As part of the Institute’s ongoing work on how to build an informed New Zealand through Project ReportingNZ, I sat down with a number of organisations from the financial reporting sphere during my recent trip to London. The purpose of the meetings was for me to gather expert perspectives on the nature of corporate disclosures in the United Kingdom, particularly in relation to climate change. Currently, large organisations in the UK are subject to more stringent climate-related public disclosure requirements than New Zealand companies (e.g. disclosure of GHG emissions), despite no specific requirement to report directly on climate change. Given this, and the fact that the Zero Carbon Bill is largely based on the UK’s climate change legislation, it seemed fitting to use the UK as a model for some insights into how New Zealand’s reporting framework could be strengthened to address climate change.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.mcguinnessinstitute.org/reportingnz/climate-reporting-insights-from-the-uk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-reporting-insights-from-the-uk