Voluntary Corporate Climate Change Accounting, Reporting and Benchmarking: A useful supplement to conventional policy instruments?

The corporate sector is a major source of anthropogenic carbon emissions (more than 40 per cent of total) and will be heavily affected by global climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. As a result, there is a growing demand - from companies, investors and other stakeholders - to understand corporate exposure to climate change risks and to evaluate corporate performance in managing them.

This demand has given rise to a variety of voluntary reporting and evaluation initiatives, such as the Carbon Disclosure Project|, Climate Counts| and Brand Emissions|.

This seminar asked:

• What is the value of these initiatives?
• Can they play a useful role in accelerating corporate action on climate change?
• What challenges do they face?

Part of CCCEP's 2009-2010 Seminar Series at the University of Leeds.

Chair: Professor Andy Gouldson|, Director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Speaker: Dr Craig Mackenzie|, Director for the Centre for Business and Climate Change, Edinburgh University

Date: 2 February 2010