Climate change is likely to drive some of the most profound changes to businesses in our lifetimes.
Impacts on products and services, supply chains, loss of asset values and market dislocation are already being caused by more frequent and severe climate-related events. These effects are now compounded by the accelerating pace of policy and regulatory change as humanity recognises the challenge we face and the drastic and rapid actions we all must take in order to protect our planet and our own livelihoods.
Discover how to think through the challenges and futureproof your business through learning, interviews and resources.
The time to act is now!
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Learning
Context / Awareness
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Why climate change is an issue for humanity
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Why climate change is a current issue for business
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Why it’s time for businesses to adapt
Implementation
Interviews
Perspectives from drivers of climate action
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Dr Emily Shuckburgh
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Russell Picot
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Julie Baddeley
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Emily Farnworth
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Jo Paisley
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Hans Hoogervorst
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Perspectives from drivers of climate action: Catherine Howarth
Links to additional resources
Science and status updates
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Corporate edit of the Netflix Our Planet series
- BBC Climate change the facts documentary
- International Energy Agency page on climate change
- United Nations page on climate change
- CDP Global Climate Change Report
Frameworks and guidance
- TCFD status report 2019
- A4S TCFD Top Tips booklet
- Recommendations of the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- World Economic Forum (WEF): How to set up effective climate governance on corporate boards guiding principles and questions
- Deloitte, Thinking Allowed – Climate related disclosure
- CDSB / SASB work on implementation of TCFD
- Ceres, Setting the Bar: Implementing the TCFD Recommendations for the Oil and Gas Industry
- CPA Canada resources on adapting to climate change, including questions directors should ask
- BSR, Climate change and supply chain the business case for action
- WBCSD’s project on climate and energy
- Science Based Targets
- ICAEW resources and materials on climate change
Role of the investor and capital markets
- UNEP Finance Initiative
- PRI - Implementing the TCFD recommendations - A guide of asset owners
- Network for Greening the Financial System
- ClientEarth website
- Climate Action 100+ website
- The IOSCO Statement on Disclosure of ESG Matters by Issuers, 18 January 2019
- PRA supervisory statement SS3/19 - Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing the financial risks from climate change
- The 2018 Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change
- Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) voting guidelines
- Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) voting guidelines
- A new horizon: speech by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, March 2019
- Climate change: no longer the elephant in the room
- HRH The Prince of Wales’s Message to World Congress of Accountants 2018
- Climate Risk Management at financial firms: A good start, but more work to do
- Climate Risk Management at financial firms: Challenges and opportunities
Key contacts
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Veronica Poole
UK Head of Accounting and Corporate Reporting, Deloitte
+44 (0)20 7007 0884
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Sam Baker
Partner, Deloitte Monitor, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Deloitte
+44 (0)20 7303 7016
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Mike Barber
Partner, Sustainability Services, Deloitte
+44 (0)20 7007 3031
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Alison Dundjerovic
Technical Manager, Financial Reporting Thought Leadership, ICAEW
+44 (0)20 7920 8502
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Nigel Sleigh-Johnson
Head of Financial Reporting, Audit and Assurance, ICAEW
+44 (0)20 7920 8793
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