The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a new reporting framework that will be rolled out in a phased approach from 2024 in Europe. This new regulation is going to replace and improve the previous corporate sustainability reporting policy called Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), which some companies have already been following.
First up is Gary Davis, CEO of Ecometrica who has been working in sustainability accounting for nearly two decades and who, along with Richard Tipper MBE, helped create some of the original sustainability standards.
The Canadian Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) released their final Guidelines on Climate Risk Management on March 7th, 2023. These new requirements set out expectations for how Canadian financial institutions should manage and disclose their climate-related impacts and risks to improve resilience of the financial system. All federally-regulated financial institutions will be required to publicly disclose their climate-related governance, risk management, strategy, and metrics and targets, following the TCFD (Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures) framework.
Ecometrica, the leading climate software experts, have recently enhanced their flood risk mapping precision data by partnering with Twinn by Royal HaskoningDHV.
Ecometrica is delighted to announce that we were selected by leading global STEM staffing specialist SThree, as its sustainability software vendor of choice late last month
Significant moves are being made towards standardising climate disclosure requirements by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). They are setting out structures for robust sustainability and climate-related reporting so that they are conducted with the same rigour as financial reports. This will also globally consolidate sustainability reporting and eliminate the need to produce multiple reports for private and public regulators.
In this blog post, we have broken down the requirements to help get Canadian companies and financial institutions up to speed on their mandatory climate reporting
In this blog post, we have broken down the requirements to help get Canadian companies and financial institutions up to speed on their mandatory climate reporting
In the US, climate disclosure has been voluntary (for the majority of the market) for years. It looks like things are about to change with the U.S. SEC proposing a rule towards making climate risk disclosures mandatory.
Increasingly, companies are coming to us to measure their scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions are not straightforward to measure, but only when you include them as well as scope 1 and scope 2 in your carbon footprint, do you get a true measure of your carbon impact.
On 21 July 2022, Ecometrica demonstrated their Ghana Forest Compliance service to over 20 signatories of the Cocoa & Forest Initiative (CFI) in a webinar hosted by the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF).
Here's a handy list of questions for you to ask when you're deciding which sustainability software to choose.
