Get started: Gather the information required for climate reporting

The Carbon Trust

Report

How to enhance your Net Zero strategy by taking actions beyond your value chain

Introduction

Step 1: Understand beyond-value-chain actions (BVCA) 

Step 2: Fund Climate Action Beyond Your Value Chain 

Step 3: Identify relevant types of beyond-value-chain actions

Act Beyond Value Chain

Identifying your climate-related risks and opportunities is a crucial first step in gathering the information required for climate reporting

Identify, prioritize and quantify your company’s climate-related financial risks and opportunities 

Get started: Report in line with key sustainability standards and regulations

Understand the key requirements of the new global baseline for climate reporting

Report to ISSB IFRS S2

How your company can comply with the disclosure requirements of the EU’s new reporting legislation

Report to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

How to share information on your company’s impact on and approach to climate through CDP’s voluntary disclosure platform 

Report to CDP

How to report on a broad range of climate issues through the Global Reporting Initiative’s standards

Report to GRI

Your plan should set out the workable approach your company will take to achieve its Net Zero target 

Understand the requirements of Net Zero transition plan disclosure 

Draw the links between nature and climate by using the new reporting standard for nature-related financial disclosure.

Report to TNFD

Step 3: Report in line with key standards and regulations

How to prioritize, plan and implement emission reduction actions

Step 1: Understand decarbonization approaches from a macro perspective

Step 2: Explore abatement levers from a company perspective 

Step 3: Build your decarbonization roadmap

Step 4: Drive implementation through critical enablers

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Reduce

Get started: Identify the relevant climate reporting mechanisms for your company

Scan the climate reporting landscape and identify the relevant reporting mechanisms for your company 

Understand the reporting landscape

The right reporting mechanisms for your company will depend on your investor needs and local regulatory requirements

Identify the right reporting mechanisms

Once you have met disclosure requirements of regulations and standards, you may find it beneficial to make your findings accessible to other audiences 

Consider additional audiences for your reporting

Step 1: Identify the relevant reporting mechanisms for your company

Get started: climate-related aspects of sustainability reporting

Identify the material issues you need to report on

Compile information on your climate governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets  

Step 2: Gather the information required for climate reporting

Get started: Get assurance for your climate reporting

Understand what assurance is and why it is important

Identify the assurance requirements required by your chosen reporting mechanisms

Prepare your organization for external assurance

Step 4: Get assurance for your climate reporting

Understand the importance of climate-related financial risks and opportunities 

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