Climate change

Deloitte plans to bolster its advisory, assurance, audit, consulting, finance and tax services and equip its 345,000 professionals with related skills.

The CSO is the hot new spot in the C-suite, but there’s little consensus over the job description, qualifications or even the goals.

Kurt Sartorius will paddle the Rio Madre to survey deforestation and bring awareness to what the profession can do to fight climate change.

The IFRS Foundation is teaming up with CPA Canada to set up a Montreal center for the new board, in addition to a location in Frankfurt, Germany.

The West Virginia senator is calling on the commission to reconsider a plan to require companies to disclose information about their greenhouse gas pollution.

The board unveiled two proposed standards for general sustainability-related and specific climate-related disclosure requirements.

The commission’s proposed rule would involve accountants and auditors more heavily in their clients’ efforts to provide assurance on sustainability reporting.

The competing sustainability standard-setters have come under increasing pressure in recent years to do more to align their sometimes conflicting standards.

The commission issued a 500-plus-page proposed rule Monday that would mandate corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.

The commission unveiled an eagerly awaited proposed rule on climate risk disclosures that public companies would need to start including in their registration statements and periodic reports.