Posts by Neil Roberts
Natural Resources Forum ESG Week webinar – Sustainability disclosures: embracing new ISSB standards in an already complex reporting environment

A step in the right direction, or a step too far? In this webinar, Claire Bodanis and fellow panellists Carol Bell, Co-Founder of Chapter Zero; Storm Taylor, ESG Lead, Vulcan Energy; and Corey Walrod, member of the ISSB Technical Committee, discuss the nitty-gritty of what IFRS Standards 1 and 2 mean for the natural resources industry.  

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The Chartered Governance Institute annual conference, ‘Governance 2021: The Next Chapter’.

At the Chartered Governance Institute’s virtual annual conference, 5-7 July, the second day saw TMIL author Claire Bodanis facilitating a discussion between company secretaries Sally Fairbairn of energy giant SSE, and Lorraine Clover of media group Reach. Two issues currently dominating reporting were on the agenda: the coming requirement to file the annual report in a taggable XHTML format, and the not-entirely-straightforward road towards a global set of ESG reporting standards.

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Practical perspectives on reporting #12: with TCFD coming, how can we report well on climate risk, and why should we?

Our expert panel represents different points of view from the reporting spectrum: Tim Mohin is EVP and Chief Sustainability Officer at Persefoni (US); Annie Heaton is Head of Sustainability Dialogue and Disclosure at ArcelorMittal; and Jeremy Osborn, Director of Business Relationships & Networks at the Value Reporting Foundation (newly created from the merger of SASB and the IIRC). With reporting against TCFD mandatory for many in the coming reporting season, we discuss the challenges for companies of reporting on both risks and opportunities in the transition to a net zero, low-carbon world.

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What next for ESG reporting? A cautious cheer for America’s SEC

Claire reports from the International Institute of Finance’s US Climate Finance Summit, with the startling (good) news that the US SEC seems to be coming round to the idea of principles-based reporting, and of a global approach, which may herald good things for new ESG reporting standards. With comments from Andy Griffiths of The Investor Forum, Mark Babington of the FRC and Prof Robert Eccles, Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.

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Practical perspectives on reporting #5: An auditor’s view: A Christmas Carol, Being a Tale of The True Meaning of Audit

’Twas the webinar before Christmas, and in a dark, chilly basement somewhere Dickensian, author Claire Bodanis, founder of Falcon Windsor; auditor Maria Kepa; and independent investment and governance expert Paul Lee gathered by lantern-light to discuss the relationship between auditors and companies in the wake of the Brydon Review. Their conversation was captured with faithful and utmost accuracy (1) by TMIL’s roving reporter, Tamara O’Brien.

(1) In our opinion this write-up gives a fair, balanced and understandable (FBU) view of the discussion and its participants thereof. A well-wisher

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ICSA Governance Conference 2020: Investor panel – In truth we trust

How should companies talk about this strangest of years in their annual reports to build trust with investors? TMIL’s roving reporter, Tamara O’Brien, reflects on a discussion between Claire Bodanis, founder of Falcon Windsor, and Nadine Windsor, Global Head of Credit Trading and Investments at First Abu Dhabi Bank, at the ICSA conference ‘Governance beyond the pandemic’.

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