What: Eighty-nine percent of companies reporting ESG data in 2020 provided at least some information in each of four identified areas — greenhouse gases (GHG), other environmental, social, and ...

ESG disclosure rates grew from 84% in 2019 to 89% in 2021, according to the new report, and assurance rates grew from 37% in 2019 to 48% in 2021. Reporting by companies in the new jurisdictions lagged ...

Earlier this year, The Dow Chemical Company decided to change its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting verification provider. Where a verification services firm performed that work in ...

The Center for Audit Quality released its annual analysis Tuesday of ESG reporting and assurance by S&P 500 companies, based on data from 2022. It found that nearly all S&P 500 companies (98%) ...

ESG assurance providers should be ready and willing to submit to regulatory oversight. Unlike external audit, ESG assurance need not go through the prolonged and failed experiment of self-regulation.

ESG default insurance forces a company to focus on specific stakeholders, helps the earnest ESG companies to separate themselves, enables socially active investors to sue a company if it reneges ...

Third Report from IFAC and AICPA & CIMA Identifies Sustainability Trends and Progress over Three-Year SpanNEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

The escalating demand for companies to disclose their environmental, social and governance (ESG) actions – and the corresponding increase in greenwashing – has fuelled a need for independent, ...

IFAC Graphic 1 on ESG assurance Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab ($1 = 0.7353 pounds) Reporting by Simon Jessop and Huw Jones, editing by Jane Merriman.

The State of Play in Reporting and Assurance of Sustainability Information reported that only 51% of companies had ESG assurance in 2019. But that number increased to 58% in 2022.