My timing in issuing my new draft Financial Reporting Standard on Accounting for Environmental Change was exquisite, and quite by chance. Yesterday the International Financial
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Getting proper accounting for environmental change is going to be a long slow burn, which is not what the planet can afford
My new draft Financial Reporting Standard on Accounting for Environmental Change got into AccountingWEB yesterday: I fear this one is going to be a long,
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Accounting for Environmental Change: the Corporate Accountability Network issues a new draft Financial Reporting Standard that says its time to account for net-zero
The Corporate Accountability Network is launching a new report today, which includes a draft Financial Reporting Standard for Accounting for Environmental Change. This embraces the
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The Green New Deal can offer a more secure future
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines had this post on the Green Alliance blog this week. It is shared
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Redirecting private capital towards investment in tackling climate change by changing the tax incentives for doing so is essential in the new world that we now live in
I have this letter in the FT this morning: You report that Boris Johnson is making an appeal to the Saudis to invest more in
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It’s time to integrate financial and sustainability reporting
I was pleased to note this statement issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland this week: The current sustainability reporting system is not
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Why is Johnson begging that the UK become dependent upon Saudi Arabia, with its appalling human rights record? Is it that Johnson just loves a tyrant? Or is he just stupid when all the money that we need for a green transition is readily available in the UK?
As the FT reports this morning: Boris Johnson is hoping to line up major Saudi investment in British renewable energy on a visit to Riyadh
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There are lessons to be learned from businesses pulling out of Russia, most especially when it comes to climate change
The Russian assault on Ukraine continues to shock, offend all sensibilities and create feelings of despair about the human capacity to be inhumane to others
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If we have more than £15 trillion worth of personal wealth in the UK to suggest that we cannot afford to save the planet is quite absurd
I was searching data on UK wealth yesterday, checking whether the office for National statistics had updated the information that it publishes on this issue,
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