Australian shareholders should be told of climate risk to profits, says thinktank
by Gareth Hutchens from on (#397NT)
Centre for Policy Development urges companies to adopt standardised analysis of climate's impact on business
Australian companies need to start developing sophisticated scenario-based analyses of climate risks, and incorporating them into their business outlooks so shareholders know how climate change will affect profitability, a thinktank has said.
However, the Centre for Policy Development (CPD) said companies needed to do so in a standardised way, so investors and regulators were able to easily understand economy-wide risks to whole industries.
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