Exploring the latest developments and changes to the New Zealand climate reporting regime and standards

Examining the Proposed 2025 Amendments to Climate and Assurance Standards

Sharing the learning from the first 2 years of mandatory reporting

How can we improve the clarity and comparability of reporting?

Aligning NZ climate standards with international developments

What to expect next in relation to climate and sustainability regulation and standard-setting?

How did our approach change and develop from the fist to the second climate statements?

What costly mistakes did we make and learn from?

Sharing the beneficial practices we have developed and refined

Developing our reporting strategy and responding to potential widening of the scope of reporting include transition plans and financial estimates of risks

Refining our financial and risk reporting: Pricing climate into financial statements

From statements to action: Achieving the integration of Climate Disclosures with enterprise strategy by aligning targets, transition plans and metrics

Preparing for assurance and regulatory reviews through strong audit trail & record-keeping

Examining proposed changes to disclosure and assurance requirements for Scope 3 emissions

Developing reliable systems to capture enterprise-wide emissions data across the business value and supply chain to effectively report scope 3 emissions

Providing practical guidance on mapping value-chain emissions

Improving the methods used for reconciliation and estimation to ensure consistency and comparability

Improving the methods used for reconciliation and estimation to ensure consistency and comparability

Examining boundary setting, supplier engagement and materiality tests

Using Scope 3 reporting to drive better understanding of your value chain emissions and improve you decision-making

Forging partnerships to tackle the challenges of Scope 3 Emissions

Understanding the distinctions between physical climate risks and transition risks such as regulatory changes and market shifts in climate reporting

Aligning reporting practices with established frameworks to ensure compliance with evolving global regulations

How forward-thinking companies have embedded climate risk considerations into their overall business strategies to enhance resilience and sustainability

Strategies for adjusting climate risk assessments in real-time

Examining wow to translate physical and transition risk into financial metrics and disclosures

Building an understanding of the cross departmental (finance, risk, strategy and more) requirements to be able to credibly quantify the financial impacts of climate risk

Acting on climate risk - where are New Zealand businesses in making the investments that will enable us to address, mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change - how do you actually move forward in a competitive environment and make that investment?

Developing board capability and bridging current oversight gaps: How can teams support directors to become fluent in climate risks and opportunities so that oversight of disclosure processes is effective?

Achieving alignment with core business strategy and ensuring disclosures are tied to capital allocation and risk appetite and not siloed within the work sustainability teams

Integrating formal climate change responsibilities into Board or Board Committee Terms of Reference and role descriptions

How can we address a lack of integration of climate performance into executive remuneration?

Exploring ESG reputational risk: What keeps boards awake?

Examining Investor perspectives on the quality and value of sustainability and environmental reporting and climate disclosures

Understanding investor stewardship priorities,- sharing the findings from recent investor surveys on NZ investor expectations

Understanding climate investing – what are the drivers and barriers?

Ensuring that voice of finance and investors is heard and contributes to a policy framework that supports investment into climate solutions and aligns with the net zero transition

Developing a practical checklist for disclosures that signal credibility to capital markets

Recognising change in the global landscape around sustainability – the politicisation of ESG in the USA v the continued rapid evolution and deepening of climate policy, regulation and reporting across the EU, UK, Australia, Canada – what does mean for businesses in NZ looking to trade in these jurisdictions?

What are the signals we are seeing so far from business, capital and major companies around the world in response?

A practical guide for exporters to the key global climate disclosure and sustainability reporting frameworks

Examining the role of assurance and accreditation in enabling market access for NZ companies

How to ensure you have on the best and right fit globally recognised accreditation for your ESG reporting

Understanding what businesses need to prepare for as regulations converge and align across borders

What is the interplay with ISSB/AASB/IFRS developments - how will this influence how NZ’s standards may change?

Exploring how the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is working to develop a global baseline of comparable and consistent sustainability disclosures and information around sustainability-related risk

Tackling the impact of business on nature and biodiversity - what is the role of business in this space?

Understanding how global regulatory frameworks are making it critical for companies to accelerate their action on the biodiversity agenda:

Examining the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Exploring The Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Strategies businesses can use to reduce their biodiversity impact

Undertaking natured based accounting and assessing natured based business risk

Delivering guidance for organisations on how to measure and manage and report their nature-based impacts, material dependencies and impacts in order to align with the TNFD