News
ACCA news
- ACCA Joins Advisory Board of Climate Disclosure Standards Board
- ACCA part of technical Advisory committee to develop framework for corporations reporting climate change related issues.
- ACCA Roundtable Sustainability discussion 16 April 6.30pm - 8.00pm, 29 Lincoln Inn Fields
- To address the growing pressure on accountants to take a key and active role in policy and decision making in the field of implementing sustainability focussed accounting practices, ACCA will host a roundtable discussion for the profession.
Climate change news
- Clean tech investment rose 44 percent two years in a row to more than $5billion in 2007
- Venture capitalists, investment banks and private investors are the prime financiers for the clean tech industry with most investment going to energy generation - solar, wind and biofuels.
- HRH Prince Charles leads pension fund initiative
- HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, is spearheading a low-profile group of eight of the world's biggest pension funds known as the P8 to advance investment strategies to combat climate change.
- Leading global investors publish disclosure standards for electric utilities to aid analysis of climate change risks
- Leading international investors today published disclosure guidelines for the electric utilities sector
- Trading in Carbon emissions to boom by 2020
- Major growth in carbon market to continue as world comes to grips with equitable establishment of emissions trading regime.
- US Banks create The Carbon Principles
- US banks develop a Protocol to guide climate policy in energy development project finance and to gain market edge ahead of forthcoming US legislation which looks likely to favour carbon-cap-and-trade programmes.
Reporting and assurance news
- AA1000 Assurance Standard Revised
- Access Accounting unveil package to measure carbon footprint
- Business software house Access Accounting which Access Dimensions accounting package has teamed up with DEFRA and the Carbon Trust to develop a method for organisations to account for carbon emissions as part of operations.
- Corporate Register announce results of annual Reporting Awards
- The CR Reporting Awards 2007 are the first online CR reporting awards. The CRRA 2007 are the first of an annual programme developed to identify and acknowledge the best in corporate non-financial reporting. Winners are selected from a field of 2000 reports.
- UN Global Compact launches self assessment tool