reporting guidance
As mandatory disclosure requirements become the norm for global organisations, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and other entities have collaborated to release new guidance for delivering robust greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting.
Green accountancy guide launched to aid 'investor-grade' greenhouse gas reporting
Reporting guide from accountancy bodies and We Mean Business comes amid tightening mandatory climate risk reporting rules worldwide
IPSASB works on public sector standards on climate
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has been developing accounting standards and guidance for public sector entities since 1986 and now it's turning its attention to climate reporting.