AI and the new sustainability standards: help or hindrance?

FW writer Tamara O’Brien digests the issues from Claire’s recent webinar on the uses and abuses of AI in sustainability reporting. Corey Walrod, from the ISSB’s technical staff, gave the inside track on the new IFRS sustainability standards;  Diana Rose, ESG Research Director at Insig AI, explained the pros and cons of common types of AI and how corporate reporters should approach them; while Adrian Clark of Royal Bank of Canada explored the uses and limitations of AI in making judgement calls about potential investments.

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With TCFD coming, how can we report well on climate risk, and why should we?

With reporting against TCFD mandatory for many in the coming reporting season, the challenges for companies of reporting on both risks and opportunities in the transition to a net zero, low-carbon world are high in everyone’s minds. Tamara O’Brien reports back from July’s Trust me, I’m listed webinar, where author Claire Bodanis hosted experts Tim Mohin of Persefoni, Annie Heaton of ArcelorMittal and Jeremy Osborn, of the Value Reporting Foundation.

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The G in ESG: “Some of this stuff is just dull!” And what to do about it

In narrative terms the governance report is often seen as the poor relation of the strategic report. But shouldn’t it tell a story too? Tamara reports back from April’s Trust me, I’m listed webinar, where author Claire Bodanis, Janice Lingwood, Corporate Reporting Consultant, Superunion and Chris Hodge, Director, Governance Perspectives discuss how the governance report could be made more engaging and meaningful, as well as compliant.

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