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Preparing For Australia's Mandatory Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

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Mandatory climate disclosure is coming to Australia. Businesses should see these new regulatory requirements as an opportunity to use climate reporting to drive business value.

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Izabela Szewczul

START SMALL AND START NOW

Many companies wait until mandatory climate reporting is imminent to pull together a tick-box governance and reporting process: hastily determining risks, adding a few points to their risk register and devising adaptation strategies that are not given enough scrutiny and due diligence to deliver business value. At FTI Consulting, we advise our clients to start preparing for climate reporting as soon as possible, even if a company is not required to report for a couple of years. Climate risk management requires every level of an organisation to be prepared, involving education, training and whole-of-business engagement on how climate risks and opportunities can be tackled.

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