Introduction to Sustainability Reporting

With mandatory climate reporting edging closer, sustainability is on the agenda for businesses in the UK. Whether your organisation is working to meet incoming compliance obligations or taking a strategic approach to sustainability reporting, embarking on a sustainability journey can seem overwhelming.

Aletta Boshoff, BDO’s National Leader for Sustainability, will share the steps to activating sustainability through key measurements, relevant climate-related disclosures, and sharing the best-practice roadmap to success.

Topics Covered:

  • Introduction to sustainability reporting
  • Difference between compliance-based and strategic approaches to sustainability
  • Measuring your carbon footprint with Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
  • Differing climate-related disclosures, and when they are relevant to you

Benefits & Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand what a sustainability strategy is and why it’s important
  • Define your sustainability imperative
  • Identify your obligations for sustainability reporting in the short to long-term
  • Meet your broader stakeholder needs with transparent sustainability communication
  • How to get started

CPD hours: 1.5
Price: IFA members & affiliates - £49
          Non-members - £59

 

 

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About the speaker 

Aletta Boshoff

Aletta is an Advisory Partner and National Leader of IFRS & Corporate Reporting, as well as the National Leader of Sustainability, at BDO in Australia.

Aletta has over 30 years’ experience in financial reporting and accounting, including IFRS. Aletta has lectured on financial accounting and reporting at various Australian and South African universities. As an Associate Professor, she authored various financial reporting and accounting textbooks. Aletta also spent a number of years as a Project Manager at the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB).