Climate change

Accounting organizations and firms are making plans to attend or contribute research in conjunction with the United Nations COP28 climate change conference in Dubai this week.

Companies are finding it difficult to hire enough qualified people in the relatively new field of sustainability reporting.

Organizations are preparing themselves to comply with the SEC's climate-related disclosure rule, according to a new survey.

An investigation found significant flaws in accounting behind carbon credits from Zimbabwe-based Kariba.

The association is cautioning accountants about the risk of greenwashing when reporting on a company's environmental efforts.

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is seeing more than half of companies issuing at least a handful of the disclosures it recommends.

The 2022 law created two new credit delivery mechanisms, allowing governments, nonprofits and other entities to take advantage of the credits.

The Treasury Department is in the midst of writing rules for how it will distribute the measure's tax credits from hydrogen projects to low-carbon aviation fuel, but work on that guidance could grind to a halt if the government closes.

Accounting firms are getting more involved in sustainability reporting and assurance around the world, with recent global standards and record-setting temperatures spurring calls for action.

Anxiety is growing over the pace of work to develop critical guidance on a slew of clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.