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Carney and Bloomberg claim early progress on climate change reporting

But the pair concede few as yet are publishing 'useful' information on CO2 emissions and strategy

L-R: Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney of the Task Force for Climate Related Disclosures, speak alongside Axa chief executive Thomas Buberl, at last year's One Planet Summit event in Paris
L-R: Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney of the Task Force for Climate Related Disclosures, speak alongside Axa chief executive Thomas Buberl, at last year's One Planet Summit event in Paris Photo: Getty Images

A “majority” of the world’s companies are reporting their CO2 emissions and climate change strategy at least partially in line with Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg’s high-profile effort to get them to do so, according to a progress update from the initiative.

However, the organisation also said that compliance with all its recommendations was far from widespread, many companies confined climate disclosures to corporate-sustainability reports rather than providing hard financial figures, and “further work is needed” to produce more “decision-useful” climate information.

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