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Climate risk management is a process for incorporating knowledge and information about climate-related events, trends, forecasts and projections into decision making to increase or maintain benefits and reduce potential harm or losses. It is a multidisciplinary activity that calls for an integrated consideration of socioeconomic and environmental issues.

This guide aims to bring together elements of best practice for risk management, to prompt boards to consider how to discharge responsibilities in relation to existing and emerging principal risks faced. It also aims to reflect sound business practice, whereby risk management and internal control are embedded in the business process, and to highlight related reporting responsibilities.

This General Verification Protocol (GVP) presents the verification requirements for The Climate Registry’s voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting program. This standardized approach defines a verification process that promotes the completeness, consistency, comparability, accuracy and transparency of emissions data reported to The Registry.

This paper is an information guide for businesses interested in understanding natural capital as a business risk and a material issue. It outlines how materiality definitions are changing to include natural capital and encourages business reporting to follow suit. Changes to natural capital is a potential physical risk associated with climate change.

This guide is designed to facilitate preparation, presentation and review of a useful MD&A report in Canada. The purpose of the MD&A is to provide a narrative explanation of how a company has performed in the past, its financial condition and its future prospects, including a discussion of the current and anticipated environment, risks & trends that could impact the company.

The paper describes the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA), a sector-based target-setting methodology for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the latest scientific scenario that would limit global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

The SASB develops and maintains sustainability accounting standards that help public corporations disclose financially material information to investors in a cost-effective and decision-useful format. Standards are industry-specific and can be downloaded from their website.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an interactive online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world.

Global Forest Watch Fires (GFW Fires) is an online platform for monitoring and responding to forest and land fires in the ASEAN region using near real-time information. GFW Fires can empower people to better combat harmful fires before they burn out of control and hold accountable those who may have burned forests illegally.

This synthesis report distills and integrates the findings of the three Working Group contributions to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most comprehensive assessment of climate change undertaken thus far by the IPCC.

The Energy Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) tool allows energy decision makers and planners to conduct a comprehensive and integrated assessment of the major energy challenges of the 21st century and, in so doing, to make more informed choices about the sustainable energy development pathways on which they will embark in the future.

This article examines how growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a changing climate is increasingly seen as a major risk for the global economy.