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January 21 2021 by Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist – G&A Institute Countries around the world are tuning in to the TCFD and exploring ways to guide the business sector to report on ever more important climate related disclosures.  Embracing of the Task Force recommendations is a key policy move by governments around […]

        Original Document: August 2017 – published in G&A’s “To the Point” Management Briefing Platform Republished on  Sustainability Update – October 2, 2019 by Hank Boerner – Chair and Chief Strategist – G&A Institute The Work of the TCFD Will Affect Your Company’s Important Financial Disclosure & Filings. And Your Relationship With […]

A Brief Checklist of the Discussion for You This Week… by Hank Boerner – Chair and Chief Strategist, G&A Institute The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 (30 years ago!) to provide a “clear scientific view of the […]

G&A recently issued the 14th edition of our annual research report on sustainability reporting trends among the largest U.S. public companies. In our Top Story this issue, G&A’s 2025 Sustainability Reporting in Focus provides detailed data and findings confirming that companies in the S&P 500 Index and the Russell 1000 index have adopted sustainability reporting […]

Corporate reporting on climate and nature risks is increasing despite resistance from the Trump administration, which continues to deny the proven science behind climate change. In an address to the General Assembly of the United Nations on Sept. 23, as reported by Reuters in one of our Top Stories this issue, Trump “dismissed climate change […]

G&A just released a new report analyzing climate disclosure trends among top suppliers to California, a first-of-its-kind examination of major suppliers to a state government. Download it here. To explain the results, we asked Gabriella Leuthner, G&A Climate Analyst and one of the report’s authors, to discuss the motivation for conducting this research and what […]

The countdown has started for the implementation of the State of California’s corporate climate disclosure rules, SB 253 and SB 261, which are coming into effect in January 2026. Companies doing business in California that meet certain revenue thresholds will need to disclose carbon emissions and climate-related financial risks, and obtain third-party assurance of their […]

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was launched in 2021 to help provide a framework for organizations to report and act on their nature-related risks and opportunities. TNFD was modeled after the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which was created in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) as a framework for […]

By Christina Carlton, Senior Sustainability Analyst – G&A Institute The demand for corporate sustainability information rises each year, with companies fielding increasingly frequent and detailed requests from customers, employees, investors, and regulators. The latest trends report by G&A Institute, published in September, shows that most Russell 1000® companies are meeting that demand. Compiling thousands of […]

Background After the results of the 2024 presidential election in the U.S., the climate community is expressing trepidation around a second Trump presidency, weighing what it could mean for climate action in the U.S. at the federal and state level, as well as corporate action and transparency on climate change.  While the U.S. has not […]