«Climate Disclosure Standards Board
The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) is an international consortium of business and environmental NGOs. We are committed to advancing and aligning the global mainstream corporate reporting model to equate natural capital with financial capital.
We do this by offering companies a framework for reporting environmental information with the same rigour as financial information. In turn this helps them to provide investors with decision-useful environmental information via the mainstream corporate report, enhancing the efficient allocation of capital. Regulators also benefit from compliance-ready materials.
Recognising that information about natural capital and financial capital is equally essential for an understanding of corporate performance, our work builds trust and transparency needed to foster resilient capital markets. Collectively, we aim to contribute to more sustainable economic, social and environmental systems. (...)».
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This month, many companies will report on their end of year finances, and we’ll be able to see clearly who made a loss or a profit. Alongside those accounts, companies might also disclose their carbon emissions, how much energy they saved, and whether they’re using less, or more, water. But in their financials very few of those companies will have taken any account of the natural capital that enables their business to prosper. Natural capital is everything nature provides for life: air, water, and land. We derive essential services from renewable resources such as forests, which sequester carbon, prevent soil erosion and minimise flooding. Likewise, we benefit from non-renewable stocks such as oil and gas. Continue a ler.
